"At first we kept saying: ‘We’re going to beat it. We’re going to beat it.’ Then after awhile we began to realize that we might not beat it. Then toward the end, it became clear that we definitely weren’t going to beat it. That’s when she started telling me that she wanted me to move on and find happiness with somebody else. But I’m not quite there yet. Not long ago a noise woke me up in the middle of the night, and I rolled over to ask if she needed anything."
The Cone of Silence. (Get Smart, 1960s)
Never-ending fascination 4
Thinking. Not thinking. Happens every time.
—Dorn
TRUTH.
Evening commute
—Dorn
"It makes you feel that you’re having a party whenever you eat."
Product information sheet for Heller Dinnerware, 1978
8 1/2” x 11”
Box 519, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
The gang’s all here! 👋 (at Studio 12B)
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809–October 7, 1849) in Eleonora
Song: “Dreamer” by Jenn Grant
Yes.
The Rotunda Chair was designed by Lella and Massimo Vignelli with David Law for Sunar-Hauserman in 1979.
Rotunda chair drawing
pencil on paper
8.5” x 11”
Box 505, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Brochure for 1979 Vignelli exhibition at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA
7” x 7”
Box 566, Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Beuys R US
Gray morning
—Dorn
Happy Birthday Massimo Vignelli
Say “cheese,” birthday boys.
“I just want to die gracefully.”
“Is there a lot of fear wrapped up in that desire?”
“Of course there is. Facing the inevitable physical decline, not knowing what’s ahead. Hospital visits, chemotherapy, it’s all very scary. Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion, and it springs from the unknown. What was that T.S. Eliot quote, something about “interstellar spaces…”
———————————From East Coker,
by T.S. Eliot"O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant,
The captains, merchant bankers, eminent men of letters,
The generous patrons of art, the statesmen and the rulers,
Distinguished civil servants, chairmen of many committees,
Industrial lords and petty contractors, all go into the dark.”
ALL.
Never-ending fascination 3
“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”