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Kokoschka got his first important art training as an architectural designer in Vienna working under famed modern Architect Adolf Loos. In his spare time he painted tortured portraits of his Viennese friends. For his grim portraits and angrily smudged landscapes, collectors paid as high as $8,000. When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Expressionist Kokoschka, caught in Prague, flew to England...
...city planning and building program which makes the Swedish capital a number one town in appearance war inspired by the Stockholm Exposition of 1930. The pavilions were all designed by one architect, Professor E. C. Asplund, and showed the influence of modern theories of design, while they steered well clear of the "modernistic" and exaggerated themes exploited by the recent American expositions...
...present building, replacing the old quarters at 8 Holyoke Street, was the result of a highly successful decade (their only one) following the turn of the century. E. M. Wheelwright '76, one of the founders, was selected as architect, and the convenient site half-way between the Hygiene Building and the Psychological Clinic was chosen. The outside was designed in the style of 16th century Holland, and the inside in the style of the "Blucbcard's Palace" on the Revere Beach midway. It is triangular, consisting of three walls and a standpipe. A brass ibis has been perched...
...first move toward modern functionalism: the ugly old-fashioned "Morris chair" designed in the 1870s for British art-crafter William Morris, in a mistaken attempt to defy the Machine Age. The historical survey moved onward with examples of tubular steel sitting machines by German Bauhausler Marcel Breuer and French Architect Le Corbusier, to the light, cardboardy modern plywood seats and tables by Finland's Alvar Aalto...
Best-looking entries in the show were a group of splashily printed fabrics, done with the silk-screen process by Czechoslovak Architect Antonin Raymond. Most practical furniture was a set of unit bookcases and cupboards by Cranbrook, Mich.'s Eero Saarinen (son of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen) and Charles Eames. Resting on smooth, knee-high benches, the Saarinen and Eames cupboardry could be stacked in as many window-seat and pigeonhole combinations as any modern apartment would hold...