Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Antimacassars & Battleships. In the center of the exhibition, a specially commissioned mural by New Yorker Cartoonist Saul Steinberg put the modern designer's dilemma into squiggly perspective. In one panel, Artist Steinberg had drawn a cross-section of a block of walk-up apartments: "modern" studios sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg...
...Detroit show, successfully avoiding the fake modern Steinberg abhorred, managed to make its biggest point: with a sharp eye and a little persistence the average shopper could find enough handsome, well-designed contemporary furnishings to fill any modern home...
Until now, he added, little has been done with discriminate functions when it is desired to split the population into three or four parts. The lack of progress is mainly due to the very heavy computational work that would be associated with proper formulation of such a problem. As modern computing machinery becomes available to scientists, Mosteller stated, they will no longer be so reluctant to formulate problems which require heavy computation...
Features anticipated since the laying of the cornerstone in March, 1948, include a self-service elevator, numerous small social and meeting rooms, modern kitchen facilities, and a quantity of double rooms in addition to the ever-present and else-where (in the Cliffe) super-abundant singles...
...conserve space and expense, the rooms in the new building were made as small as practically possible, but efficient designing and placing of the modern furniture has made use of all available floor space, and the result is living quarters as comfortable as older, larger ones, and which are more convenient and easier to to clean...