Design: Fashionable Is Not Enough

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> "Grand Exchange," fiber banners for an office atrium of the Cincinnati Bell Inc. headquarters, Cincinnati. Gerhardt Knodel, designer. The ancient art of weaving is used here, in Knodel's words, "to color the air" of an interior court.

> Helena Chair. Sunar, manufacturer. Niels Diffrient, designer. A chair not "to enhance architectural space," as some designers would have it, but to sit and work on, and a beauty to boot.

> Williwear showroom, New York City. A rough and tough cityscape has been wittily recreated by the SITE design firm in an industrial building in Manhattan's garment district. Painted a uniform pale gray, the room shows women's and men's fashions to their most colorful advantage.

> Sun Company logotype. Anspach Grossman Portugal, designers. A radiant new image for a nearly century-old corporation.

> Eureka Mighty Mite vacuum cleaner. Eureka Co., Bloomington, Ill., manufacturers and designers. A powerful canister vacuum cleaner light enough to carry on a shoulder strap.

> Meredith Corp., Des Moines. Architects Charles Herbert and Associates transformed a hodgepodge of old additions into a modern office complex by wrapping them in glass and piercing them with light courts.

—By Wolf Von Eckardt