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If "less is more," in Architect Mies van der Rohe's famed phrase, this winter's new handbags are the most. Smaller than the standard envelope, minibags can be clutched in the hand, slung across a shoulder, hung from the neck or draped from the waist. The smaller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Baglets | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

Aalto is utterly unconcerned with architectural movements or polemics. He deflects theoretical discussions with the imperious reply: "I build." For him, every structure poses its own questions of balance between man, machines and nature. Every answer is therefore fresh, poetic, charged with the identity of its architect. Mies van der...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Maestro's Late Works | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

Europe's designers are also among the most ardent believers in the necessity of conserving basic materials, both natural and manmade. Says Britain's Martin Roberts, chief industrial designer for the successful chain of Habitat stores, which offer tasteful, basic home furnishings: "With the world as it is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Those Designing Europeans | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

The Bauhaus, that pedagogic test bed of total design that started in Weimar 55 years ago and was shut down by Hitler in 1933, now seems almost as remote as William Morris' workshop or Verrocchio's studio. It has become part of the "golden legend" of modernism. Except...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Superb Puritan | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

But the Israeli presence was no joke. There was a traffic jam at the canal that stretched back for miles. Tanks, trucks and vans of every description-many with ON TO CAIRO scrawled on their sides-waited their turn to cross the bridges. The western bank was swarming with men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYEWITNESSES: Reports from the Cease-Fire Fronts | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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