Word: handcrafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better than break even on their sales to individuals. On a $400 dress, Dior reckons on a profit of only $30 (manufacturers who plan to reproduce it must pay much more for the same dress, sometimes a royalty on each copy sold). Since Paris dressmaking is almost entirely a handcraft industry (at Dior, one sewing machine serves 30 seamstresses), the couturier cannot cut costs by increasing production...
...being the opposite: "It needed the dark, dull afternoons of a Paris winter for its inception, and needed them also ... for its appreciation." Today, Calder is sufficiently appreciated to make a good living from his art. His sculptures may have a machine-age look, but they are done by handcraft methods, the products of a Connecticut Yankee ingenuity and an untrammeled mind...
...Chinese pottery. But none was slavishly Chinese and some were "modern." A first-class craftsman and connoisseur of oriental pottery, Leach is also an occidental, an artist, and his own man. The combination made for strength as well as refinement. His work argued even more forcefully for handcraft than his words...