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...girl's mind. There is the chance to go swimming in the fountain of the Place de la Concorde, to sit at Fouquet's and wash one's feet with soda water (like T. S. Eliot's Mrs. Porter), or to turn that strange little porcelain convenience in the hotel bawthroom into a private swimming pool for one's favorite turtle. The fun has worn a little thin by the time Eloise takes Nahnee, the turtle and her collection of champagne corks back to the Plaza, where Room Service is ever so happy to have...
...Elizabeth and Philip presented the Eisenhowers with a pair of American parula warblers sculptured in porcelain. Can it be that the Eisenhowers are bird watchers and that these warblers are their favorites? Incidentally, we never see the parula around here. Probably because of the absence of usnea moss, with which it pins up its little basketlike nest with its side entrance. I used to see them in such nests in the swamps down South...
...succeeding days, prices for French furniture, porcelain and bric-a-brac kept up the same furious pace. Items: a Louis XV Sevres porcelain soupiere, sold for $3,000 in 1941, was bid in at $29,000; carved and gilded Louis XVI armchairs went for $2,500 each; marble-topped, gilded and painted Louis XV commodes for $14,000. Prize bid of the whole sale was for Renoir's sunny landscape La Serre, expected to bring between $120,000 and $140,000, which went to Manhattan's Rosenberg & Stiebel for an even $200,000. The dealer refused...
...paper taped to the wall, his wolf-and-goat-hair brush poised in his hand like a dart. Suddenly he reached to the top of the paper, in four bold downward strokes brushed in four broad segments of a bamboo stalk. He quickly dipped the brush again in the porcelain bowl of mixed water and ink, drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang Chun-pi turned smiling to face the crowded room...
Milan is in the midst of its most successful Triennale-a once-in-three-years show of industrial arts, dating back to 1907. This year 23 countries are participating, and a total turnout of 300,000 visitors is expected. There is plenty to see: Japanese porcelain. Scandinavian furniture, a geodesic dome designed by the U.S.'s R. Buckminster Fuller. But the show's foremost attraction by far, is a one-man pavilion celebrating the effervescent genius of Milan's own Gio Ponti...