Word: gazebo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...loft-his "plywood palazzo"-but, when pressed, he picks the man to design his dream house: New York's Richard Meier, whose work he analyzes in this week's story. And Hughes would have Cover Subject Philip Johnson whip up a "gazebo-cum-study...
...tradition, only irony can control quotation; and irony would become one of the main features of Post-Modernism. When Johnson decreed that "you cannot not know history," orthodox Miesians were scandalized. Johnson had allowed himself private ironies when building for himself; the gazebo on his lake in New Canaan, Conn., is scaled down to the proportions of the famous dwarves' quarters in the Gonzaga Palace in Mantua, a complete antifunctionalist joke. But for a long while Johnson was too embedded in the world of high taste and big money to permit himself large public ironies: that...
...problems are uniquely rural, so are the payoffs. Country Journal's eight-member editorial staff takes lunch breaks on cross-country skis or picnics in an old gazebo on a pond behind the office. Blair gazes out of his office window at photogenic Mt. Wantastiguet. And Ketchum's family has become a working advertisement for the magazine's editorial pitch of self-sufficiency: they spend spare hours milking goats, making maple syrup and, of course, delivering the occasional calf...
...Last week a stream of strollers made the one-mile trek along the sand from San Clemente State Beach to stare at-and try to peer over-the wooden fence behind the railroad tracks and the 25-ft. bluff behind it. All that the curious could see was the gazebo that was refurbished at public expense and a corner of the main building. Richard Nixon stayed out of sight, as secluded in the Casa Pacifica at San Clemente as he was in his last weeks in the White House...
...Clemente were "primarily for the President's personal benefit." Most of the questioned items were at San Clemente. They included $388.78 for an exhaust fan to keep the fireplace from smoking, $1,600 to enlarge four windows in the den and $998.50 for repairs on the family gazebo...