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...particularly memorable project, he recalls, was a plan to create a foam rubber teapot, which necessitated something from which to make the mold. The answer: Kiely loaned him the House's silver teapot without flinching--"probably an heirloom," Fitch says. He never told Kiely about how the Plaster of Paris and other chemicals almost didn't come off the silver...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Caped Crusader | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

...four foot-tall plaster pedestal and a wrought-iron flower pot were stolen from Annenberg Hall during the President's Dance Saturday night, according to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, | Title: Furnishings Stolen During First-Year Dance | 3/24/1999 | See Source »

...four-foot tall plaster pedestal and a wrought-iron flower pot were stolen from Annenberg Hall during the President's Dance on Saturday night, sources said...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Theft during Presidents Dance at Annenberg | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

...work for the fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped as the mannequins cavort and tremble at their shadows, which chase them among the neoclassical columns that decorated their stages and pedestals...

Author: By Nadia ANYMONE Michelle berenstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WOLS Wolfgang Otto Schulze | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...work for the fashion pavilion at the 1937 Paris World's Fair continues his studies of the form and figure. The Surrealist ambitions of Couturier's De Chirico-like mannequins, with their featureless faces and heavily textured plaster surface, apparently appealed to Wols. Cloth is more carved than draped as the mannequins cavort and tremble at their shadows, which chase them among the neoclassical columns that decorated their stages and pedestals...

Author: By Nadia ANYMONE Michelle berenstein, | Title: Wols (Wolfgang Otto Schulze) | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

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