Word: handcrafting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might say that the essential subject matter of the International Style was the end of history. Its "functionalism," which correctly saw that mass production was destroying handcraft and, with it, ornament, was always colored by this millenarian fantasy. Johnson, whose relationship to Mies van der Rohe is complicated and Oedipal, argues that "Mies believed in the ultimate truth of architecture, especially of his architecture: that it was closer to the truth than anyone else's because it was simpler and could be learned. He felt it could be adapted on and on into the centuries, until architecture bloomed into...
...everything save the 454-cu.-in., 215-net-h.p. Chevrolet V-8 engine is built from hubs up in Milwaukee. The $64,500 Stutz Blackhawk VI starts out as a new wide-track Pontiac Grand Prix, which is sent to Turin, where Italian descendants of descendants of coachmakers handcraft a body of 18-gauge steel (twice the weight of Mercedes metal); the Shah of Iran is said to have ordered twelve of them...
...shortage that plagues all of Eastern Europe; 47% of the Hungarian population is crammed into one-room dwellings. Still, executive suites in Hungary hum with excitement as managers pore over computer printouts, circling moneymaking products in green, average earners in yellow, and losers in red. Collective farms operate small handcraft industries. Budapest's fashionable Váci Utca, now closed to auto traffic, is packed with shoppers who stroll past well-stocked jewelry shops, delicatessens, bookstores and up-to-the-minute boutiques...
...Thus the extruded titanium masts and polyester sails that are standard on U.S. boats were ruled out because France does not produce such things. As for the mammoth "coffee grinder" winches vital for racing twelves, no one had seen anything like them in France. Bich had to design and handcraft his from scratch...