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...toniest bachelor on Telegraph Hill?-came the answer last week, when Land Developer John Fell Stevenson, 25, youngest son of the U.S.'s U.N. ambassador, reached the moment of troth with Occasional Interior Decorator Natalie Owings, 22, the less bohemian of the sloe-eyed twin daughters of Architect...
Amidst the brocade and crystal furnishings of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel, Pioneer Modern Architect Walter Gropius, 78, stood up to receive the second Kaufmann International Design Award, a tax-free $20,000, for his "achievement in design education" while founder and director of Germany's austerely functional Bauhaus. Gropius cast a wry glance at most modern buildings, said, "It seems completely futile to inject quality into buildings and goods which are created only for their short entertainment value." What was needed in the U.S., said Gropius, was a movement like Britain's "Anti-Uglies," irate architecture...
...autobiography ever came to light, it would rival Cellini's great book in raciness. But only the bare facts of his life are known. The son of a stonemason, he was born in a small village not far from Venice. His uncle was a successful engineer and architect, and Piranesi started out to be an architect too. He read Palladio, studied the majestic stage designs that were the triumph of the Venetian theater. Even so, Venice seemed a stifling place, Piranesi went to Rome, the city of august memories and ancient glory...
...times been more prosperous, the 18th century might have gained a fair architect, but it would have lost a unique engraver. Neither the church nor the nobility were in the mood to spend on new buildings, and so Piranesi turned to drawing and engraving what he could not build. No laws of structure could restrain him now; he could let his fancy race across each plate and create an opera-set world that could never have been built in stone. He did his famous prisons while on a visit to Venice-great caverns filled with festoons of clanking chains, soaring...
Married. Rosalyn Tureck. 47, intense, Chicago-born pianist who since the death of Wanda Landowska has reigned in Europe and the U.S. as the high priestess of Bach; and James Elliott Armstrong Hainds, 45, Chicago architect; both for the second time; in Manhattan...