Word: ornamentations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nebraska prairie a building indigenous to its time and place. Its dun-colored masses are simple-a great flat base; a slim domed tower which rises more than 400 ft. In style it is mysterious-something of vanished Assyrian strongholds; something of Byzantine vaults, domes and mosaic ornament; something of simple Mayan massiveness. Perhaps the style is best called Nebraskan. The history
...walls, the austere faces of great lawgivers survey the prairies-Hammurabi, Moses, Pharaoh, Solon, Solomon, the Caesars, Charlemagne, Napoleon. No carven motto is more obvious than that above the Supreme Court bench: "Eyes and ears are poor witnesses when the soul is barbarous." All of the ornament has significance and is worked into the fabric of the building. The Goodhue family are oldtime Connecticut dwellers. Architect Goodhue was born in Pomfret Hill. Not for him was the European interlude enjoyed by most architecture students. At the age of 16 he went from Russel's Collegiate & Commercial Institute...
Architects are often heard scoffing at interior decorators. They feel that their own diligent study of ornament and design is a better basis for indoor work than the fancies of a chintzy enthusiast. In- teresting therefore is the exhibition, now at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, of modernist interiors conceived by seven architects, a landscape architect and a ceramic worker...
...defense. Reason: the Belle's jewelry was invisible in the Louvre Xray. This indicated that the painter of the Louvre Belle had first laid down metallic flesh tints (impermeable by X-rays) then painted the jewelry over them. The practice of blocking out the whole figure before adding ornament is favored by artists working from live models. But in the Hahn X-ray the jewelry was clearly visible suggesting that the Hahn Belle had first been carefully sketched then colored in separate sections-flesh, fabric, jewelry. This is a practice favored by copyists...
President Arthur, "the dilettante mid-Victorian, the ornament of New York club life, draped hangings of pomegranate plush over windows and mantels, built a partition of colored glass across the entrance hall, caused potted palms to spring from the red plush carpets and otherwise strove to reproduce in the interior the funereal effects that prevailed in the homes of wealthy New Yorkers of the period...