Word: rosewood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago, it is the animal furniture-sculpture of French Designer Francois-Xavier Lalanne. Delighting the throngs at the Art Institute are his furnishings, including a flock of 22 woolly-coated, roller-footed sheep that serve as seats, sofas or hassocks; a monumental housefly three feet long that sports a rosewood toilet seat; and a life-size brass rhinoceros weighing 735 Ibs. whose side swings down to make a desk...
...Fresh Egg. The only daughter of a wealthy rice broker in North Viet Nam and the wife of a civil servant, Mme. Xa grew up "studying like a man" in a house filled with rosewood and mother-of-pearl paneling and glass windows "as blue as the sky." Strictly chaperoned, she learned social work, painted landscapes, wrote poems to the Virgin Mary-and, at age 14, snatched away the billy club of a policeman beating a street peddler. Her family supported the Viet Minh war for independence, then was turned out of house and home by the victorious Communists...
...antique dealers scurrying to their basements in search of other long-discarded bric-a-brac. In Britain, where the revival has fired popular fancy, William Morris prints are the current fashion fabric hit. Munich's taste-setting decorator store, Die Einrichtung, recently supplemented its modern pieces with settees, rosewood chests, chairs, shelves and ceramics whose curvaceous shape and exotic flavor display kinship with the tenets of Henry van de Velde, Belgian painter, architect, designer, and leading prophet of art nouveau 70 years...
HUGH TOWNLEY-Pace, 9 West 57th. A Brown University art professor nails together all kinds of wood (walnut, oak, mahogany, cherry, maple, rosewood) and, with whalebone and horn, exploits the different shapes, grains and tones to endow his abstract anomalies with a curious vitality. Says he: "I want a thing that provokes and tantalizes and satisfies ... a bitchy piece of sculpture that lives." On view: 15 such pieces in relief and in the round. Through...
...rosewood case attracted Mrs. Holmes, but I dissuaded her. "I believe blond mahogany would be preferable," I told her. "It would not be too effeminate for Eric nor too masculine for Alice." And so it was agreed...