Word: franciscos
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...Notebook Glamour in San Francisco, cookbooks and fashion books. Plus, Canada's hot architects, best-selling handbags and why fashion and politics...
...guiding principle of design and not just for architects. But even when pared-down Modernism was at the height of its prestige, there was a countertradition of glorious excess. "Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture," an exhibition that runs from Oct. 9 through Jan. 16 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, traces an aesthetic of surplus and superabundance that continually bursts forth in clothing, buildings, automobiles and objects--a taste for luxury, spectacle and even pure, shameless glitz that has exploded unmistakably into the present. --BY RICHARD LACAYO
DIED. DAVID MYERS, 90, cinematographer best known for his idiosyncratic camera work on concert documentaries such as the 1970 Oscar-winning movie Woodstock; in San Francisco. He also worked on such feature films as George Lucas' 1971 futuristic debut THX 1138 and Alan Rudolph's 1977 drama Welcome...
...states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture?designing buildings to blend in with their natural surroundings. DIED. DAVID MYERS, 90, cinematographer best known for his idiosyncratic camera work on concert documentaries such as the 1970 Oscar-winning Woodstock; in San Francisco. He also worked on such feature films as George Lucas' 1971 futuristic debut THX 1138 and Alan Rudolph's 1977 drama Welcome to L.A. Before moving into the rock 'n' roll genre, the New York native was a leader of the 1960s cinema-verit? movement, and traversed the globe...
...birthday. My sister lives in San Francisco, so we met there to celebrate. I was an art student in Los Angeles, and I flew up. We all decided to go to a Richard Avedon photography show in Berkeley. I was kind of a con artist--small jobs, like getting in movies free--and I guess I was ready for a big job. While they were all looking at the photographs, I went to the next gallery, where the museum was installing scrolls from the Ming dynasty. The room was unguarded, and I slid an 8-ft. piece of Plexiglas...