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...capital. Its traffic density is even more paralyzing than Manhattan's: the broad boulevards and narrow streets are constantly jammed by cursing motorists. Finding a parking place for one's Deux Chevaux (or even one's motorbike) is becoming as difficult as scaling the Eiffel Tower...
Pieces like Jacques Famery's Plexiglas arm chair are magic invisible furniture. They hold a body but eyes pass through them. Eiffel's tower and Paxton's Crystal Palace introduced a new kind of building where space flowed through instead of stopping at the walls. And Plexiglas furniture changes the interior from an organization of volumes in space to a mere description of space drawn with light patterns of color and reflection...
...Paris in 1925. But it was never built. Engineers in Stockholm have reconstructed the model from photographs, complete with four slowly revolving inner structures shaped variously like a pyramid, a hemisphere and two cylinders. Overall, Tatlin's monument looks rather like a cross between the Eiffel Tower and the Leaning Tower of Pisa...
...Rockefeller II, and Charles Evans Hughes were among its loyal clientele; even today, the Fords and Rockefellers wouldn't dream of staying anywhere else. Greek shipping magnates and the new movie rich wander across its baroque lobbies and take in the view of the Seine and the Eiffel Tower or mingle with the chic luncheon crowd in the garden restaurant, nibbling lobster souffle or "Tournedos Plaza Athénée" smothered in foie gras. The hotel's 50 suites and 200 rooms, priced from $15 to $100 a night, are looked after by 450 employees, its dining...
Semolina (16) pilchard (17) climbing up the Eiffel Tower. (18) Elementary penguin (19) singing Hare Krishna man you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allen...