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'Like finding lost Rembrandts'
Peter Mullin cracks open the door of a 1935 Voisin Type C25 Aerodyne at the back of the auto museum bearing his name. He points out the intricate details of a vibrant Art Deco interior, restored to its original luster. A small ashtray hangs on the inside...
Tags: Air and Space Accidents, World War II (1939-1945), Architecture, Science and Technology, Rudolph Valentino
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Hansen: Curvaceous peace in architecture
There are a few ramshackle stretches of Coast Highway in Laguna Beach cluttered with tired buildings and bad imagination. You become immune, driving by in a daze because there's nothing much to look at. But then you notice the curve. It's an organic,...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Architecture
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Balthazar Korab dies at 86; architect-photographer with wide-ranging eye
Balthazar Korab, an architect-turned-photographer with a wide-ranging eye whose moody, polished images captured the spirit of midcentury modern architecture and celebrated its masters, including Eero Saarinen and Mies van der Rohe, died Jan. 15 in Royal...Tags: Kennedy Airport, Budapest (Hungary), Parkinson's Disease, Hungary, Arts and Culture
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Oscar Niemeyer dies at 104; modernist Brazilian architect
Oscar Niemeyer, the architect whose soaring buildings form the heart of Brasilia, the instant modernist capital built in the wilds of Brazil in the late 1950s, has died. He was 104. Niemeyer, who had outlived his contemporaries to become the world's...Tags: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Brazil, Robert Hughes, Algiers (Algeria), Architecture
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Gae Aulenti dies at 84; architect designed Paris' Musee d'Orsay
Gae Aulenti, an Italian architect who attained international prominence turning old buildings into modern museums, including Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, died Wednesday at her home in Milan. She was 84. Her family told...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Architecture, France, Museum of Modern Art, Human Interest
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New Haven's Beinecke Library is Swept Up in a Wave of Modernism
When did we become "modern"? Two tantalizing exhibitions at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library raise this important though probably unanswerable question. They are Architecture in Dialogue: The Peter Eisenman Collection at Yale and...
Tags: Libraries, Europe, Newspaper and Magazine, World War II (1939-1945), World War I (1914-1918)
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Greta Magnusson Grossman retrospective to open in Pasadena
At a Van Nuys auction house earlier this month, bidding on a seemingly simple 1940s aluminum and brass floor lamp by Greta Grossman rose to $10,000, then with the crowd buzzing, climbed past $15,000. Then $20,000. And $25,000. By the time the gavel fell...Tags: Arts and Culture, Media Industry, Museums, Arts, Architecture
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A hilltop Encino house where circular logic works
People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. And if that glass house has two 12-sided, almost circular, mostly door-less structures with precious few straight interior walls? Then hanging art, relying on conventional right-angled furniture...
Tags: Example (music group), Auction Service
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Find one-of-a-kind cultural items Chicago's museum stores
More years ago than I'd like to say, I moved into a charmless cinder block dormitory on the campus of a land-grant university about eight hours away from my suburban Chicago home. To assuage homesickness and spruce the place up a bit, I hung a print of...
Tags: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Book, Music, Architecture, Culture
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House Proud
LA Times MagazineStyle, spirit and taste—and premier designer Jane Hallworth—define the late Laura Ziskin’s Santa Monica home... -
Capri, Italy travel information
THE BEST WAY From LAX, connecting service (change of planes) to Naples is offered on Lufthansa and British. Restricted round-trip fares begin at $466, excluding taxes and fees. You then take the hydrofoil or ferry to Capri; prices start about $15, one...Tags: Personal Service, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Travel, Foods and Beverages, Los Angeles International Airport
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A New Book from Michel Houellebcq: Very Little Sex Tourism Here
The French novelist Michel Houellebecq is possibly best known for pissing off Muslims and for endorsing sex tourism. Add to that a reputation for crazy boozing, and the guy doesn’t win loads of sympathy. (A mini flap over the author’s...Tags: William Morris, Religion and Belief, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Arts and Culture, Architecture
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