Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nine capitals decorated with pure design show that combination of strength and delicacy, that supreme skill in execution, which is characteristic of the best Burgundian work of the twelfth century. In the figured capitals, however, the interest is even more intense. A brief discussion of the iconography or subjects depicted will be of interest...
...civilization apparent, to make the convicts remember that they are human. There is a wierd quiet that hangs over the place which is augmented only by the wierder call of the Tern. This is not an environment which lends itself to character building. The prison is of ancient design with all the discomfort and severity of the early Victorian period. Nothing is done to ease the burden of the penal existence...
...museum is a U-shaped building of pure Georgian design containing a New York rarity?a real garden in its fore court. Only two floors of exhibits were on view last week but these contained enough shows to stir the civic pride of the most callous. There was Peter Stuyvesant's sword, Alexander Hamilton's desk, a set of George Washington's false teeth and the last of his real ones?extracted by Dentist John Greenwood and worn on his watch fob for many years, an idea later adopted by members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. There...
...Cleveland department stores last week offered the "Ballyhoo" scarf (with "Ballyhoo" clip), made with a crazy quilt design like the magazine's cover border. Also there are a Ballyhoo dress, necktie, cuff links, rings, night club (in Manhattan), song, game, birthday card, convalescent card, saloon (in Havana, formerly the American Bar), a statuet of Gandhi with a copy of Ballyhoo under his arm. Except for the game, all the other enterprises are independent of the publication which takes its royalties in the form of free advertising...
...Warburg '30 on the sculpture of Georg Kolbe, in the Great Hall of the Germanic Museum. Warburg has been teaching Fine Arts at Bryn Mawr College and has lectured at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence...