Word: knoll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swarm of landscape gardeners and foresters came in, built an artificial lake to highlight the building. To adorn the setting Sculptor Noguchi chiseled a brooding group of druidical forms, which President Wilde likes but frankly calls "a puzzlement." For the interiors, pert, petite Florence Knoll of Knoll Associates furnished new chairs and desks designed to help tradition-bound insurance executives relax in 12-ft.-by-12-ft. offices surrounded by chrome and bold, cheery fabrics...
LIFE AT HAPPY KNOLL (167 pp.) - John P. Marquand- Little, Brown...
...return, or men in grey flannel suits may make unconvincing passes at fellow members' wives, but no one ever did a full-dress, inside-the-country-club story-until that Boswell of the American upper middle class, John P. Marquand, took on the task. Life at Happy Knoll (a series of sketches that first appeared in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED) is deftly ironic social comedy, as slight as the shorts of Happy Knoll's women members and as smooth as the club's putting greens...
...saga of Happy Knoll is told in a series of letters, most of them from Roger Horlick, harassed member of the board of governors, to Albert Magill, the club's president emeritus, well-heeled elder statesman and occasional philosopher-he has been known to compare Happy Knoll to the Baths of Caracalla. For all its outward bonhomie, the Horlick-Magill correspondence chronicles a perpetual crisis -settling foundations, unsettled bar bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks...
...enameled aluminum pedestal. The plastic seats are of tulip-shaped organic design, can have richly colored cushions to temper modern simplicity with elegance. The tables, in neutral colors, will be topped with marble or fine wood. Saarinen's new pieces are scheduled to go into mass production at Knoll Associates in September, will sell in the medium-price range...