Word: barcelona
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sampler of diverse American expatriates, 1970-style: IRVING HARRISON, 50, moved his family and his architectural practice from New York City to Barcelona last spring. He was a McCarthy delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and it was there, he says, that he "began turning off." He explains: "We went with the belief that we could still change the whole picture, and we got slapped down like so many children. I no longer believe that the thinking, responsible adult can actually make a difference...
Eames (along with his wife and 30-member Office) is a contemporary Bauhaus. To the architect, Eames' self-designed Santa Monica home is as important a landmark as any Gropius house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Miles van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator...
...making out. A hilarious and deftly convincing seduction scene finds him in bed with a loquacious airline stewardess whose final act of disrobing is to doff her bellboy-style hat. As she stirs to leave the bed after a discreet blackout, Robert asks the girl where she is going. "Barcelona," she replies for one of the dozens of explosive one-word and one-line laughs that punctuate the show. It is not a cop-out but a truism that in the end Robert discovers that these casual liaisons are a paradise of emptiness that leave him less than alive...
Eames (along with his wife and 30-member Office), is a contemporary Bauhaus. To the architect. Eames' self-designed Santa Monica home is as important a landmark as any Gropius house. The Eames Lounge Chair holds its position in design as well as Mies van der Rohes' Barcelona Chair. He has integrated the plastic arts with crafts and industry as the Bauhaus did, and what pedestal there was for art to stand on, Eames has replaced with the "everyman's" chair. The Bauhaus was a school; Eames is an educator...
...artist's gift will leave Barcelona with the biggest Picasso collection in the world-at least numerically. But the canny old master has sequestered in his own private custody thousands of his mature works, and unless Barcelona gets those, too, the site of the definitive Picasso museum is still the master's choice...