Word: architects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commodity is expected to be so exclusive and yet so affordable. So personal. So emotional. "I don't think [Target executive] Ron Johnson, Martha Stewart or I would be able to talk as much about design today if it weren't for what has happened in automotive design," says architect Graves. "The world has just turned around...
...automobile right down the product chain to such simple items as trash cans. Design magazines are hot (Architectural Digest is about to launch a new publication called Motoring). Moreover, signature design is no longer the realm of the snobby, afford-anything rich. Ask Martha Stewart, or the prominent architects and furniture and car designers who swap industries these days just to give products that extra mark of distinction. Thus Hirshberg, who began his career as a Pontiac designer, is doing a newspaper. An everyman-discount store like Target, for instance, hires architect Michael Graves to design a toaster...
...year ago at age 83. "Kick 'em!" he says, and we clink our glasses and connect--more than we ever connected before. Since Mom died more than two years ago, we hug and kiss--things we never did when I was growing up and he was a workaholic architect out to change the world...
DIED. SIR HUGH CASSON, 89, British architect and former president of the Royal Academy of Arts; in London. In 1951 Casson oversaw the construction of London's first major postwar buildings. He later designed rooms at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace...
When renowned architect Michael Graves was asked over lunch two years ago whether he might want to design a line of home products for a discount-store chain, he paused. Ron Johnson, who runs the home-decor division for Target, suggested Graves stroll one of the company's 800 or so stores and place a Post-it note on every product that needed improvement. Replied the man who recently designed the award-winning Denver Central Library: "I'm not sure there are enough Post-it notes in the world...