Word: ruhlmann
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...ease and livability of an earlier, less industrial age. While the style of the day was mechanical, some of its most gifted designers, particularly in the 1920s, were craftsmen who produced signed, custom-designed work for a luxury market. Many were French: Silversmith Jean Puiforcat, Furniture Designer Jacques Ruhlmann, Glassmakers Rene Lalique and Maurice Marinot. In the U.S., Henry Dreyfuss and Norman Bel Geddes designed costume jewelry, radio consoles and jukeboxes...
...paunchy, grandiose father to back a Marseille importing firm for him. The brothers' ambitions were reversed when his wife's money gradually converted Onésime into a comfortable bourgeois and Stéphane, after being ruined in business by bulbous-eyed Solomon Lévy-Ruhlmann, turned to painting...
...Painter and The Lady develops, Author Blake (who dedicates it to Ralph Fox, killed fighting for Republican Spain) submerges his characters in the rising tide of the Front Populaire. Stéphane returns to Marseille as an active Communist, and after Lévy-Ruhlmann's murder, is wrongly accused of the crime and convicted. Novel's end comes in June 1936, the month the Front Populaire took office, with Stéphane's execution a dark symbol foreshadowing the political schisms that are to follow...
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