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Arthur A. Houghton Jr., D.F.A., president of Steuben Glass and chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Edmund Sixtus Muskie, LL.D., Senator from Maine. Public servant, tactful handler of partisan and generational differences, and forceful spokesman for environmental quality...
...Knowlton is the first to admit that there has always been something unique in the attitudes of Americans in arms. It was noticed, he says, by the Prussian Baron Friedrich von Steuben, a military adviser to Washington's army: "When he was at Valley Forge, Von Steuben observed that you cannot just tell an American soldier what to do, you always have to tell...
Curves and Angles. Materials and objects proved only variously susceptible to the sensibility of the age. Cut glass, perfume flasks or a bubbly blue glass Steuben amphora look as pristine and crisp today as they did when Gertrude Lawrence was taking her first bows. Ceramie platters with insipid doe-eyed female heads and statuettes of languid girls on the other hand, are likely to be valued only by aficionados of kitsch. Certain themes and color schemes predominated: outrageous colors prompted by Léon Bakst's Ballet Russe sets; Egyptian motifs and Aztec patterns...
...most people, Wedgwood is just their cup of tea. The name of the British pottery firm, founded in 1759, connotes what Steuben does to glass or Gobelin to tapestries. Today Wedgwood, under the direction of the founder's great-great-great-grandson, has kept pace with the 20th century, has a complete line of modern ceramic ware. But the firm still continues to make many of the wares that Josiah Wedgwood originally designed. Not a whit of the craftsmanship that makes Wedgwood endure has changed. A current exhibition at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh. Wis., brings...
Last week the Met got a new president who uniquely blends industry and esthetics: Arthur Amory Houghton Jr., 57, president of Steuben Glass...