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Where Friendly perceives Miller's "great instinct." Pollack recognizes his great "TV savvy." Don Hewitt, the Executive Producer of "60 Minutes," participated in a Miller moderated seminar. "He's a great performer," Hewitt says...
This aspect of Wright's work is exemplified in "Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School," a show of more than 250 furnishings, drawings, photographs and documents that opened last week at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's national museum of design. The exhibition, which will run until Dec. 31, is an almost intimately informal survey of Wright's brilliant beginnings, from his tracing of a Louis Sullivan ornament in 1892 to his drawings for the Dorothy Martin Foster House in Buffalo in 1923, which marked a new direction...
...This thing we call the Machine," he said in 1901, "is no more or less than the principle of organic growth working irresistibly the Will of Life through the medium of Man." But machine products, he believed, must be designed by artists. The objects on view at the Cooper-Hewitt remind us of what could be achieved with such a shaping vision...
...nine include the richly ornamented Peter the Great Egg (1903) and the Mosaic Egg (1914) which is perhaps the most elegant of all. It is in the Cooper-Hewitt show and may be worth $1 million. Presented to his wife Alexandra Fyodorovna by Nicholas II in 1914, the 3⅝-in.-high egg is made of intertwining gold belts and platinum mesh set with diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, topaz, quartz and garnets. The surprise inside is an oval plaque of gold, pearl and enamel on which are painted the profiles of the five royal children, all of whom were...
Inevitably, a few of these more artless trinkets stray into kitsch. But for the most part, suggests A. Kenneth Snowman, jeweler by appointment to the royal family and guest curator for the Cooper-Hewitt exhibition, they should be judged by the affable spirit in which [they] were originally created-an uncomplicated desire to give pleasure, albeit within the framework of an efficiently organized business house." Another scholar, Sir Roy Strong of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, observes that Fabergé's work "was almost the last expression of court art within the European tradition, which brings with...