Word: ornamenting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dogmatism. The years 1900 to 1930 bristle with formulas and coercive epigrams: "Form follows function," "The house is a machine for living in," and so forth. Mies van der Rohe's "Less is more" was prefigured by the Viennese architect Adolf Loos' belief, published in Vienna in 1908, that ornament was crime: "We have outgrown ornament!" Loos exclaimed. "See, the time is nigh, freedom awaits us. Soon the streets of the City will glisten like white walls, like Zion, the holy city, the capital of heaven! Then fulfillment will come...
...romance in his/her soul, would present a loved one with a stove? Better a filmy negligee or even a velour shirt (both went well this winter). Better yet, a Fendi sable coat (Bergdorf's catalogue sold three at $18,500 apiece), a $500 cashmere robe or any ornament made of gold, the invaluable metal that fetched some $220 an ounce on the London market last week. Tiny gold pendants in the shape of oil barrels went for $850 and solid gold nuggets for $950. Tiffany's diamond-studded gold watch was a bargain. Its price...
...Although they were inferior in status to men, the argument goes, they worked so hard that they didn't have time to worry about it. The post-industrial romanticist maintains that women should remain in the home as before. But the authors argue that gradually the woman becomes an ornament, left with an unproductive, circumscribed life...
...Berlin paid the top price of the auction: $2,214,000 for a gleaming Mosan medallion made in A.D. 1150 for the Abbey of Stavelot in Belgium. On behalf of the Nuremberg art museum, a London dealer paid $2,029,500 for another 12th century enamel, an arm ornament made for Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa's coronation robe...
...that people require more ornament, not less?" asks Philip Johnson, who was once a prime exponent of the "less is more" school of architecture. Now he sees the beginning of a new era and, at 71, apparently means to enter it full tilt. His recent design for the AT&T headquarters in Manhattan has been dubbed "the world's first Chippendale skyscraper." But criticism of the project didn't stop the American Institute of Architects from honoring Johnson by presenting him with its prestigious Gold Medal last week. Some past recipients: Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright...