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Pontifell's philosophy was shaped early. From his mother, a sculptor, he learned a reverence for craftsmanship, and from his father, an advertising creative director, he derived a love for the written word. Growing up in a 200-year-old farmhouse in West Stockbridge, Mass., he made toys and wrote poems in calligraphy...
...conceived to be a champion of Anglo-Saxon (Protestant) values. The Spaniards had taken guns and the catechism abroad. America, said Mark Twain, took guns and the King James Bible to the Philippines, and President McKinley said he would make the island inhabitants good Christians. For the Chicago fair, sculptor Daniel Chester French, creator of American icons like the seated Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, fashioned a 14-ft. statue of Columbus driving an imperial chariot...
Then there is the international preoccupation with a benign Utopia -- Europe's reaction against the horror of war -- whose "spiritual" symbol was glass architecture. Besides the familiar Constructivist icons, such as the sculptor Vladimir Tatlin's wooden model for a giant tower that was to commemorate the Third Communist International, there are fantasies by much- lesser-known artists -- the outstanding one being a German, Wenzel Hablik, whose radiant glass towers and many-colored domes resemble designs for the New Jerusalem...
Stackable office chairs are easy to store but too often tough on the tush. Now comes the Perry chair, whose makers claim comfort need no longer be sacrificed for convenience. Created by sculptor, architect and designer Charles Perry, the chair has a single-piece steel frame that flexes backward and forward, while its polypropylene seat hangs from the lower backrest so the sitter's weight counterbalances the tilting pressure on the upper backrest. Result: a user-friendly seat that can be stacked 25 high...
Whose Life is it Anyway? relates the story of Ken Harrison (Tom Chick), a sculptor who has become paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. Harrison's realization that he will never recover leads him to prefer dying to continuing to live as a creative mind trapped in an immobile body. In addition, Harrison feels dehumanized in the antiseptic atmosphere of the hospital, where compassion is considered unprofessional. His request to die is viewed by his doctors as another symptom of shock--something to be treated with valium. Only through a court order does Harrison finally receive...