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...ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS...
...Stone now acknowledges. He plans to re-study the top of the building, particularly he screen above the roof. No such reservations cloud Stone's opinion of the house resigned on ancient classical lines around central court, or atrium, which he completed this month (with Interior Designer ?. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings) for Bruno and "Josephine Graf in Dallas, Texas...
...Terence Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings has written witheringly about antiques (Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale) and modern art (Mono, Lisa's Mustache). In his new book, Homes of the Brave (Knopf; $3.50), he launches an attack on modern home design that may send readers reeling back to the old mohair sofa...
...year-old Widdicomb Furniture Co. had been the first big Grand Rapids producer to go completely contemporary. In 1942 it hired star Manhattan Designer Terence Harold Robsjohn-Gibbings to match the best Queen Anne and Louis Quatorze with sleek modern. By this year most other companies had gotten into the act, were turning out their own handsome lines in native American woods. An outspoken critic (Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale) of both fake antique and engine-room modern, Robsjohn-Gibbings sounded off for Grand Rapids modern last week. Said he: "People aren't fools. In general, the public taste is right...
...three designers turn out furniture that looks very different, but they are furiously united on one point: their detestation of the reproductions and pseudo-antiques now being turned out by the big furniture manufacturers and bought by the public. Says Robsjohn-Gibbings...