Venue: the Madison Avenue office of Material ConneXion, a consulting firm that deals with new materials.
"I am not a designer," she said, but "an artist and a researcher in textiles made with new materials".
With new materials, like advanced metal alloys or carbon composites, size and weight are independent, the report said.
"George believed he was doing something better for society, making things with new materials in a timely shape".
From 1947 to 1967 he experimented with new materials, including porcelain on steel panels, cast bronze, and forged enameled wire.
And they are experimenting with new materials and methods that could someday lead to glass structures that are unmarked by metal or other materials.
For much of the last decade, experiments with new materials often reflected the puckish playhouse ethos of the dot-com boom.
And as the infatuation with new materials is increasingly offset with an appreciation of handiwork, Diamond and Baratta's revival of moribund crafts is winning them respect.
Mr. Lovegrove's specialty is in qualifying the present moment in design, rather than restyling the past, by employing new technologies with new materials to define new shapes.
After the war, the handful of board-makers in Southern California began to experiment with new materials, like catalyzed resin, polyurethane foam, and fibreglass.
He and other early enthusiasts experimented with new materials like fiberglass and new designs to increase the stability and range of homemade kayaks.
