Word: municher
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...sprouting from extravagant hats, British Designer Cecil Beaton drew on childhood memories of Edwardian England at the turn of the century. He thereby put the movie right in the current stylistic swim. For a decade the revival of art nouveau has been building in nostalgic museum shows in London, Munich and New York; now it has burst on Western Europe and is spreading...
...year or two ago would have sold for $30 or less, recently brought $130, sending antique dealers scurrying to their basements in search of other long-discarded bric-a-brac. In Britain, where the revival has fired popular fancy, William Morris prints are the current fashion fabric hit. Munich's taste-setting decorator store, Die Einrichtung, recently supplemented its modern pieces with settees, rosewood chests, chairs, shelves and ceramics whose curvaceous shape and exotic flavor display kinship with the tenets of Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect, designer, and leading prophet of art nouveau 70 years...
...London's Victoria and Albert Museum organized a great retrospective exhibit. In Germany, where the sway of the Jugendstil (as art nouveau was called there and in Austria) had been total and the counterblow of the 1920s most radical, rediscovery began in 1958 with a big show at Munich's Haus der Kunst. In the U.S. the comprehensive 1960 "Art Nouveau" exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art launched the rediscovery...
...most serious mistake that U.S. businessmen fall into is their habit of regarding Western Europe as a 51st state, forgetting that a product or business technique that goes over big in Memphis will not necessarily succeed in Munich. The Common Market notwithstanding, Western Europe is still composed of individual nations and sections that have widely different tastes and buying idiosyncrasies. Says Belgium's Marcel de Meirleir, a plant-location expert: "Americans just don't understand that, for instance, Rotterdam and Antwerp are commercially not just two different cities-they're different worlds...
...million- or 23% of its $3.2 billion revenue-that the Bundesbahn pours each year into modernizing its tracks, trains and service. Its 9,000 electric and diesel locomotives glide in jolt-free quiet over continuously welded tracks. Its 100-m.p.h., all-first-class superexpresses, like the Dortmund-Munich Rheinpfeil (Rhine Arrow), offer such amenities as a four-course dinner for less than $2.50, worldwide telephone service, and multilingual secretaries at $1.50 an hour. There is even a female Silberputzer (silver cleaner) to keep chrome polished and to dust the aisles. On regular expresses, second-class passengers can count on spotlessly...