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Both Roosevelt and Churchill have to deal with millions of troops deployed around the world, but both subscribe implicitly to Mies van der Rohe's dictum that God is in the details. Churchill loves to think up code names and refers to himself as Former Naval Person. But when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eavesdropping on History | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

The lounge chair, which Diffrient named for Jefferson, has none of the sleek elegance of the chaise longues designed by Mies van der Rohe or Le Corbusier, nor the coziness of the Eames lounge chair. But then, none of them is adjustable and completely comfortable. In designing his Jefferson chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: A Chair with All the Angles | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

If it has, the politics are those of anarchy. The group's 185 pieces of seating, storage, fabrics, rugs and accessories, produced over the past three years, loudly refute the tubular chrome-and-black-leather commandments of accepted modern style. Their form follows fantasy, and they owe more to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Wild Beat of Memphis | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

A decade ago, when the brand-new International Style in architecture was seriously taken up by U. S. architects, many of them were surprised to discover that Wright had been its forerunner 30 years before, that by great European architects such as Mies van der Rohe he was regarded as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART 1938: Usonian Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

For a brief moment in the 1960s, a group of architects inspired by Kenzo Tange and calling themselves Metabolists schemed to escape the mess with Utopian megastructures built into the sky or the sea. Having come back to earth, ex-Metabolists Fumihiko Maki, 54, and Arata Isozaki, 52, Japan'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Just So of the Swerve and Line | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

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