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...CREW. Based in Manhattan's up-and-coming Flatiron section and housed in a loft building with hardwood floors and exposed industrial pipes, J. Crew is far from folksy. The company's offerings are decidedly casual but with a note of sophistication. Arthur Cinader, 61, J. Crew's chairman, describes the J. Crew look as "understated flair." Cinader, whose family-owned firm operates a clothing-and-furnishings catalog business called Popular Club Plan, started J. Crew six years ago and had an almost instant...
...friends, including Joyce, Hemingway and Picasso. Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray (Abbeville; 348 pages; $55) reproduces these pictures, of course, but much else as well. Ray flourished in Paris during the 1920s and '30s as a painter and a maker of often whimsical objects, such as a flatiron with a row of tacks attached. Photography was almost an afterthought, a means of recording his sometimes perishable constructions. But Ray's camera also captured an era -- when art belonged to Dada -- that this book scrupulously assembles and preserves...
...center, though, and it is eponymous: Times Tower, originally the newspaper's headquarters, stands on its own triangular island where the three streets come together. Built at the turn of the century, Times Tower (now One Times Square) was the odd but lovable younger sister of the classic Flatiron Building a mile down Broadway -- until its terra-cotta exterior was ripped away in favor of a charmless white marble skin in the mid- 1960s. The dowager has been turned into a cheap mummy, yet the disposition of Times Tower remains an architectural cause celebre. Johnson and Burgee once proposed that...
...these people that this ethic was not working very well their parents seemed to have gone without satisfactions in marriage, in work, in leisure all their lives with little to show for it. They were too old to enjoy life or had found their savings eaten away by in flatiron. And they hadn't had any fun. Their children were going to see to it that that did not happen to them. They were not going to stay stuck in unhappy marriages or boring jobs. They had moved on to a third stage "ethic of self-actualization...
...individuality. A resident of Paris since 1921 (except for a ten-year stretch in Hollywood starting in 1940), Ray was most successful as a photographer. His other work included Rayographs (images made by placing objects directly on photosensitive paper), startling constructions built out of everyday items (such as a flatiron studded with a row of tacks), and paintings, about which he was the most serious. Ray delighted in having no readily identifiable style. "Life is an instant, a one-day insect," he once said. "There's no time to do two things alike...