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...convey. Although we may be fleetingly thrilled, we are surely not satisfied with what fashionable ulterior design offers today. The model living room, as depicted in the stores and decorator magazines, has become America's disaster area. We have a choice between bizarrely abstract furnishings in chrome or lacquer, alienated from living reality, and eclectic kitsch heaped on like the toppings on ice cream sundaes-not much of a choice. -By Wolf Von Eckardt
High-quality Mexican leather goods are a particularly choice buy: handmade boots for $20, handbags from $15 up. Exquisite native handcrafts cost so little that five Continental Airline stewardesses flew to Mexico City this month just to shop for items like black Oaxaca pottery vases for 23? each. Olinola lacquer boxes, with their distinctive red-and-black animal designs, sell for as little as $2.50; designer clothes and auto rentals can also be very cheap. A cab ride across downtown Mexico City costs...
...there are novelty seekers whose work resembles sculpture more than furniture. Leading them is Vladimir Kagan, 55, many of whose sofas, desks, chairs and bedroom furnishings are custom-made with Plexiglas, marble, bronze, leather, lacquer or textiles. Kagan's work lacks the devout simplicity of pure crafts manship and often looks as though it had been swiped from the set of Fellini's La Dolce Vita...
...their trip expenses as well as the honorarium. That explains a $10,000 notation found on the envelope that Allen had received. The interview, which lasted for ten minutes at most, took place in the White House on Jan. 21. One of the Japanese women gave Mrs. Reagan a lacquer box (valued at $75), which she turned over to White House officials. Allen stepped forward when another of the women tried to give Mrs. Reagan an envelope and some newsclippings. When asked by one of the women to sign a receipt for the envelope, Allen declined. He did not return...
Crowds in U.S. cities have been equally curious about the traveling Chinese show. Western eyes are delighted by fine Peking porcelain vases, trays made of glowing cinnebar lacquer and Ching dynasty emperors' robes of embroidered yellow silk as thin as a breath of air. Visitors have also been intrigued by a large dragon vase that is said to be able to determine the severity of an earthquake by the way a set of balls rolls from the dragon's mouth into those of the eight toads below...