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Grace retired from Hollywood after only eleven films. Her first important role was as Gary Cooper's wife in High Noon. She played opposite Clark Gable in Mogambo, James Stewart in Rear Window and Frank Sinatra in High Society, and she won an Oscar in 1955 as Bing Crosby's wife in The Country Girl...
...Scandinavian Modern: 1880-1980," the dazzling exhibition that opens this week at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, hits us, therefore, like a massive surprise attack. Some 330 masterworks of furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork and textiles show that Scandinavian design is not so much a style as a visual morality, a powerful force for beauty and meaning. Nor is the modern mode of Scandinavian design frozen into an abstract machine aesthetic. It is a creative way of meeting changing practical and emotional needs. Seen in this context, Danish modern is fresh, exciting and timeless. Like Finnish Architect Alvar...
...Cooper-Hewitt, which is the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, has organized and displayed this exhibition with its usual flair. Scandinavian design, says the museum's sumptuous exhibition catalogue (published in hard cover by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; $45), "scatters flowers before your feet and lays the pale colors and mild beauty of the Nordic summer before your eyes. Less apparent is the truth that this sunny effect is achieved against a background of darkness, cold, ice and snow...
...furnishings of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland a common quality. It is a painstaking, brooding, almost mystical devotion to perfection in craftsmanship and thoughtfulness in art. The effort is focused on the home because for many snowed-in months there is no other place to focus on. Says Cooper-Hewitt Curator of Decorative Arts David Revere McFadden, who organized the show: "Whether they are made by hand or machine, Scandinavia's virtuoso designs are both art and craft. Distinction between the two would merely spoil our joy of appreciating them...
...Douglas Cooper Casper...