Word: deco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nostalgia also reflects a different kind of judgment on our age. There is a discontent with the present, a foreboding of a plastic future, a looking back with longing to times that were-what? Simpler, happier, better? But were those times really better? The corny old movies, the Art Deco shapes, are now seen not critically but fondly, as shards and artifacts of times that were more sharply defined than ours (the Roaring Twenties, the Gay Nineties). Since such a view of the past is apt to be indulgent and sentimental, the nostalgia wave is hardly a fair test...
...next stop, an art deco gallery, he has better luck. Bouncing among three display rooms, he takes pictures off the walls and piles them, along with a couple of statues, by the cash register. After 15 minutes the bill...
Interested in a $4,600 coffee table made from two Rolls-Royce radiator grilles and a slab of stainless steel? Or maybe a $1,380 three-seater sofa with a tubular frame? The Art Deco creations and their superstar price tags are the work of a London furniture company co-owned by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr and Designer Robin Cruikshank. "I had the conventional art-school training, but he comes up with some very unusual ideas," says Cruikshank of his partner. Among Starr's contributions: a doughnut-shaped fireplace and a table designed to look like a flower with...
...common among early abstract artists. Its embodiment, for Dove, was in works like Team of Horses (1911), one of the first abstract paintings ever made in the U.S.: the curling shapes, fringed with sawtooth edges and inset between thick dark lines, are like a premonitory flicker of art deco, but Dove's intent was to convey a sense of sullen, humped energy moving across a landscape...
...where nearly as serious. Thus no one seemed to shudder when Remington began selling a handsome replica of a 1930 calendar issued by the Peters Cartridge Co., now a division of Remington, perhaps because of the current fascination with the entire decade of the '30s. For instance, art deco will again be all the rage in 1975, just as it was in 1930, and escapist movies are making a comeback. So far, Remington has sold 8,000 copies of its calendar at $4 each, and orders are still coming in for the vintage specimen that bears a grand magazine...