Word: deco
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Given that Deskey had first been inflamed by the idea of the modern at the epochal Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs in 1925--whence the term (and style) Art Deco--the clothing he draped over the muscular lines of the Music Hall was surprisingly American. He commissioned paintings from America's leading modernists, designed hundreds of furniture pieces in novel forms and added new materials--tubular steel, Bakelite, aluminum foil--to the design vocabulary. Up to that point, the fashion in theater decoration might have been characterized as Italian Baroque Moorish Greek Renaissance Pagoda. Pick...
DIED. ENRIQUE ALFEREZ, 98, Mexican-born art-deco sculptor and Pancho Villa comrade whose dozens of sculptures decorate New Orleans; in New Orleans. Before moving to America to study art, Alferez served with the revolutionary forces, which he joined...
...speak--ABC and CBS are sniffing after Today's morning dominance, achieved dramatically after its see-through set debuted, and will likewise aim to capture street ambience and interact with viewers. But each set will offer a different aspect of the city's personality: NBC's, the Art Deco cool of Rockefeller Center; ABC's, the neon bustle of Times Square; CBS's, the fairy-tale vista of Central Park and the Plaza Hotel. "The idea of doing Christmas in New York City in the millennium year" from the site, gushes Early Show senior executive producer Steve Friedman, "is amazing...
...drawings of planets, cities, swamps, creatures, racing pods, new mechanical versions of storm troopers (Lucas told Chiang to think of the elongated, skeletal shapes of African sculptures--and that did the trick). The Queen's ship is sleek chrome with streaks of yellow and fins inspired by an Art Deco pin. Fine, but would it fly? "Part of my phony-baloney research was to watch a lot of educational TV," says Chiang. "But this is film reality, not reality. Put my plane in a wind tunnel and it would fall apart...
...Porter Square was now looming, and Harvard drifted farther from my mind. The nearly Art-Deco opulence of the old Sears & Roebuck, building tempted me with the siren song of the Gap, but I resisted, the voice of my editor still echoing in my ears. "Further on, further in," I mused, "to Somerville!" And not just any Somerville--not the one of Inman Square and summertime living--but something a little seedier and a hell of a lot closer to Tufts...