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Next he began picking up objects and juxtaposing them with the painted canvas. His use of the object can be seen as something of a contemporary parallel to the 19th century American still-life painters Peto and Harnett, who in their trompe-ľoeil arrangements of everydayobjects anticipated many of the same concerns that preoccupied the new realists of the 1960s. One Dine's most successful "combines" is a 1962 work in which an actual lawnmower is mounted in front of the canvas. Green paint clings to the blades like bits of fresh-cut grass, while the handle guides...
...when somebody writes an encyclopaedia of restaurants, the name Ellman may be close to Escoffier - and not just alphabetically. Auguste Escoffier left the world crepes suzette and peach Melba, but in his own way Larry Ell man is equally inventive. He has given the world the trompe l'oeil restaurant. His idea is to sell atmosphere and let atmosphere sell food...
...some moveable bookshelves are the objects which make the bookstore-coffee shop the most novel in Cambridge. They are magazines, in almost every Romance language and covering a wide variety of topics: Paris Match is there, so is L'Oeil, U.S. News and the Atlantic Monthly, and L'Arte de Modelle, the best Italian art magazine. In the European fashion, where newspapers are often available for the customer, these magazines are there to be read while having coffee or lunch...
...book is about anything, it is about the disintegration of a family. And, typically, at the same time it is about the disintegration of a story about the disintegration of a family. Hence the title, Histoire, which means both history and story-an indication of the trompe 1'oeil that gives the novel its mystifying rhythm of now-you-see-it, now-you-don't. Swimming through the pages with nothing stronger than a colon to slow them are fragments of memories, conversations, odors, tastes, tactile sensations and dim images from old postcards. Somewhere below, finning almost motionlessly...
...Manhattan Decorator Billy Baldwin not only covered the hassocks with suede but even turned a pack of scavenging jackals into a luxurious rug. Busy patterns, thinks Bloomingdale's Interior Design Chief David Bell, will be increasingly used to make small apartment rooms appear bigger through trompe-l'oeil. At the moment, the most popular style of furniture, at least in the mass market, is Early American, but a change may be in the wind. "With the 1930s being revived in fashion," says Dabbie Daniels, a senior decorator at Manhattan's W & J Sloane, the nation...