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...good-size but hardly expansive. The interior is lucid and properly restrained. It is, in Venturi's famous phrase, a "decorated shed." Around the front doors, the facade is a riot of color, pattern and material: red granite topped by green, blue and yellow tiles, zigzags of terra cotta, bluestone squares and vaguely Moorish arches in sandstone. A grand staircase runs the length of the building, paralleling the street outside; in fact, the stairs become something of an interior street, giving on to an open-front mezzanine cafe three-quarters...
Most perplexing of all was the terra-cotta bath scrubber, a $5 cookie-shaped object with the texture of a cheese grater. Its purpose is to scrub off skin flakes. This object seemed to symbolize the Origins mentality: "Look at me! I'm mortifying my flesh even though I'm also indulging in expensive toiletries!" Maybe the bath scrubber would make a good gift for your favorite ascetic, but a real cheese grater would work just as well--and be more useful around the house...
...hall's century-old Roman brick and terra cotta are suggested on the tower by a skin of brownish and amber brick in five shades, and the molding and cornice lines of Carnegie's beaux arts facade are continued across the front of Pelli's building. The high-rise is wrapped by thick metal bands at six-floor intervals corresponding to the older building's height...
...recent years, particularly in the South and West, Hispanic decorating styles have spread from ethnic enclave to city center to suburb. Design and architecture magazines and chic boutiques are full of the terra-cotta pots, vivid woven rugs and ceramic tiles of the Santa Fe style, and homebuilders around the country are busy slapping stucco onto plywood and chicken wire to satisfy a growing yen for adobe homes. At the same time, more public buildings are being constructed in a modern flourish on the Old World style of Spain, with arched porticoes, wide, shady courtyards and bubbling fountains. "I like...
...Angeles, Chicago and Boston, is a collaboration of the National Gallery and the Greek government, in which contributions from 18 Greek museums have been assembled. Scaled to a museumgoer's tolerance for fractured antiquities -- just 67 items -- the exhibit still covers a wide range, from early pottery and terra-cotta figures to archaic marbles of a quality rare in American collections...