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...tale of the mad Dr. Caligari, whose carnival sideshow features a somnambulist with vivid visions of the future. The story takes on a darker tone when a series of murders is found to coincide with the prophet’s predictions. Featuring a variety of instruments including lap steel guitar, vibraphone, and percussion, The Devil Music Ensemble has toured around the country with their unique live soundtrack experience. Tickets $10 (Ticketweb). 7:30 p.m. Coolidge Corner Theatre...
After the popularity of the more functional stainless-steel look of the '80s and high-tech thrust of the '90s, it's only natural that the pendulum would swing back toward products with the mark of the human hand. A similar return to warmer, more emotional design occurred in the 1950s in response to the cold minimalism that dominated the preceding decades. "It's the old caveman thing. We like reflections of ourselves," says Moss. "We can never get too far away from the recognition in these objects of human involvement." For example, KitchenAid's new Pro Line is designed...
Jennifer Siegal of the Office of Mobile Design designmobile.com) a firm based in Venice, Calif., is preparing to market something she calls the Swellhouse. "It starts with a steel-framed module that's 13 ft. by 13 ft. and 26 ft. high," she says. "You're able to configure these modules like a Lego system to change the number of rooms or the amount of open space the client wants." Her hope right now is that the Swellhouse designs will build for about $200 per sq. ft. But as factory systems for mass-producing house parts improve, she expects costs...
...their usual indifference to public taste. The pioneer modernist Le Corbusier wrote a famous essay in praise of "Mass Production Houses." He just never got around to producing one. Geodesic-dome inventor Buckminster Fuller spent years tinkering with his Dymaxion House. But he insisted on making it circular and steel walled. Americans weren't ready for a house that looked like a flying saucer...
After World War II, when many defense plants were repurposing, some turned to producing prefab wall systems--enameled-steel panels that not only were easy to clean but also allowed you to attach paintings to your walls with magnets. The Jetsons would have loved it. All the same, by the 1950s prefab was in decline. Mobile homes had emerged as the more popular low-cost alternative to stick-built housing. There are still dozens of modular-housing manufacturers in the U.S., but last year they produced just 36,000 of the more than 1.8 million new housing starts nationwide...