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...Staten Island ferry in early morning, when even ghastly buildings like those of the World Trade Center look good." Hughes lives happily in a 2,300-sq.-ft. loft-his "plywood palazzo"-but, when pressed, he picks the man to design his dream house: New York's Richard Meier, whose work he analyzes in this week's story. And Hughes would have Cover Subject Philip Johnson whip up a "gazebo-cum-study...
...extreme lie the clear, exquisitely modulated voids and surfaces of post-Corbusian designers like Richard Meier, 44, and Charles Gwathmey, 40. In between fall still more manners and interests: the glass caverns of Cesar Pelli, 42; the complicated linguistic play with Pop and history practiced by Robert Venturi, 53, and his firm in Philadelphia; the no less complex, but somewhat less ironic and more playful historicism of Charles Moore, 53, and Robert Stern, 39; the slangy, "high-tech" flexibility of Hugh Hardy, 46, and his firm, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer; the outright jokiness of Stanley Tigerman...
...that asceticism may also be quoted. The work of Richard Meier in particular, and to a lesser extent that of Charles Gwathmey and Michael Graves, is permeated by the Corbusian dream of the "white world," the building as a metaphor of clarity, order and singularity set against the enveloping otherness of nature. (If Mies and the grid-internationalists have ceased to be quotable, Le Corbusier has not; and the difference is due to the richness of Corbu's ideas, his use of volume and surface rather than abstract space.) Meier's architecture is highly abstract, but it is not inhospitable...
Charles Gwathmey relates the purity of Meier's buildings, and his own, to direct expression rather than a longing for the abstract or Utopian form: "Our work has been called very abstract, but we wanted the exterior and interior of the building to be simultaneous. The form is derived
...higher the price, and the better the quality, the more they are buying. Furs and jewels are selling as if buyers thought minks were becoming an endangered species and South Africa's mines were giving out. Reports John Eyler, merchandising manager for Oregon's Meier and Frank department stores: "We've never sold so much fine china or silver. It's selling like crazy." Adds Lasker Meyer, senior vice president of the Houston-based Foley's chain: "Our big-ticket items have been very strong...