Word: rococo
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...critique is nothing new; loftier versions of these accusations have been leveled at Handel and Bach for their own contrapuntal (mis)adventures. These compositions may be seen as pedantic, heavy-handed, passionless or academic. But without the occasional excess of ornamentation, Baroque would never have lived up to its rococo potential, math rock would just be rock, and legions of bored teenagers would never have laid down their controllers for guitars.--Staff writer Will B. Payne can be reached at payne@fas.harvard.edu...
...LASER CUT Furniture or sculpture? The answer was both for the vanguard brother-sister team of Thien and My Ta Trung at Canadian design studio Periphere when they created the all-steel, rococo-esque Iceberg table, with a laser-cut snowflake pattern in bright mirror chrome. In similar fashion is the Conran Shop's Prince chair, with a wool-covered rubber seat and back?originally designed by Louise Campbell for an invitation-only competition to give form to a chair for Denmark's Crown Prince. Swede Monica Forster was inspired by snow crystals and sunbeams when building her zinc-plated...
...DEMEL Dating from 1786, Demel is one of Vienna's oldest pastry shops and offers sumptuous rococo-style surroundings. Tuck into the caf?'s popular Anna torte, a deep-layered concoction of orange liqueur-flavored chocolate cream and sponge, covered with chocolate nougat scrolls. You can watch pastry chefs at work through a glass wall. tel: (43-1) 5351 7170; www.demel.at...
...popularity among the Habsburg aristocracy at the end of the 18th century. So forget about your waistline and check out four of the best Café Konditoreien the Austrian capital has to offer: Demel Dating from 1786, Demel is one of Vienna's oldest pastry shops and offers sumptuous rococo-style surroundings. Tuck into the café's popular Anna torte, a deep-layered concoction of orange liqueur?flavored chocolate cream and sponge, covered with chocolate nougat scrolls. You can watch Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style...
...making the biggest mark is a moonfaced, bespectacled six-footer named Milton Glaser, 38, head of Manhattan's influential Push Pin Studios, which drafts advertisements and designs such things as book jackets and record covers. Glaser initially developed a pseudo-rococo style, inspired by the 18th century etchings that he had studied on a Fulbright scholarship in Italy. When that was widely imitated, he shifted to what might be called silhouetch, with shadows reverberating outward and often colored with brilliantly acidic hues. Of late, with silhouetch being copied in scores of advertisements, Glaser has been bearing down...