RIP, Stewart R. Mott, a Lounge kind of guy:

[Flaxbee]

Or, it seems to me that he was the kind of person who would have been very fun to know:


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/us/14mott.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1213463723-f9J0z0yw6cU0atGAh4an+g

Stewart R. Mott, 70, Offbeat Philanthropist, Dies

By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: June 14, 2008

Stewart R. Mott, a philanthropist whose gifts to progressive and sometimes offbeat causes were often upstaged by his eccentricities, like cultivating a farm with 460 plant species (including 17 types of radishes), a chicken coop and a compost pile, atop his Manhattan penthouse, died Thursday night. He was 70 and had homes in North Salem, N.Y. and Bermuda.

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Mr. Mott’s philanthropy included birth control, abortion reform, sex research, arms control, feminism, civil liberties, governmental reform, gay rights and research on extrasensory perception.

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Mr. Mott seemed to relish poking his finger in the eye of General Motors, a company that his father, Charles Stewart Mott, helped shape as an early high executive. In the ’60s, the younger Mr. Mott drove a battered red Volkswagen with yellow flower decals when he drove at all. He lambasted G.M. at its annual meeting for not speaking out against the Vietnam War. He gave money to a neighborhood group opposing a new G.M. plant because it would involve razing 1,500 homes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Flaxbee!

Today's LA Times had a nice obit on him too...

And I remember him from the 60's and 70's!

He was very cool indeed...

He would have fit in here perfectly...

A toast to his very free spirit!:toast:

Safe passage to him...:hug: