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5| winter 1996-97





Editorial 

Louise Ward

Chintz, swags and bows: 
The myth of English country-house style

Sarah Kane

The silver swan: 
The biography of a curiosity

Hannah Andrassy

Spinning a golden thread: 
The introduction of elastic into swimwear

Philip I. Nobel

Homesickness: 
Disney and the New Urbanism

other things


Jody Rosen

Imagining Manhattan
NYNY: City of Ambition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
3 July - 27 October 1996

Simon Armitage

A hip flask
Poem

Miles Glendinning

Mackintosh, Mockintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh Exhibition
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
25 May - 30 September 1996
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
21 November 1996 - 16 February 1997
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The Art Institute of Chicago
29 March - 22 June 1997
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
3 August - 12 September 1997
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: edited by Wendy Kaplan
Abbeville Press, New York

Esther Leslie

Negative vibes
Verso, London
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August Strindberg - What modern was

Victoria Kelley

Exceedingly good stories
Toby Litt - Adventures in Capitalism
Secker & Warburg, London

Steve Baker

Altered states
Gabriel Orozco
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
26 July - 22 September 1996
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Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin
11 January - 2 March 1997
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Rachel Whiteread: Shedding Life
Tate Gallery, Liverpool
14 September 1996 - 5 January 1997

Rebecca Arnold

Costume drama
National Trust, London

Frank Cartledge

The fashion of violence
Style and the football scally

Russell Flinchum

The He-Type
The E-Type Jaguar
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

William Carlos Williams

A sort of a song
Poem

Hildi Hawkins

Dime and again
Aika. Tiden. Time
Helsinki City Museum, Finland

Margaret Atwood

In love with Raymond Chandler
Short story

Maren Nelson

Is this seat taken?
100 Masterpieces: Furniture that Made the Twentieth Century
Design Museum, London

Woody Allen

To be a chair
Short story

Susan Pearce

La dolce vita
Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his Collection
British Museum, London

Maria Georgaki

A nation of good children
First-grade readers in Greek primary schools

Steve Baker

Curiosity and delight
HarperCollins, New York

Lisa Hirst

The YSL's in the post
The pleasures of mail-order shopping

Hannah Andrassy

Tales of the city
Routledge, London

Stephen Escritt

Where the art is
Not at Home: The Suppression of Domesticity in
Modern Art and Architecture
Edited by Christopher Reed
Thames & Hudson, London

Francesca Vanke

Swinish luxuries?
William Morris
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
9 May - 1 September 1996

Charles Rattray

Looking at objects
Objects of Desire: The Glasgow International Festival of Design 1996
2 - 28 September 1996

Harry Rand

And another thing...

Jyrki Kiiskinen

Marking time
Short story