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Christmas came early for New York Artist James Steinmeyer: last July, to be precise. That is when he got a note from an admirer of his interior illustrations for House & Garden asking him to design her family's Christmas card. Steinmeyer, 32, was only too delighted to comply, since his hopeful patron was Nancy Reagan. Steinmeyer's gouache of the White House Red Room was mailed last week to some 60,000 of the First Family's friends, relatives and political supporters. Paid for by the Republican National Committee, the card carries the message, "The President...
...turn of the century came a new list of modern trinkets for the Harvard man who had everything. A 1908 Rambler Roadster topped the list at $2250.00--perfect for that spin around the park. The vehicle contained all the latest technological advances, including a rumble seat and leather interior. Serious recreation seekers could reach Bermuda in only 45 hours, aboard the new twin screw S. S. Bermudia. And to take home to the family, the 1908 Harvard Yearbook bound in Crimson and lettered in Gold sold for one dollar...
...clothes make the man, interior decoration can sometimes be a vivid expression of the soul of a society. American Decorative Arts by Robert Bishop and Patricia Coblentz (Abrams; 405 pages; $65) forages through the American experience as expressed in its furniture and furnishings. The volume begins with a 1629 hooded wicker cradle, medieval in its lines, then follows the American progress from straight-backed Puritan spareness through the clotting commercial optimism and extravagance of the 19th century, and on into the 20th with its Saarinen plastic pedestal chairs and the eerie metaphysical fatuousness of Andy Warhol's wallpaper decorated...
...understand that at last I had removed a big tombstone off myself. It wasn't one of those from my interior graveyard, but the huge tombstone which covers the Jews. I could do it because it wasn't betrayal, or a subterfuge. I had discovered where to place it and how not to forget it. The country could accept the Holocaust as a measure of its destiny, not simply within the framework of remembrance and lament...
...Glenn Miller. While these things are not antipodal, it is hard to envisage Mr. Andropov among friends singing gypsy tunes, as he is said to do, in a "pleasant light tenor," then switching abruptly to The Twist or Pennsylvania 6-5000. Still, the image is peppy. The question of interior decoration has come up as well. In one account Mr. Andropov's home is graced with "European furniture," and in another with "modern Hungarian furniture." Unless one has an unusually precise idea of the modern Hungarian style, one strains to characterize Mr. Andropov by his possessions...