Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after needless delays, the University can proudly display Le Corbusier's first work in the United States. Of Harvard's latest buildings, the Arts Center is certainly the most unusual and attractive, and its interior the most freely designed. The architect has made brilliant and appealing use of natural sunlight and natural ventilation. The Carpenters have contributed generously to the Program, and because of their gift a master of architecture has added genius and beauty to a landscape that badly needs them...
...Interior Decoration
...archaeologists found another brightly colored mosaic-floor in one small room of a Roman villa of the 4th century A.D. "The cleverly interwoven pattern of the mosaic," Hanfmann said, "suggests the highly sophisticated ornamental sense of late Roman interior decorators," To command a view of Sardis, the villa was built high on a cliff above the torrent Pactolus, which once brought gold to the ancient Lydians...
...Somebody got stuck." snorted Milton Glaser, president of the American Institute of Interior Designers, when he heard that $12,500 had been donated to scrape up for the White House some antique wallpaper-still available new in France-for which salvage rights had cost only $50. "Some people like old broken things because they are old and broken down; maybe Mrs. Kennedy is one of them." The supposition produced the first crack in the pale porcelain exterior of Pamela Turnure, 23, the First Lady's decorative press secretary. The remarks, said she, are "undignified and highly inappropriate." Retreated Glaser...
...Mielziner's set is a comic masterpiece of interior decrepitude, a kind of termite's vision of heaven, dominated by a rotting floor-to-ceiling stairway, a fit home, as one character puts it, for "the bride of Dracula." The set speaks, even if the script only stutters...