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...March 20, 2000, cover of TIME called the rebirth of design "commodity chic"). But why are creators of fashion, home and industrial design suddenly looking back for inspiration? Maybe the '50s era appeals to Americans because it was the last time we felt truly optimistic. As design guru Murray Moss says, it's the values of that decade that draw us back; we want products that are more emotional. Perhaps we also live in a time when we want security in every detail. --Kate Betts
...things that are attractive are not particularly stylistic but have more to do with values," says Murray Moss, who owns Moss, a New York City design mecca. "It's a broader issue, that for lack of a better word we say the '50s [because] the closest we can relate to it are feelings that we haven't had since then." The mythology of the time looms so large that even the generations that didn't live through the era yearn for it today...
...pendulum would swing back toward products with the mark of the human hand. A similar return to warmer, more emotional design occurred in the 1950s in response to the cold minimalism that dominated the preceding decades. "It's the old caveman thing. We like reflections of ourselves," says Moss. "We can never get too far away from the recognition in these objects of human involvement." For example, KitchenAid's new Pro Line is designed to reinforce the notion that it's the cook, not the machine, that's making the difference in the kitchen. The displays on the espresso maker...
...case, the law is the target, but it is powerless before love. The fairy Iolanthe (Celia R. Maccoby ’07), pardoned after a twenty-five-year banishment from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal, has a half-fairy (the upper half) son, named Strephon (Michael Moss ’03). Strephon is in love with Phyllis (Lisa D. Lareau ’06), who, as an orphan, has been entrusted to the court of chancery and is dependent on the permission of the Lord Chancellor to get married; unfortunately, the entire house of Lords, including...
...portrayed as an American. Spitzer, as the Lord Chancellor, wears a constantly pained look at his moral dilemma and is also one of the more convincingly old men I have seen portrayed by college students. The selfless Iolanthe, played sweetly by Maccoby, displays completely genuine goodwill toward the world. Moss and Lareau, playing the two young lovers, are cheerfully blithe and unconcerned at everything, including their own love (“If we’re weak enough to tarry / Ere we marry / You and I / Of the feeling I inspire / You may tire...