Dear Sugar and Ask Polly counsel at a cosmic frequency: their replies are rambling, lyrical, designed to melt one's brain.
He tended to avoid literal representations in his work, preferring instead to emphasize quietly lyrical abstract design.
Most of the work in the exhibition is lyrical in design, and depicts everyday people in familiar situations.
Conceptual control supplanted de Kooningesque lyrical invention.
Alas, the Case Study Houses program progressed inexorably downward, from the lyrical early designs of Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano and Craig Ellwood to the static late schemes by Killingsworth, Brady & Smith and Buff & Hensman.
Its lyrical ton-sur-ton design, done mostly in a scheme of ecru, black and white, evokes the building's aristocratic past while being resolutely modern.
But the real treat is reproductions of the shirts themselves, more than 100 of them, spread out like wallpaper swatches, with lyrical, weird or kitschy designs like palm trees, sailboats, flying fish, surfboards, exploding volcanoes, hula girls and night-blooming cereus patterns.
As he traveled the world, removed from the literary circles of Paris, he slowly elaborated his theocentric conception of the universe and conceived his vocation: the revelation through poetry, both lyrical and dramatic, of the grand design of creation.
In his music dramas, German composer Richard Wagner suggested new possibilities for the use of light and design in a unified production a lyrical synthesis.
The new designs, Saval writes, were "breathing, lyrical and, above all, flexible".
