Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couldn't get much farther away from himself than Pal's lost Atlantis. The dress and decor are a sumptuous mishmash of Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Assyrian, Mayan, Egyptian. Tartar, and Park Avenue highrise. Cauldrons boil, priests prophesy, volcanoes belch, lava pours, mountains move, buildings crumble, tidal waves tumble, and death-ray guns pulverize people and ships. The slaves in the House of Fear are turned into beasts of burden at the behest of a crystal-twirling caliph: "Now you will close your eyes. When you are commanded to open them, you will be a bull"-or a boar...
...whole place is powered by gigantic crystals that store solar energy. It is when Atlantis gets the idea that the same crystal can be used to obliterate all of the Old World east of Gibraltar that the papier-mâché plot rustles a little. The hero, a Greek fisherman vapidly realized by Newcomer Anthony Hall, invades Atlantis, survives the terrible Ordeal of Fire and Water, frees the slaves, foils the villain's plot, and gets away with the hot-eyed princess (Joyce Taylor) just before the whole bloody empire gurgles to the ocean floor...
...State Museum. Other straight-legged stools are borrowed from a frieze in the Parthenon. Copied line for line and curve for curve from the stele of Hegesco, built in 400 B.C., is a large chair with curved back and legs. Gibbings' couches reflect the economy of the classical Greeks, who used them for sitting, sleeping or eating. Modern users, if they like, can follow the Greek custom of dining from a small side table while reclining on the couch and then shoving the table under the couch to make room for the dancing girls...
...almost a quarter of a century, Designer T. H. (for Terence Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings successfully designed stark, austere contemporary furniture for a number of top U.S. manufacturers. A decorator, architect, author (GoodBye, Mr. Chippendale), and longtime admirer of the durability of classic Greek forms, Gibbings grew increasingly disenchanted with the coldness and built-in "artificial obsolescence" of most modern furniture. Poking through museums and private art collections all over the U.S. and Europe, he cribbed ideas from the drawings on ancient Greek pottery and bas-reliefs. This week in Athens, a new line of classically inspired furniture based on Gibbings...
Amid the French furniture, Greek marbles and African carvings of London's Greek embassy, he and his statuesque blonde wife regularly entertain such philhellenic men of letters and personal friends as Lawrence Durrell, E. M. Forster, John Lehmann and Classicist Maurice Bowra...