Word: tubularity
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...brainchild of a 47-year-old architect named Marcel Breuer, who made himself known 24 years ago by inventing tubular steel chairs (in Germany's longtime Mecca of modern architects, the Bauhaus school of design). Architect Breuer came to the U.S. in 1937, taught for nine years at Harvard under his old Bauhaus boss, Walter Gropius, before setting up in business in Manhattan...
...definitive study, Recurring Cycles of Fashion, Agnes Brooks Young discovered only three major styles in women's dresses in the last 200 years: back fullness (the bustle), tubular skirts (the basic fashion from 1900 through 1937), and the bell skirt of pre-Civil War days. Each cycle seemed to last about 38 years...
Famed St. Patrick's Cathedral, on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, was getting its face lifted. Last week, at just about the halfway mark in an ambitious repair job, tubular-steel cobwebs festooned the neo-Gothic church. St. Patrick's had cost only $1,500,000 by the time it was dedicated in 1879; the patching had already taken $1,000,000, would take another year and another million dollars...
Priced at about $2.50 per square inch of canvas (from $350 to $6,000), Léger's solidly meshed combinations of keys, wheels, metallic leaves and tubular women sell well to people who like to take their machine-age art neat. Mostly he confines himself to blacks, greys, and eye-stopping poster reds and yellows. Says he: "Nowadays a work of art must bear comparison with any manufactured object. The artistic picture is false and out of date...
...Bamboo also does pretty well in a storm. Its tubular construction-reinforced with longitudinal fibers-gives maximum strength for minimum weight. The horizontal joints keep it from swaying too much. Columns made the same way, of either metal or concrete, would be strong, light and hollow...