Word: one-of-a-kind
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Hollywood, which experienced something of a motorcycle and Volkswagen phase a couple of years ago, is back to glamour cars with a vengeance. Last year 120 Rolls-Royces were sold in Beverly Hills alone. Polly Bergen traded in her new Mercedes for a one-of-a-kind 1957 Bentley convertible, while Dick Martin and Elvis Presley have bought $35,000 Stutz Blackhawks. Steve McQueen recently wanted a very special present for his friend Ali MacGraw-a limited-edition 1969 Mercedes 280-3 convertible. A dealer found one in St. Louis and had it flown to Los Angeles only to have...
...glop into dazzlingly new and comfortable forms. The European furniture failed to sell well in the U.S., however, largely because its prices were too high for the average American buyer. When domestic plastic furniture began coming onto the American market about five years ago, the pieces were mostly one-of-a-kind and also expensive. Now, mass production is solving the cost problem. It has resulted in plastic Parsons tables that sell for only one-third the price of the traditional wooden variety. It has also enabled New York City Designer Neal Small, whose cocktail tables of clear or smoked...
...county $1,000,000 a year more in taxes unless the owners can persuade the courts to overturn the increase. The nation needs fewer but better-trained chief assessors-certainly no more than one per county. They should be appointed and subject to strict supervision by state review boards that could also provide specialized expertise for such complex tasks as valuing one-of-a-kind industrial complexes. Among other things, this would make it more difficult for political machines to sell underassessment in return for campaign contributions...
These intensely personal works find favor with modern architects and interior designers, who like the handmade, one-of-a-kind individuality they bring to austere apartment and office buildings. They also appeal to the young. A few weeks ago a white-bearded professor from France's tradition-bound Academic des Beaux-Arts asked Sheila Hicks to give a course in tapestries, "but not the factory kind." To his young students, even the highly abstract "woven paintings" of Mategot are out of date...
...Woman Who Dares. The U.S. has only one genuine established couturier in the Parisian sense of the word, meaning a designer who makes one-of-a-kind dresses for individual cus tomers. He is Manhattan's aging Mainbocher, 75, born Main Rousseau Bocher in Chicago-and his dresses can be seen on "CeeZee" Guest and "Babs" Paley. But the wave of the future really lies with the younger designers who produce ready-to-wear. To Marc Bohan of Christian Dior in Paris, California's puckish Rudi Gernreich, 44, is the standout. No designer for conformists, he will...