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...given period, it has no equal. One is used to museums that get things three-quarters right and implore the visitor to be sanguine about their unrealized hopes. None of that is needed at Orsay. On every level, starting with the creative intelligence its designer, the Italian architect Gae Aulenti, has brought to the hard task of converting a dead station into a live museum and finishing with the range and stature of its collections, the museum is exemplary. It shows what state patronage can do. Nothing the private sector could summon up, in or out of France, could possibly...
...Grand Canal. Titled "Futurismo & Futurismi" ("Futurism and Its Offshoots," more or less), the exhibition marks the opening of the Societa per Azioni Palazzo Grassi (Grassi Palace Society for Actions), housed in an 18th century structure whose restoration and conversion was brilliantly carried out by the Milanese architect Gae Aulenti. The new museum, lavishly funded by Fiat, is run by Pontus Hulten, former director of the Pompidou Center in Paris...
...pulled. Says Cardin: "As I designed clothes, I found that I also had to think about the atmosphere in which to show them. That led me into designing my own boutiques, and from there it was only natural for me to expand my horizon." Italy's Gae Aulenti, who recently completed new designs for Fiat showrooms round the world, agrees with Cardin's principle of atmosphere in design. She says, "Here the architect is concerned with everything that is in his building, from the walls to the furniture to the vase for the flowers. I can design everything...
...struggle of designers to free themselves from their traditional limbo, somewhere between architecture and interior decoration. More and more, design strives to be active: its tutelary gods are no longer Chippendale or the Bauhaus, but Buckminster Fuller, Marcuse and Ronald Laing. The thrust of designers like Ettore Sottsass, Gae Aulenti, Marco Zanuso and the "Archizoom" group is not to decorate the psychic space around us but to extend and question it. This means a critical approach to social patterns, which starts with the language of shape...
...exquisitely designed objects, from lamps to ashtrays to such inviting modular sofas as Mario Bellini's "Chameleon" cushion system (see color page), it is apparent that the functionalist concerns of the Bauhaus are receding. Some emphasis has shifted to furniture as dream or fetish or ikon. Thus Gae Aulenti designs a variable bookcase/shelf/sleeping-platform unit that, glittering in vermilion fiber glass, resembles a Mayan sacrificial altar; while Sottsass's red ceramic vase has the archaic look of a ziggurat...