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A conductor, Mike Eames, is proceeding through car 9132, tranquilly collecting tickets. "It takes 20 minutes to get through two cars. Sometimes by Jamaica I get through. Sometimes I never get through." He is accompanied in his polite progression through the thrashing mass by hostile remarks about the unions, which...
Historically, architects have made notable contributions to domestic accessories. From 1903 to the 1930s, Vienna Visionary Josef Hoffmann and others produced jewelry, tableware and even wallpaper at his celebrated Wiener Werkstatte. Bauhaus builders made seating and sinks to furnish their functional structures, and Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art...
Technique intrigued him deeply. To many, plywood seems a contemptible crossbreed, neither natural nor synthetic, but to Aalto it was a perfect hybrid of ancient material and industrial technology. Breuer eventually returned to plywood; after the war, Charles Eames pressed it into subtle topographies that had been beyond Aalto'...
The lounge chair, which Diffrient named for Jefferson, has none of the sleek elegance of the chaise longues designed by Mies van der Rohe or Le Corbusier, nor the coziness of the Eames lounge chair. But then, none of them is adjustable and completely comfortable. In designing his Jefferson chair...
Because stars and stripes remain among its many symbols, Jerde and Suss man call their effervescent design Festive Federalism. But it is much more. It is a rich synthesis of 20th century art, from Mird's squiggles and Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-woogie to Charles Eames' playfulness...