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Posted by eds on June 12, 2007, 9:31 pm
> On 12 Jun 2007, Don wrote
>
>> If I put a small track light over my desk wif maybe 2 small
>> halogen fixtures would it send out a subliminal message?
>
> You mean, other than "I'm a poser, and probably gay", or "I'm getting
> old, now, and going blind"?
>
> Nah, nothing more than that. :))
>
> (There's a famous picture of Gropius's workspace at the Bauhaus in
> his later years. The studio, of course, had been designed to within
> an inch of its life, with no question of adding or subtracting from
> the completely through-designed whole which fully catered for all
> functional needs. Old man Gropius had stuck a goose-neck lamp on his
> desk....)
>
> --
> Cheers, Harvey
> Architectural and topographical historian
>
I suspect that the photo was taken in Cambridge, MA, if Grope was an old
man. He left the Bauhaus in 1937 or 1938. I was at TAC under Grope from 1959
to 1961 and later in 1968. He died in 1969. BTW that light was always used
and he would not allow his office to be air conditioned.
EDS
>
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