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...credo of Architect Morris Lapidus of Miami Beach is simple and to the point: put your money where it shows. Such cathedrals of pleasure as the Eden Roc, Americana and Fontainebleau (pronounced Fountain Blue) hotels give abundant evidence that Lapidus is a disciple of excess. With freewheeling showmanship, he is trying to develop an "alphabet of ornament" that will provoke an emotional revolt against the austerity of modern architecture. In the midway atmosphere of Miami Beach and other resort areas, Lapidus, 57, finds the perfect outlet for the "new sensuality" expressed in his terrazzoed palazzos. "They call my hotels corn...
...crown is an iridescent fountain of bubbling jewels. Diamonds spill and shimmer like droplets of moonlight. At its pinnacle, a huge, rough-cut ruby stares like an evil red eye. The diamond crown of Peter the Great is one of 80-odd superb photographic still lifes of the Kremlin's quasi-barbaric, Byzantine splendors, caught with eloquent precision by David Douglas Duncan's camera. This glittering hoard-jeweled scepters and prayer books, imperial gowns and priestly vestments, carriages and thrones-was buried art treasure until Duncan wangled Khrushchev's permission in 1956 to roam the Kremlin...
...Fountains of Concrete. Back in the U.S., Lundy settled in Sarasota hard by a rival Harvard classmate and fellow prizewinner, Paul Rudolph (TIME color, Feb. 1). In the scramble for commissions, Lundy made his reputation when he designed a handsome drive-in church for as little as $35,000 by using laminated southern pine. He proved equally adept at designing commercial structures. A flower-shaped furniture showroom in laminated redwood pulled business right off the highway. His Warm Mineral Springs Inn, sheltered by 75 overlapping concrete shells suggestive of the nearby tourist-touted "Fountain of Youth," was such a successful...
...year or more at Rome's secluded American Academy. In a setting that might have inspired Horace, the yellow-walled palazzo sits serenely atop the Janiculum hill, Rome's highest, where the eye is on a level with St. Peter's dome, and a languid fountain dripping in the courtyard is louder than the city's raucous Vespas. If the place is out of this world, the effect jolts men to hard, realistic work. "I know I'll never get another chance like this in my life," says one sweaty sculptor. Adds a painter...
...boom is everywhere. San Francisco now has Earl ("Fatha") Hines, Kid Ory and Marty Marsala. Chicago has Art Hodes, Bill Reinhardt, Franz Jackson and his Dixieland All-Stars, a popular and authentic group, the average age of whose members is 65. In New Orleans the big names are Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Mike Lala. And almost anywhere the Dukes of Dixieland can be heard. "The customers," explains one jazz critic, "like to get loaded and imitate trombones...