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Neutra’s designs, however, were less formal and more pragmatic than those of many of his contemporaries, concentrating more on materials and methods than form. This exactly suited the temperament of a young philanthropist, John Nicholas Brown, who was looking to build a summer home on Fishers Island, R.I., for his family. Brown was a Harvard-educated man with a life-long passion for modern art and architecture. Interested in medieval art during the early 1920s, he collaborated with the architect Ralph Adams Cram to design the interior of the Gothic Chapel at St. George?...
...only giving Knafel’s name to one of the center’s two main buildings, the naming rights of the other building were freed to entice another philanthropist...
...change of heart. In 1982 it opened its Rockefeller Wing, which absorbed the entire contents of the Museum of Primitive Art. Smaller galleries have echoed this trend. In September the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, N.Y., will display a trove of 145 pieces donated by philanthropist Lawrence Gussman. Next year the exhibition will travel to the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian...
DIED. HEINZ PRECHTER, 59, creator of the car sunroof, philanthropist and generous supporter of Bush family campaigns; of suicide by hanging; in Grosse Ile, Mich. Prechter came to the U.S. from Bavaria in 1964 and, with $764 in savings, started up his sunroof business in a California garage; its annual sales now total half a billion dollars. Though described by all as "dynamic," he was being treated for severe clinical depression, from which he had suffered for years...
...anything he has done put Clinton in danger of ostracism in New York. He was never going to fit in with the city's blue bloods. A snooty Manhattan philanthropist suggested at a dinner party last week that it is the Clintons themselves who should be pardoned: "They are, after all, so unsophisticated. They are from Arkansas. They don't know about people who go to Switzerland." But the money-media-fashion-fame crowd that makes up Manhattan's most interesting social set--a highly mobile, mutually exploitative crowd for which it's better to be interesting than good--will...