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...lipstick molds, mixed batter identical to the popular Ausma brand manufactured in Riga. Soon he persuaded Ausma officials-for a price-that competition was wasteful, and began importing the authentic recipes and lipstick tubes direct from the maker. When Kotlyar was nabbed, he had invested his lipstick loot in precious gems, gold and state bonds worth more than 1,500,000 rubles ($1,665,000). The cache of jewels found in his home, said he, was part of his wife's trousseau...
Another reason for the diminishing band is the steadily increasing study load at the College. Nearly all undergraduate organizations, have felt the academic squeeze, which has become a permanent fact of Harvard life. With academic responsibilities growing, more and more students have decided that they can't devote precious time to activities, and particularly to ones which make such a point in having...
When Gonzalez died in 1942, the world's scrap iron was as precious as its guns. It was not until war's end that sculptors in metal were free to trace his pioneer steps. Now rods, clinkers, nuts and bolts have been fused and forged into the new nature of sculpture, and in its open and bristling aerial forms, there is everywhere homage to Gonzalez...
...mixed painting, sculpture and jewelry making, largely because they depended on patrons for a living and their patrons wanted all three. Today's painters and sculptors, free of that pressure, largely shun jewelry making, uncertain whether it is an art, a trade, or merely a manner of preserving precious stones. To combat the notion that jewelry makers are not artists but artisans, London's 800-year-old Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths this month is showing the largest recent collection of fine jewelry. For every piece from Boucheron and Cartier, Harry Winston and Tiffany, there is a Calder...
Sculptures Made Small. Many of the most successful pieces in the show are miniatures of ideas conceived on the grand scale. Lynn Chadwick's rings are small, precious-metal versions of bronze sculpture already in existence. Henri Laurens sculpted bird shapes in plaster, then cast them in gold and presented them to his family as pendants and brooches. Many of the cast-metal pieces were cast by French Goldsmith François Hugo from wax or plaster molds made by French artists...