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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This has already occurred in two faculties, Design and Education, and was primarily responsible for turning a 1973-74 deficit into a surplus in 1974-75 at the Education School. Yale and other Ivy League schools also have started "cramming...
Also known as bagettes and bicycle bags, the minis were first shown with the fall resort-wear collections in Manhattan and Paris. The mini with the most has been Paris-based Kenzo's design. Made of suede, leather or printed cotton, Kenzo's flat half-circle with a snap-down flap has sold millions in copies by Miller, Pappagallo and others. A made-in-Colombia macrame necklace pouch by Kathy McKeany ($5) is expected to be a sellout when it reaches stores across the country this week. More ornate minis include Bagatelle Creations' snakeskin square with...
Such projects, though for "contemporary" buildings-bourses, railroad buildings and other temples of the new technocratic capitalism-have a curiously unreal air. They are paper architecture inhabiting imaginary space. How, one wonders, could they prepare a student for design in the real world? Yet they did, for the "real world" of 19th century French architecture was very different from today's. To us, architecture means anything built, from a cot tage to a town. But in France, l'architecture was the design of large public buildings, usually erected by the state...
Beaux-Arts design was various. Its major works run from the quiet classicism of Charles Percier's arcades along the Rue de Rivoli - one of the stateliest parade grounds in the world - to the exuberance of Garnier's Opera. But there was always a concern (surprising as it must sound after the years of propaganda) for functional clarity, and it shows in the superbly detailed drawings that make up the show at MOMA...
...addition, several of TIME's 1975 covers have already been honored. Art Directions magazine singled out Jim Sharpe's painting of Chou En-lai (Feb. 3) and Richard Avedon's photograph of Cher (March 17). It also cited the editorial design of TIME's special 1776 issue. Art Director David Merrill was honored by The One Show, published by the Art Directors Club, for his design of a 1974 cover on Middle East massacres...