Mountain Musings

Written by David Stillman Meyer and updated from time to time.

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CARS OF ASPEN

Subarus to Lux SUV’s: Which one do you drive? What do they say about the future of Aspen?

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HOW BAUHAUS CAME TO ASPEN

Bauhaus is 110 years old this year. To celebrate, lets look back at how the legendary schools train of thought came to Aspen.

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24 HOURS OF ASPEN

90 Laps, 300,000 vertical feet, 24 grueling hours of bombing Ajax. Here’s a look back at The 24 Hours of Aspen, skiing’s maddest race.

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HERBERT BAYER

Learn more about the Herbert Bayer Magic Carpet installation at the Elk Camp Restaurant, part of the Bauhaus100: Aspen, a valley-wide, year-long celebration of the German school’s important influence on the development of Aspen.

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BAUHAUS IN ASPEN

One hundred years ago, the 20th century’s most revolutionary and influential school of design, art and architecture was founded in Weimar, Germany. When the Nazis shut it down 14 years later, students and teachers fled to the cultural capitals of the world: Paris, Chicago, New York, etc. One such émigré, a Bauhaus instructor, traveled all the way to the American West, to an obscure little town that reminded him of his youth in Austria.

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WILL GWYNTH LET ‘GOOP ASPEN’ STAY FOR GOOD?

… she mentioned that she is not the first Paltrow to lease space in Aspen. Her father, producer Bruce Paltrow, ran a popular restaurant called Gordon’s in the 1980s that was frequented by assorted Kennedys, Fondas and a litany of bold-faced names …

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