Word: architects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Carrillo had to be put off until midnight. Rival Houston Hotelman Jesse Jones sat it all out quietly. Dorothy Lamour tried to sing in the Emerald Room, but carefree customers swore into the microphone ("Where the hell's my seat?"), and NBC cut Dottie off the air. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sniffing through the hotel, found its long green corridors "depressing," concluded that it was a "tragic . . . imitation [of] Rockefeller Center out here on the prairie . . . There should be written in front of it, in great tall letters, in electric lights...
...practical eye of Jesus Antonio Molina Vega, an architect and contractor, Colombian religious art seemed decadent. He thought he could do better. Three years ago, in his native city of Neiva (pop. 35,000), he started work on a statue of Christ...
What remained of ancient Rome when young Giovanni Battista Piranesi came down from Venice in 1740, was a pretty depressing sight for a would-be architect. The Forum was a clutter of shattered columns commonly known as "Cows' Field." The once-glorious Capitol was "Goats' Hill." The arcades of,the Colosseum were smothered in weeds and shrubs, and every day a few more stones disappeared on the carts of enterprising masons...
Last week Manhattan gallerygoers could see some of the irascible Italian's best work. Centered around the collection of his sketches and drawings belonging to the late Mrs. J. P. Morgan, the exhibit included some of the decorative drawings which influenced English Architect-Decorator Robert Adam. Sharp-eyed observers could see details familiar, in the work of Furniture Designers Chippendale and Sheraton, Potter Josiah Wedgwood. Tangled in some of his lush and complicated grotesques were prototypes of the obelisks, griffins and clawed pedestals which sat so heavily in French drawing rooms of the First Empire. In the towering fagades...