Ice Palace That Melted Away
Author | : Bill Stumpf |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780676589948 |
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Author | : Bill Stumpf |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999-04-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780676589948 |
Author | : Bill Stumpf |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 0307822885 |
With The Ice Palace That Melted Away, Bill Stumpf, the designer of the first ergonomic chair, addresses the symbiotic relationship between design and the way we live, the often deadening effect of technology, and his hopes for a more humane future. As a designer associated with Herman Miller, Inc., for more than twenty years, Stumpf has been thinking about the profoundly positive or negative effect design can have on our culture. He is both an idealist and a pragmatist, and his wry, anecdotal style gently reveals his shrewd observations about American customs and values. Stumpf is convinced that good design can create the right atmosphere to inspire learning, rehabilitate criminals, and generally lift our spirits. Since technology has succeeded in distancing us from the real experiences of life and such former pleasures as travel, in this facinating book he proposes a playful redesign of the Boeing 747 and a jaunty carriage-like taxicab to put us back in touch with travel as it once was. But it is an event such as the construction of the ephemeral ice palace in St. Paul, Minnesota, during the winter carnival—a source of joy and pride to adults and children alike—that encapsulates the idea of play, which Stumpf feels is essential to all our lives. This provocative book asks whether we might want to do something about our ever-declining levels of "comfort, hidden goodness, play, personal worth, and helping others" to make our future society a truly civilized one. (Black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Author | : Bill Stumpf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780816637300 |
Author | : F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2004-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781419267000 |
She rose at six and sliding uncomfortably into her clothes stumbled up to the diner for a cup of coffee. The snow had filtered into the vestibules and covered the floor with a slippery coating. It was intriguing, this cold, it crept in everywhere. Her breath was quite visible and she blew into the air with a nave enjoyment. Seated in the diner she stared out the window at white hills and valleys and scattered pines whose every branch was a green platter for a cold feast of snow.
Author | : F Scott Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2020-12-21 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
"The Ice Palace" is a modernist short story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published in The Saturday Evening Post on May 22, 1920. It is one of eight short stories originally published in Fitzgerald's first collection, Flappers and Philosophers (New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), and is also included in the collection Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960). The ice palace referenced in the story is based on one that appeared at the 1887 St. Paul, Minnesota, Winter Carnival. A native of the city, Fitzgerald probably heard of the structure during his childhood. The ice labyrinth contained in the bottom floor of the palace appeared as part of the 1888 Ice Palace. Plot: Sally Carrol Happer, a young woman from the fictional city of Tarleton, Georgia, United States of America, is bored with her unchanging environment. Her local friends are dismayed to learn she is engaged to Harry Bellamy, a man from an unspecified town in the northern United States of America. She brushes off their concerns, alluding to her need for something more in her life, a need to see "things happen on a big scale."Sally Carrol travels to the north during the winter to visit Harry's home town and meet his family. The winter weather underscores her growing disillusionment with the decision to move north, until her moment of epiphany in the town's local ice palace. In the end, Sally Carrol returns home
Author | : Deborah Blumenthal |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Criminals |
ISBN | : 0618159606 |
A girl and her father help plan the annual winter carnival in Saranac Lake Village, New York, as the girl's uncle and other prisoners work together to build its centerpiece, the ice palace.
Author | : Robert E. Swindells |
Publisher | : Hamish Hamilton |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 1977-01-01 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : 9780241896143 |
Author | : Edna Ferber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Helen Lee |
Publisher | : Review and Herald Pub Assoc |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780828018746 |
Author | : Mrs. O. F. Walton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Actors |
ISBN | : |