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...Bird in Space was a work of art or a mere metal implement. Some are hailing Memphis as a quantum leap. Says Bill Lacy, president of New York's Cooper Union: "It's bold and shocking, a new way of thinking about furnishings." Its products grace several museum collections and have been featured in more than 200 magazine articles. But the group's self-conscious combination of campy references to the '50s and contemporary glitz has not impressed everyone. While he admires the bravado, U.S. Designer George Nelson notes that Memphis seems unconcerned with such staples...
...commandments of accepted modern style. Their form follows fantasy, and they owe more to the media messages of Marshall McLuhan than to the Bauhaus minimalism of Architect Mies van der Rohe. Memphis' latest whimsical collection of 66 pieces went partially on view earlier this month at the trendy Grace Designs showroom in Dallas, the Janus Gallery in Los Angeles and the Limn in San Francisco, and will soon open in New York City. The furniture draws smiles from viewers with its unlikely shapes, Pop art palette and a look of imminent collapse. Table legs lean toward disaster and supports...
...boxing ring. The style is catching on with professional decorators as well. In Houston, a beauty salon and a cocktail lounge are currently being furnished exclusively with Memphis. The largest single professional group who buy the disturbing style, reports Lorry Parks, a partner in Dallas and Houston's Grace Designs, are affluent psychiatrists...
...recent changes will allow universities to approve federal funding for foreign travel and purchasing permanent equipment, to grant extensions and to combine funding for related projects according to the report to the Grace Task Force which was assembled by President Reagan to study problems of university research...
Doctors are still unsure whether she will ever grace another Crimson playing field...