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That era, in all its extravagance and charm, makes an eye-and heart-catching comeback in two Manhattan exhibitions. The first, at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, runs through July 10; it is a handsomely displayed presentation of 213 objects from the collection of Britain's royal family and other English owners. The second, being held through May 21 by the venerable Fifth Avenue store A la Vieille Russie, is the largest collection of Fabergé ever assembled; many of the 560 pieces are being exhibited for the first time...
...specifically claimed that he spent nearly half of last year out of New York City reporting stories. Said Bradley to TIME: "It was a bunch of lies." The purported criticisms from colleagues, all made in unattributed quotes, were contradicted in separate letters to TV Guide by: Executive Producer Don Hewitt and Correspondents Harry Reasoner, Morley Safer and Mike Wallace; David Burke, a former 60 Minutes producer now working for rival NBC; and 16 staffers at 60 Minutes, who said that Ribowsky did not interview any of them...
...Scandinavian Modern: 1880-1980," the dazzling exhibition that opens this week at New York City's Cooper-Hewitt Museum, hits us, therefore, like a massive surprise attack. Some 330 masterworks of furniture, ceramics, glass, metalwork and textiles show that Scandinavian design is not so much a style as a visual morality, a powerful force for beauty and meaning. Nor is the modern mode of Scandinavian design frozen into an abstract machine aesthetic. It is a creative way of meeting changing practical and emotional needs. Seen in this context, Danish modern is fresh, exciting and timeless. Like Finnish Architect Alvar...
...Cooper-Hewitt, which is the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design, has organized and displayed this exhibition with its usual flair. Scandinavian design, says the museum's sumptuous exhibition catalogue (published in hard cover by Harry N. Abrams, Inc.; $45), "scatters flowers before your feet and lays the pale colors and mild beauty of the Nordic summer before your eyes. Less apparent is the truth that this sunny effect is achieved against a background of darkness, cold, ice and snow...
...Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland a common quality. It is a painstaking, brooding, almost mystical devotion to perfection in craftsmanship and thoughtfulness in art. The effort is focused on the home because for many snowed-in months there is no other place to focus on. Says Cooper-Hewitt Curator of Decorative Arts David Revere McFadden, who organized the show: "Whether they are made by hand or machine, Scandinavia's virtuoso designs are both art and craft. Distinction between the two would merely spoil our joy of appreciating them...