Checkmate fabric
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The Checkmate fabric designed by Jhane Barnes Inc for KnollTextiles of New York, NY, won the Best of Category award in the furniture category of the 1992 I.D. Annual Design Review. Checkmate is a double woven jacquard made of rayon, wool and polyester. It was praised for its checkerboard pattern of bold colors, suggesting three-dimensionality and richness. The designer used computer graphics and textile programs to balance geometry and color. This is the first time the Best of Category award in furniture is given to a fabric, which was characterized as functional, beautiful and makes use of the latest technology.
Publication Name: I.D.
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0894-5373
Year: 1992
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The fecund androgyne: Gender and the utopian/dystopian imagination of the 1970s
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American feminist authors have frequently found utopian fiction a highly useful literary mode in which to develop their various social visions throughout the 20th century. In the 1970s, feminist utopian fiction focused strongly upon the role played by gender in the process of creating a better, even an ideal society and an examination of the treatment of gender in any of the 1970s utopias and dystopias yields important insights into not only the issue of gender but the nature and evolution of utopian/dystopian genre itself.
Publication Name: Socialism and Democracy
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0885-4300
Year: 2006
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Sister singers
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Julie Hefley and Susie Campbell, sisters aged 70 and 72, recorded their family repertoire of Ozark folk songs. Twenty-four songs were collected, seven from Hefley and 17 from Campbell, including four previously unknown or rare songs. The sisters divided the repertoire between them in a way that reflects their personalities and separate experiences, illustrating the multi-conduit model of folklore transmission. Music and words for several songs are included.
Publication Name: Western Folklore
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0043-373X
Year: 1990
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