The best of his surviving designs - his museum and the Picture Gallery at Dulwich in south London - are modest, if not wholly self-effacing on the outside; as rich as Croesus inside.
Survivors enter late diversification, during which they again expand, but within a design range limited to variations of the previous surviving designs.
Bloodworth-Thomason's personal story is an unlikely journey from the Deep South to Hollywood, teaching high school in Watts, witnessing her mother's 1986 death in an AIDS ward ( (from a transfusion of HIV-infected blood), and becoming an accidental equality activist after surviving Designing Women's Delta Burke.
More spectacular examples of art needlework by the firm include one of the few surviving panels designed by Wheeler in an appliqué technique, a rich, lustrous design of intertwining tulips past their prime in sage green and pink silk velvet on a silvery ground.
Visitors can also view what the museum says are the only surviving instruments designed and built by Galileo, including two telescopes and a lens he used to discover Jupiter's moons.
"Palatial Homes for the Wielders of the Club," said The Eagle in its review of the earliest surviving Ingram designs we know of, for the Fourth Precinct, at Classon and DeKalb Avenues, and the 13th, at Tompkins and Vernon Avenues.
He praises a new house "that appears to have grown over the centuries" entirely without the "inconveniences" of a traditional house, but misses the only surviving building designed by the late critic Martin Pawley, a hunched concrete-and-glass house tucked into an apple orchard near Sudbury.
None of the traditional method is sufficient for the structure to survive basic design earthquake (10% probability of being exceeded over 50 years).
Like Italy's other surviving carrozzeria — the design houses that produce concept cars and sometimes build small runs of vehicles under contract — Bertone is facing hard times.
Both houses, which still survive, were designed by the Dakota's architect, Henry Hardenbergh, and each was at the end of a long row of houses, some of which survive.
