Word: stainlessness
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...sees three trowels set next to the plants, and he wants them. "Would you mind stopping in there for a moment?" he asks. "I've been searching for stainless trowels...
...trowels, as it turns out, are not for sale. Nor are they stainless. We continue down Dunster Street...
...seat gym, a vaulting span of 262 ft. 6 in. seems to levitate the roof just off the walls, creating an intense ribbon of natural light instead of some ordinary bolts-and-concrete seam. Outside, the pair of connected buildings, both clad in perfect, curved, wafer-thin sheets of stainless steel, look like 21st century allusions to 16th century Japanese armor, at once futuristic and resonant with the past. "One of architecture's functions," Maki has said, "is to awaken subconscious memories of shapes." He does so, at Fujisawa and elsewhere, by means of a sort of New Age Gothic...
...late footnote to Pop art that relies on one obsessive device: the exaggeration of the aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny, possessing some...
...they will be encouraged to create show-bizzy, show-stopping showplaces that millions of people each year will see and enjoy. At Euro Disney, the Pritzker-prizewinning Frank Gehry designed the nightclub center called Festival Disney, whose plaza is guarded by giant towers of oxidized silver and bronze-colored stainless steel under a star-studded canopy of lights. It's as if the monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey had dressed up and gone out to strut...