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...square feet of ground and second-story space in Madison Avenue's Hotel Carlyle, at 77th Street facing Parke-Bernet's auction headquarters. To give his gallery a really new look, Mayer called in as architects M.I.T.-educated Armand Bartos, 46, and Vienna-born Frederick J. Kiesler, 64, famed for such pioneering structures as his 1920 houses cantilevered out from masts like suspension bridges and his 1952 egg-shaped "Endless House...
...Home, 10 to 5." For pint-sized (4 ft. 10 in.) Experimentalist Kiesler, whose radical departures have landed him more commissions for models than buildings, the World House was the first opportunity in decades to see his continuous-flowing forms grow to lifesize. Inside the entrance, an aluminum-covered ceiling slopes upward toward a two-story interior patio with a white marble island surrounded by a jet-fed black glass pool. A glass-sided stairway leading to the second floor is supported at pinpoints on a white Alabama marble cantilever protruding from a structural steel pillar that swells and tapers...
...help of an all-star advisory committee of top architects, museum directors and Swiss Art and Architecture Historian Sigfried Giedion: Sculptor-Welders Harry Bertoia, 41, of Barto, Pa., Joseph Goto, 36, of Chicago and Keith Monroe, 39, of San Francisco; Painter Walter Kuhlman, 38, of San Francisco; Architects Frederick Kiesler, 64, of New York City and Paul Nelson, 62, an American now practicing in Paris; Painter-Film-Maker James Edward Davis, 55, of Princeton, N.J.; Chicago Photographer Harry Callahan, 44, and French Critic Jean Leymarie...
Almost inevitably, Kiesler's idea will be taken up by other artists and carried to greater heights of execution. He has planted the seed for a new kind of art, and inevitably opened for himself a whole new era of damnation and deification...
...distant relative of Vienna-born Hedy Kiesler, who became Hedy Lamarr...