Word: aubert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, three young designers-Jean Aubert, Jean-Paul Jungmann and Antonio Stinco-have simplified their furniture to the point where two basic units is all it takes to make a roomful of see-through inflatables. One unit is a vinyl "log" nearly 6 ft. long, the other a square pillow 3 in. thick. Hung vertically, six or eight logs form a room divider. Piled up, three or four pillows make a backless seat. Snapped together with built-in tabs, logs and pillows can be combined to form a wide variety of armchairs and sofas...
...Maiden Fair. The story takes place Far Away (south of France, north of Italy) and Long Ago (end of the 16th century). The heroine, a young Frenchwoman Of Gentle Birth named Emily St. Aubert, is a Damsel In Distress-Alone In the Cold Cruel World with only her Lofty Principles to guide her. She is beautiful and dutiful, weeps for 30 pages at a stretch, faints wherever the carpeting permits, seeks refuge from the "vices of the world" in the "beauties of nature and the nicer emotions of the mind." She sketches, plays the lute, offers helpful hints to harried...