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...Swid Powell was formed to commission the architects to design china, crystal and silverware for the $4 billion-a-year "tabletop" market. The resulting collection of some 50 pieces was unveiled earlier this fall at Marshall Field's in Chicago; two of the architects, Richard Meier and Stanley Tigerman, attended to show off their handiwork. (The others displaying works: Charles Gwathmey, Robert Siegel, Laurinda Spear, Robert A.M. Stern, Robert Venturi, Japan's Arata Isozaki.) The designs are already a commercial as well as aesthetic success. At Field's the china is moving briskly, and some...
...piece place settings for eclectic offerings. There is, for instance, Venturi's complex "Grandmother," a pastel floral print overlaid with bold black dashes. "Miami Beach," by Spear, a partner in Florida's brash Arquitectonica firm, mixes soft-colored blobs and a bright red bar. Chicago's Tigerman, known for his theatrical home designs, created "Sunshine," in which bold colors interplay with a cartoon-cute pink angel. The elegant and evocative "Majestic," by Stern, a professor of architecture at Columbia University, combines art deco gilt ornament with a ruby-red rim. Meier's "Professor" barware employs etched...
...Robert Venturi, 53, and his firm in Philadelphia; the no less complex, but somewhat less ironic and more playful historicism of Charles Moore, 53, and Robert Stern, 39; the slangy, "high-tech" flexibility of Hugh Hardy, 46, and his firm, Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer; the outright jokiness of Stanley Tigerman...
Carried further, mannerism turns into jokes. One exponent of the building as sight gag is Chicago Architect Stanley Tigerman. His best-known visual joke is the Daisy House in Porter Beach, Ind. The house is in the shape of a phallus; a flight of white concrete steps, cascading down to the lake shore, represents the semen. Tigerman can also be serious, as in his award-winning Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped at the University of Illinois' Chicago Circle campus. Since most blind people are at least partly sighted, and can register color, the library is candied with bright...
Proposals for Chicago's badly needed third jetport include a floating airport constructed of aluminum modules and reached by helibus and Hovercraft. Architect Stanley Tigerman estimates it would cost a relatively modest $500 million. Closer to approval, however, is a $1 billion dike-protected jetport 35 ft. to 55 ft. below the water level of Lake Michigan and connected to the Loop by six miles of causeway, tunnel and bridge. Says Chicago's Aviation Commissioner William Downes Jr.: "The main objection comes from the save-our-lakefront fraternity who don't realize that an airport six miles...