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Coming up: What is the real International Style?

12:05 AM Wed, Sep 02, 2009 |
By David Brussat    Email this author |   Email this entry

around.jpgThe 1956 film Around the World in 80 Days took moviegoers on a voyage to the world's major cultures as its protagonists, David Niven, Shirley McLaine and Cantinflas (the famous Mexican acrobat who plays valet to Brit snit Phileas Fogg) emerge from one scrape after another with stereotypical peoples of the non-Anglo world. What a romp! Meanwhile, in the background, the habitation of the world's cultures flows by. What has this to do with the International Style? The answer is in a huge book: World Architecture: The Masterworks, by Will Pryce. What's the connection? Well, the modernists will stop at nothing to keep you out of the secret. Discover it for yourself in Thursday's column.

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