Word: maremont
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Automobile carburetors have little in common with the visionary paintings of Paul Klee, but Arnold Maremont is a devoted connoisseur of both. Mare mont, 59, is president of Chicago's Maremont Corp., a leader in the greasy, $7 billion business of making spare parts for old cars. Yet he runs his firm from a low ebony coffee-table desk, surrounded by modern paintings and chairs by Mies van der Rohe, is as elegant and impeccably dressed as if he were managing Tiffany's. All this seems to help: he has built Maremont's sales from $30 million...
Iris gave an open-palace party that was attended, if sometimes only briefly, by "everybody."' The next night, the Chicago collectors Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Maremont chartered a vaporetto to take 130 guests to dine on the island of Torcello. After dinner, a band was brought in and everyone did the twist, including British Sculptor Lynn Chadwick and René d'Harnoncourt, the chief dignitary from Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...trend is a logical outgrowth of the deskless office. Since most executives want to show that they are policy thinkers who leave routine paperwork to underlings, desks have tended to disappear. Furthermore, explains Arnold Maremont, president of Chicago's automotive products firm, the Maremont Corp.: "A man sitting behind a desk is a man on horseback. He becomes a dictator." The same desire for informality applies in the board room. Abandoning the austere, paneled room built around a massive, no-nonsense board table, directors of more and more firms sit on upholstered chairs and comfortable couches, chat over...