Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been embalmed, as maraschinos are-bleached white with formaldehyde and then dyed. Breyers and other producers of the natural article make do with the real thing-dark red to black, imperfect and not dyed. At the other end of the frozen rainbow from Breyers are Marty Rex and Marcel Arsenault. They were writing their doctoral dissertations in molecular biology ten years ago at the University of Colorado at Boulder, when Arsenault's homemade ice cream turned out to be so popular at parties they tried selling a few gallons to stores during the summer break. They...
...DIED. Marcel Breuer, 79, Hungarian-born designer and architect whose sculptural use of steel and concrete helped shape the furniture and buildings of the 20th century; of heart disease; in New York City. Working with Walter Gropius at Germany's famous Bauhaus during the 1920s, Breuer was inspired by the curve of bicycle handles to design his celebrated tubular steel and leather Wassily chair (named for Painter Wassily Kandinsky, one of its first purchasers). After leaving the Bauhaus in 1928, he created the simple steel and cane Cesca chair, which, like the Wassily, remains a ubiquitous furnishing today. Breuer...
...Marcel L. Breuer, the world-renowned architect who taught at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) from 1937 to 1946, died at his home in New York City last Wednesday...
Harvard's role in the whole affair became a little clearer when, at the banquet, Stephen Swid, vice-chairman of GFL/Knoll, presented the first GFL/Knoll Creative Leadership Award to Marcel Breuer, a designer and architect who taught at Harvard in the '30s and '40s. Illness prevented Breuer--celebrated for the tubular steel chair that bears his name--from attending the presentation...
From time to time, though a few words were audible. Constance Breuer, accepting for her husband: "I first met Marcel Breuer in Robinson Hall. "Stephen Swid, introducing Bok: "President Bok is no stranger to the arts." Bok, accepting the grant: "The greatness of American universities is due in part to the place they gave European architects." Marshall Cogan, chairman of GFI Knoll, closing the presentation: "Enjoy yourself, everyone. Drink, and have a wonderful time...