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Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy, the carriers of the Constructivist obsession with space, were the major proponents of Soviet ideas in the Bauhaus. From Russian stage design followed the Bauhausler Oskar Schlemmer, and from Tatlin's chess table and Rodchenko's functional chairs came Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair and Breuer's armchairs. Of course many of these developments ran parallel, and which derived from which is more a question of interaction than origination, such as Mies van der Rohe's model for a Monument to the Third International...
...those who cannot sleep amid too much quiet, New York's Hammacher Schlemmer sells a device called Sleep Sound for $19.50. It whooshes like "a breeze in the trees," according to one salesman. And for those sound-starved insomniacs who want something cheaper, Syntonic Research has produced a simple record with one side devoted entirely to the sound of surf, the other to tropical-bird noises...
...when, as the story goes, she presented Mount Kilimanjaro to Kaiser Wilhelm for his birthday. Yet, the grandly useless gift can be endearing, and while most Americans cannot give mountains, there are other possibilities. Among them is the sauna built for one, developed by New York's Hammacher Schlemmer as an alternative to the standard size ("because it isn't easy to find the right five people to take a sauna together"). The Dauphin of France set a standard for the anti-gift when he presented the young Henry V with tennis balls, in insolent reference...
...girl in the Peace Corps,--"She's got to be beautiful, she's got to be the American dream"--who, on the New York-to-Washington Limited, gets eaten by her three African guests. The title, incidentally, is translated "Meal Time." Kopit has provided such touches as a Hammacher-Schlemmer electric cannibal pot in which Sally is cooked, offstage, although she is eaten onstage. "I think I went too far here," Kopit explained, "not just in showing cooked portions of Sally, but in the play's whole conception. The play's intent is unclear, and could easily be interpreted...
That is only the beginning of the snob-appeal gifts. Tiffany's fastest individual seller is a sterling-silver money clip that costs $3.50. Hammacher Schlemmer offers "Worldtemp" cuff links that register centigrade temperatures on one link and Fahrenheit on the other. Honeywell's $39.95 fishing thermometer comes with 60 ft. of line and a gauge showing which fish bite best at various water temperatures. For $99.50, Abercrombie & Fitch will gift-wrap an instrument that simultaneously tells temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, time of day and day of the week. And for the man who has every thing...