Word: interiorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowhere is that fact more apparent than in the 14 remarkable homes (including two apartments) owned or rented in the U.S. and abroad by the Kennedy clan. They are not remarkable as showpieces of architecture, interior design or luxury-in fact, considering the Kennedy wealth, they are relatively modest. The establishments are far beyond average pocketbook, and they have the kind of unobtrusive casualness that is far more expensive than it looks, but their total effect is one of warmth, not wealth. What their fellow citizens can see in the Kennedys' homes is taste-not of the avantgarde, pace...
Waystop for the Kennedys abroad is the villa Vista Bella, rented every summer since 1957 by Joe Kennedy (for $2,000 a month) at Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera. The interior of the villa is as dark as a cave, and is an idle mixture of Louis XV, Louis XVI, Chinese and Magyar decorative styles. Plumbing is in the classic French tradition: huge tiled arenas with a tangled network of pipes and valves from which issue alarming gurgles and lukewarm, pale-beige water. The main attraction of the house is its distance from the crowded resorts...
...great trek from Cape Colony to the Transvaal, a thousand miles to the north. The hero (Stuart Whitman), an N.C.O. in the British cavalry and an s.o.b. in everybody's book, deserts with two buddies (Ken Scott, Rafer Johnson) and hitches a ride to the interior with a wagon train of Dutch Voortrekkers...
...shape: a Denver store owner contributed paint and paid for painting, a doctor spent his vacation repairing the steps, a man from Columbus put in two weeks repairing the organ. Bats and rats were ousted; a new roof was put on; broken windows were replaced; the interior was replastered; and more than 50 people began showing up for Sunday services...
...Corp. fortnight ago showed off a new line of all-aluminum houses, plans to produce them at the rate of 200 a day by December 1962. With aluminum curtain walls in 12-ft. sections, the Alside houses can be built to any size the buyer wants. Also featured: aluminum interior walls, ceilings, doors. Price for a fully equipped, seven-room, 1,512-sg.-ft. house...