Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember if the spring- controlled hinge would have been on the top or the bottom in 1907," he says, scratching his head. But he does know that the doors, decorated with carved vines, leaves and grapes, will bring a buck in the showroom. "In New York City, art deco was last year," he says. "Now the decorators all want Louis XV Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous sort of stuff...
...collector," he says, "but never had enough money to collect the stuff everybody else was collecting. Nobody else wanted salvage then. This stuff was made by craftsmen who worked 40 years just making shelf brackets or paneling, and bulldozers were plowing it into the ground. To me, it was art...
...Art...
...produced no new arms- control breakthroughs, Mikhail Gorbachev' s dazzling visit to Washington seemed to herald a new and more personable phase in the 40- year struggle between the U. S. and the Soviet Union. -- Vivacious and voluble, Raisa Gorbachev upstages Nancy Reagan. -- San Francisco' s newly elected mayor, Art Agnos, faces daunting problems...
From a three- volume set on Chinese painting and calligraphy that costs, yes, $850 to a $14.95 paperback on vintage radios, from America' s quilts and the world' s water birds to the Hebrew Bible in medieval illuminated manuscripts, this season' s readings celebrate the realms of art, faith, nature and entertainment in varied, sumptuous style...