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...BLOCKS: Architecture, that least transportable of arts, has a back-scratching relationship with photography. The camera craves beauty; buildings crave an eye. And photographer Ezra Stoller's eye is among the best. The charm of his new series of books is that each volume carefully documents a building--e.g., Eero Saarinen's TWA terminal at N.Y.C.'s Kennedy Airport--as the architect wanted it, before remodeling or damage. Beauty and history...
...many years ago, downtown St. Louis was, like most old American downtowns, a void, dreary and disheartening, a place where respectable people worked, bums lived and almost nobody strolled. Given that lifelessness, the city's attempt to create a heroic modern monument to itself in 1965, Eero Saarinen's arch beside the Mississippi, came to seem like self-mockery: a pure, gorgeous steel span rising from a dying downtown and a forgotten riverfront, a giant logo erected as a wishful substitute for authentic urban reconstruction...
...prefers to have her tapestries considered at the very inception of a building as an integral part of its design. A good example is the piece that earned her national renown in 1973, the Carp tapestry, which she wove for the Deere & Co. headquarters in Moline, Ill., designed by Eero Saarinen. The theme was suggested by then Deere Board Chairman William Hewitt because the company had just received a gift of 300 colorful carp for its pond from its Japanese supplier. Hernmarck wove a shimmering multicolored hanging that appears translucent and can be viewed from both sides...
...professional life to accommodating what he calls the "human factor" in the tools and furnishings of our high-tech civilization. He started as a painter, but switched to industrial design while studying at the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art, near Detroit. During that time he apprenticed with Architect-Designer Eero Saarinen, making drawings and models for office chairs. He eventually won acclaim for his own chairs but is just as proud of the tractors, lift trucks and airplane interiors he helped create during 25 years with Henry Dreyfuss Associates, a leading industrial-design firm. At Dreyfuss, he also helped develop...
...works created under the academy's aegis: the sculpture of Carl Milles, Tony Rosenthal, Harry Bertoia and others; the rugs and wall hangings of Eliel Saarinen's wife Loja, his daughter Pipsan and Marianne Strengell; and the furniture and furnishings of Charles and Ray Eames, Bertoia and Eero Saarinen. Says Met Curator Miller: "Cranbrook's artists all conceived their work in an architectural context and believed in the totality of design from the largest to the smallest detail...