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Iowa-born Carroll Barnes studied at Washington's Corcoran School of Art, later held a scholarship at Michigan's famed Cranbrook Academy. He got the idea for his heroic-sized statue from a Los Angeles critic who had seen a smaller, 4 ft. 6 in. Paul Bunyan by Barnes at an exhibition, thought it might look well four times as big. His opportunity came when he heard that a sequoia tree standing on the slopes of the Sierras had been weakened in a Mt. Whitney hurricane, and could be cut down. Barnes trucked an 18-ft. section...
...world's most active laboratory of city planning is an orderly, well-lighted studio in the little town of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 15 miles from Detroit. Here advanced students of the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art work over maps, diagrams and statistics, rearranging the streets and buildings of such gigantic U.S. cities as Detroit, Cleveland and Chicago. In several smaller midwest cities, like Flint and Saginaw, their plans have actually been tried...
...Angeles Museum decided to show the public how city planners thought the ideal Los Angeles should look. With help from the County Regional Planning Commission, and a group of famous architects and designers including California's R. J. Neutra and Cranbrook Academy's Walter Baermann, the museum's director, balding Roland McKinney, last fortnight opened the biggest city planning show California had ever seen. They were joined by the Los Angeles chapter of Telesis, a militant group of Pacific Coast architects who want California to look like a Lewis Mumford dreamworld...
Best-looking entries in the show were a group of splashily printed fabrics, done with the silk-screen process by Czechoslovak Architect Antonin Raymond. Most practical furniture was a set of unit bookcases and cupboards by Cranbrook, Mich.'s Eero Saarinen (son of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen) and Charles Eames. Resting on smooth, knee-high benches, the Saarinen and Eames cupboardry could be stacked in as many window-seat and pigeonhole combinations as any modern apartment would hold...
Gropius' New Kensington project is only the most notable of a flock of new defense houses being built by the country's best architects. Already complete and occupied are the sombrero-eaved cottages which Los Angeles' Richard J. Neutra designed for Avion Village, near Dallas. Cranbrook's Eliel Saarinen is working on designs for 200 defense units in Detroit; George Howe has an assignment at Middletown, Pa. On the next largest project of all is San Francisco's able William W. Wurster, who drew up the site plan for 1,692 units for Mare Island...