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Best Design The Eames molded plywood chair, designed by Charles Eames...
...Materials: Steel frame, fire resistant plywood and fire protection system (the original tower burned down in a 1956 blaze), polychrome slate (fading green, red and black), copper finials and the piece de la resistance of four corner brick and stone precipices...
...enthusiasts as she incautiously body-surfed the pit. From the stage, Fred Durst, singer for the aggressively untalented rap-metal band Limp Bizkit, made it explicit: he instructed the audience to "start some s___." Which some of the audience obediently did, scaling the sound tower and ripping away the plywood boards protecting electronic equipment...
...Mazda 929 covered with painted plywood, hovered around campus during Winter Carnival, where Wright made an appearance. But instead of ramming anyone, the students took an off-campus joyride. Officer Graham Baynes, who pulled them over, was obviously a toga-party fan. "The car violated New Hampshire law," says Baynes. "I told them the modifications they needed to make." Such is the state of student revolt these days, the pranksters popped out of the sunroof and meekly attached red bandannas to the vehicle's fins...
...ground for this slicker, more humanized and glamorous version of modernism than the Bauhaus produced. It had the climate and the light. It had the talent, the money and the daring to support a new design movement. And of course there was all that postwar production capacity. Eames' molded plywood chairs, in fact, used a technology he developed for making lightweight splints for the Navy...