Word: eliel
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...Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design," which opens at the Wolfsonian museum in Miami Beach, Fla., on Nov. 10, will offer visitors a unique take on more than 200 influential works by designers like Eliel Saarinen and Elsa Peretti, as well as historical artifacts. Blown-up advertisements will accompany the pieces to illustrate how taste has been influenced by and created for the American public...
TIME once quoted this exhortation by architect Eliel Saarinen: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context--a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." Similarly, we hope that this issue finds a place in your eye, in your mind and in your life. But we'd be content if it simply had the same effect on you as design does on British tastemaker Sir Terence Conran. "Believing in good design is like believing in God," he has said. "It makes...