Word: decoratively
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...Habana Libre looks like any other hotel. Its architecture is an unimaginative rectangular slab; the decor of its lobby is unmistakably the pesudo-modernism of the mid-fifties. Some things will probably never change, like the daiquiris, so cold they make your head ache if you sip them too fast...
There is hardly a mod shop from San Francisco and New York City to London and Paris that does not have its supply of see-through inflatable vinyl pillows decorated with boldly colored patterns silk-screened on the inside. When they first appeared a year ago, pillows seemed like just another passing pop phenomenon. Instead, they have proved to be the precursor of a new school of design that believes furniture ought to be, or at least look, invisible. Using vinyls and plastics, young American and European designers are now mass-producing chairs, sofas and tables that...
...greyhound racing has much of the excitement of horse racing, it has little of its charm. Mint juleps and "My Old Kentucky Home" would jar strangely with the Late Formica decor of the Wonderland clubhouse, and the line of Thoroughbred greats stretching from Man O' War to Kelso and Buckpasser has no parallel among the almost anonymous canine racers...
That much of the artistic fallout into fashion and decor-from op dresses and psychedelic posters to Andy Warhol soup-can glasses and kitchen design-is by nature transitory does not bother him. Using art as home decoration, he argues, "gives it a broader base." Nor is he overly moved by critics such as Clement Greenberg, who laments that too-happy acceptance of the new has killed the tradition of the avantgarde. Greenberg complains that the days of the great innovators are gone, that pop, op and minimal are not true avant-garde art, but merely "novelty art." The only...
...stockholder and drawing card of Manhattan's bon-ton discothèque Arthur, is making an Arthur franchise available to anyone with $50,000 and a suitably overcrowded location. Sybil expects to have spawned seven to ten little Arthurs within a year, will supply suggestions for layout and decor, publicity and the presence of such celebrities as herself and Friend Roddy McDowall at openings. No "small towns" need apply. Would-be Arthurians in Asbury Park, N.J. (pop. 17,800), and Buffalo (pop. 481,453) have already been turned down...