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Iovanna
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Iovanna, in going over your letter I find that you've asked me what I think about having a number of pavilions and it would be very nice but I think, if it's going to be exhibited there, it should have some consideration (as you father always did - Wes, too) for the landscape and so much of it is rocky and almost abstract in form.

I think the use of the great yuccas and the forms of those giant cactus would make a terribly interesting look.

Now to get back to the materielle.  I've already written one of the heads of duPont to ask him about Mylar and Celotex.  It seems to me that I can swing something there and my only hope is that it is fire-proof and quite impervious to the hot sun.

I think there are a number of fabrics in my studio that could be used but most of my panels are in three to five yard lengths and colorful as most of them are, they would have to conform to your color palette.  Of course I'll come down and give a talk and show all kinds of new things, particularly in the world of fabrics but there is so much to be done before that and I'll help you in every way I can to get materials for the pavilion.

I'm so glad you and Eve are better and I hope your mother is completely free of any flu.  Almost anybody who had it in New York still has reoccurences and hangovers. 

Does the Indian design come into play at all in the Arizona desert?  It seems to me that we might use a great many of those fabrics (the look) that Jean showed me of the Navajo and the Pyote and the other Indian tribes.

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