October 2009
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Oct 31st
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“When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty… But when I have...”
– American architect, author, designer, inventor, and futurist Buckminster Fuller
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Oct 23rd
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Object Report: Ancient Furniture
Throughout the semester of my Historical Styles 101 course, we have three object reports due. They are to be about 1) Ancient & Classical, 2) Medieval and 3) French furniture. The assignment is to describe (in 250 words or less) a piece of furniture so that someone who is not looking at it can visualize the appearance. We are only to describe what we can see - no opinions, critiques or...
Oct 23rd
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Pimp cups of Ancient Times
Between visiting both the Greek & the Roman wings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you come to discover there are too many libation vessels to count. I, for one, think there can never be enough libation vessels made with horns (speaking as an Aries here). The name of this particular style of vase shape is Rhyton. Rhyton? More like RIGHT ON. Gilt-silver stag head libation vessel Greece Late...
Oct 23rd
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Oct 2nd
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“She was probably the first woman to dye her hair blue, to perform handstands to...”
– American Decades profile on Elsie De Wolfe
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