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Call it commodity chic. Marketers of watches and desk chairs, lawn sets and household tools are courting the world's top artists in a bid to make design a critical selling point. Like Graves, architect Philippe Starck is busy putting his mark of conceptual brilliance on a lineup of bathroom fixtures, from sinks to urinals, for the German company Duravit. And designer Marc Newson, 35, has done kitchen accessories for Italy's upscale Alessi, a bicycle for Denmark's Biomega, and the bar at Andre Balazs' new Standard Hotel in Los Angeles--in addition to a car for Ford...
...quarterly in which edgy visual artists of every stripe explore one subject, has turned to the Bible. Catherine Chalmers has a sexy take on the serpent, above, and Enrique Badulescu recasts David and Goliath as fashion models. A curved wooden Frank Gehry creation becomes Noah's Ark. Even Philippe Starck's spiky plastic packaging is fun. Not as visionary as the original, but fascinating...
...Barbie program truly in their best interests or merely another frightening example of the power of consumerism? I hope that when my children are teenagers, unlike Barad's two sons, they have better things to do with their time than be online eight hours a day. CAROLINE STARCK Germantown, Tennessee...
...Dowidchuk 2-6 0-1 4; Julie Breckenridge 4-9 2-4 10; Sandi Bittler 4-11 4-6 14; Leah Spraragen 4-14 2-2 13; Hilary Malcarney 3-4 2-2 8; Jeany Carlson 0-1 3-4 3; Kaaren Andrews 0-0 0-0 0; Tracy Starck...
...best bold stroke was to hollow out the Royalton's long, block-through, columned lobby and bring it alive. People sit here and talk nonsense to one another, order tea -- a liquor license is still to come -- wait for somebody to tilt a chair back, argue about what Starck did right and wrong. (Right: a bar, made of dark marble, with a lovely, sinuous stainless-steel footrest, and a thin strip of glowing blue glass set into the top. Wrong: tacky purple ropes with tassels, holding up enormous mirrors...