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...Sphere, No. 10; The Sun. For the Met, which specially commissioned The Sun, Lippold outdid himself, labored three years putting together, with 14,000 hand-welded joints, almost two miles of 22-carat gold-filled wire. Hung by stainless steel wires in one of the Met's Oriental-rug rooms, The Sun measures 22 ft. long, 11 ft. high and 5½ ft. deep...
...artists' prompter in this case was Manhattan Gallery Owner Madeleine Chalette-Lejwa, who commissioned their sketches, had them woven by Provençal weavers. Her one predictable surprise: Picasso had thought up the idea before her, had already designed a rug (known as Alençon, for its type of weaving, but which he entitled The Keyhole) to decorate the floor of his villa at Cannes. Well pleased with the first results, Madeleine Chalette-Lejwa is sure the idea will catch on. Says she: "In the old days art had a much more functional character than it has today...
...word is spoken once the robbery is under way. Moving into an apartment above the store, they bind and gag the concierge and his wife, roll back the living-room rug and begin cutting through the concrete floor. When the hole is the width of a man's wrist, an umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute...
...made-over, nine-room Victorian brick farmhouse of 1860 vintage, smoothed off, brightened and painted white inside, and furnished with Eero's furniture. (His mother lives on the back lot in a sleek modern house he designed to fit her favorite, handloomed, 25-ft.-long Finnish rug.) In cutting away a section of one wall to throw light on the main stairway of his old house, Saarinen has made the exterior what he considers "better Victorian than ever." The garage has been converted into a joint study, where Eero, working over his drafting table at night, glances up frequently...
When Captain Edward A. Tappe boarded his Capital Airlines DC-4 at Washington's National Airport one afternoon last week for a no-passenger flight to Baltimore, he saw a pink puddle on the rug between the forward luggage compartments. Thinking it might be hydraulic fluid, he put his finger in it, put the finger to his nose, and sniffed. It was not hydraulic fluid so he wiped his finger on his uniform and forgot about...