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...Menil is a two-story building some 400 ft. long, clad on the outside with wide-board gray swamp cypress in a white steel frame. Inside, there are black-stained pine floors, and curved concrete louvers that admit a changing wash of daylight through most of the roof. It is plain and delicate, and it sits in its frame-house district of Houston with a perfect sense of context -- which is no surprise, since the Menil Foundation owns most of the houses around it, all of which have been painted the same warm gray. (Gray is to Dominique de Menil...
...pottery at the exclusive Bryanston School, in Dorset. After studying textile design at London's Central School of Design, he free-lanced as a furniture maker before opening a home-furnishings store, called Habitat, in London in 1964. From its rows of white crockery to assemble-it-yourself pine beds and tables, Habitat offered products designed in the modernist tradition of the '30s, a kind of Bauhaus for our house: less is more, natural is better, simple is best...
...pick up hammers and join them on weekends, and throwing parties in partly built houses to celebrate the completion of a foundation or their topping off of a roof. No, the Jersey Devil, which takes its name from a mythical creature said to threaten people in New Jersey's Pine Barrens, is no ordinary architectural firm. But don't get them wrong. Badanes, Jim Adamson, Greg Torchio and John Ringel are serious about what they do, and say it is in the best tradition of the American pioneer spirit...
...trouble was, his college teammates in 1960 included John Havlicek, Jerry Lucas and Larry Siegfried, who went on in the pros to amass 14 championship rings. Knight began on the bench, and is still on the bench. His space in the Hall of Fame has been fashioned out of pine...
...philanthropist," he says. After canvassing the candidates, Clint found his man: "The guy I talked into it was me." Last December he closed the deal for about $5 million and has begun modest restoration work on some of the rental cabins. Says Mac McDonald, managing editor of the Carmel Pine Cone: "What really surprised people was that he bought it to preserve it." Concedes Staunch Foe Swain: "It was a magnificent thing that...