Word: deconess
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...master of art deco celebrates with four shows
...fortunate artists who have lived long enough to luxuriate in their own revival. The acknowledged master of art deco in the 1920s and '30s, he created exuberantly fanciful costumes in his Paris studio for Anna Pavlova, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and Josephine Baker. The sets he designed for the Folies-Bergère and the Ziegfeld Follies were backdrops for the extravagances of the age. In the postwar era, however, Erté's conceits were often dismissed as high camp or low kitsch. Undeterred, he kept on painting the Erté woman, who is the focus of most...
...cars are the stars. Built mostly in the late 1920s, they are jewels of art deco crystal and cabinetwork. Some were discovered, rotted and unrecognizable, on remote railroad sidings. One had been used as a brothel in Limoges during World War II; another had been tenderly maintained by a schoolmaster at Eton. Each car had to be equipped with modern wiring, insulation, safety glass, fireproofing and brakes. Much of the marquetry and upholstery had to be remade, some of it to the original specifications, discovered, miraculously, at a cabinetmaker's in Chelmsford, England. Some 250 Orient Express artifacts, from...
...notably a 27-story corporate headquarters in downtown Louisville, Ky., for Humana Inc., and an addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, designed by Bauhaus Architect Marcel Breuer. Yet it remains to be seen whether Graves' heavy-handed Pop surrealism-"a dash of deco and a whiff of Ledoux," as leading Postmodernist Architect Robert Venturi calls it-will influence workaday architecture. New inspirations are needed, but they should be inspirations that are real, joyful and charming...
...Even though it ranks as the nation's largest general-interest paper, the News (circ. 1.5 million) lost at least $ 12.6 million last year and expects to lose anywhere from $25 million to $50 million this year. Indeed, several potential purchasers* seemed more interested in its 1930 Art Deco office tower in midtown Manhattan than in the paper...