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The patroness and the architect

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In the 1950s, the heiress to the Seagram fortune, Phyllis Lambert, commissioned German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to design the now famous Seagram Building in New York City. Lambert believes that the building was really designed by both van der Rohe, and American architect Philip Johnson.

Author: Hays, Michael
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vogue
Subject: Fashion and beauty
ISSN: 0042-8000
Year: 2001
Interview, Design and construction, Johnson, Philip (American architect), Seagram Building, New York, New York

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Laps of luxury

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A 2001 retrospective of German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's career is being shown in two parts, as "Mies in Berlin" at New York's Museum of Modern Art, and as "Mies in America" at the Whitney Museum. Van der Rohe's work is famous for its modernistic simplicity, purism, and luxury.

Author: Moore, Rowan
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vogue
Subject: Fashion and beauty
ISSN: 0042-8000
Year: 2001
New York, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

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Behind the biennial

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The Whitney Museum of American Art's Whitney Biennial aims to display significant art work of the past two years. It has boosted the careers of several artists such as Nancy Rubins, Julio Galan and Jason Rhoades.

Author: Kertess, Klaus
Publisher: Conde Nast Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Vogue
Subject: Fashion and beauty
ISSN: 0042-8000
Year: 1995
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Subjects list: Works, Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, Exhibitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
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