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Until a decade or so ago, what was considered good modern design in America was not American at all. It was the International Style, promulgated mostly by Weimar Germany's Bauhaus: sleek, austere functionalism that lent an impersonal, industrialized finish to everything from skyscrapers to fountain pens. Increasingly, however...
"At first, in the euphoria of clearing minefields and barbed-wire fences," says Jerusalem's city engineer and chief planner, Amnon Niv, "we shared the conventional modern planning wisdom that progress comes rushing down on a network of superhighways and that affluence shoots up only in skyscrapers." Jerusalem'...
"So these collections have become increasingly more important as animals become extinct or as environments change. We have things from Miami where now you see skyscrapers. As man alters the enviroment, the collections become more and more important."
Says Barnes: "We wanted the visitor to remember painting in space, sculpture against sky and a sense of continuous flow, a sense of going somewhere." Barnes, 68, studied with Bauhaus Leaders Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer at Harvard, and has kept faith with their nononsense, functionalist International Style. His new...
The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, gathered by Musicologist Robert Kimball, is a model of typography, design and scholarship. The oversize book can lie indolently on a piano, ready to recall the hits of four decades. Because shows are arranged in chronological order, the reader can watch Porter's...