Word: rococo
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Modernist furniture is another matter entirely: the stripped-down, functional aesthetic is alive and well. Particularly when it comes to chairs, the charms of rococo revivalism and campy cha-cha shapes tend to pall quickly. Enzo Mari's lithe Tonietta chair is subtle as can be. What could have been another exercise in thoughtless angularity is redeemed by the slight, supple art nouveau curvature of the aluminum legs and the natural give of the leather seat and back...
...RIGHT THIS MINUTE Rococo Revival: 18th century opulence takes hold of the design world...
...fate teamed Roxy with Deskey--Donald Deskey, the great evangel of Art Deco who had won a competition to design the Music Hall. Dedicated to all things Moderne, Deskey is the man who saved us from Rothafel's stated dream for the Music Hall: "Portuguese Rococo...
...half-hour later Dan and Alisha and their new DVDs are compressed into a Volkswagen Santana taxi, bound for the condo that the Sharks have leased for them in a complex of rococo pink high-rises that look like the Leaning Tower of Pisa dipped in grenadine syrup. "You!" Dan commands, using Mandarin for "turn right." Then, after passing through the gates, he says, "Ting!" which means "halt." The driver lets them out in front of a fountain topped by a plaster nymph with breasts the size of cantaloupes...
...gave them breakfast after she had left. The Sun dubbed him the "Blabbermouth Butler." But since he had always intended to keep this information secret, a court issued an injunction to block the Sun from blabbing any more on his behalf. The front-page splashes became ever more rococo. Several insinuated, based on little or no evidence, that Burrell, who is married with children, had an intimate relationship with Michael Barrymore, a gay TV personality recently disgraced after a man was found dead in his pool. The most combustible story concerned a tape supposedly made by Diana in secret...