Word: eclecticism
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Critics, particularly in Europe, began to see Wines as the only American architect to cast a plague on both houses of contemporary design, those of orthodox modernism and eclectic postmodernism. But the notion lingered that the inventive mockery of his designs for Best Products was relatively easy on a shopping...
The products of the new technologies-from Raymond Loewy's 1948 television set to Giorgetto Giugiaro's 1981 Logica electronic sewing machine-are concentrated by Curator Kathryn Hiesinger in a central space, a circle of dramatic display columns that Nelson calls Stonehenge. Models of Explorer I and a...
It may be that we suddenly take to the warm, womblike darkness, the friendly formality of wood furniture and the comforting earth colors of Wright's interiors because we desperately need what they convey. Although we may be fleetingly thrilled, we are surely not satisfied with what fashionable ulterior...
DIED. Jean Troisgros, 56, perfectionist chef of France's nouvelle cuisine; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Vittel, France. Troisgros and his younger brother Pierre turned their small-town family restaurant in Roanne into a mecca for traveling gourmets. Rejecting the heavy tradition of French haute cuisine...
From the opening bus station farewell between Andrew and his parents, instantly recognizable to anyone who's ever taken a trip any where, to the Halloween party alligator who greets people, "Hi, want to buy a shirt?" Class is an eclectic collage of moments. Jonathan's romance includes an outrageous...