Word: cranbrook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kaplan was a computer enthusiast at his highschool, the Cranbrook School, friends said...
...Japan," he says, "workers are always so willing to cooperate with architects that we can do something almost unthinkable in the U.S. -- modify our designs in the process of building." Maki knows what he is talking about. He earned master's degrees in the '50s from Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Arts and from Harvard, taught at Harvard and practiced in New York City with Skidmore Owings & Merrill. He returned to Tokyo...
...five Russian-immigrant brothers who operated a succession of popular delicatessens and restaurants in the city. Boesky was known from childhood for his intense desire to excel -- almost to the point of not knowing when to stop. Recalls Roger Boesky, a second cousin who attended the same prep school, Cranbrook, in suburban Detroit: "He had this capacity for single-mindedness. He drove himself mercilessly as far as exercise goes," performing hundreds of push-ups at a time...
Historically, architects have made notable contributions to domestic accessories. From 1903 to the 1930s, Vienna Visionary Josef Hoffmann and others produced jewelry, tableware and even wallpaper at his celebrated Wiener Werkstatte. Bauhaus builders made seating and sinks to furnish their functional structures, and Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art inspired mid-century classics like the Eames lounge chair. Frank Lloyd Wright not only fashioned lamps and dinnerware to complement his houses, but even lent his name to mass-produced furniture, carpets and fabrics...
...haired Mississippian, Diffrient, 55, has always disdained the merely stylish, devoting most of his professional life to accommodating what he calls the "human factor" in the tools and furnishings of our high-tech civilization. He started as a painter, but switched to industrial design while studying at the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art, near Detroit. During that time he apprenticed with Architect-Designer Eero Saarinen, making drawings and models for office chairs. He eventually won acclaim for his own chairs but is just as proud of the tractors, lift trucks and airplane interiors he helped create during 25 years with...