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...collection, SOM was providing a setting that even the Medicis might have envied. The golden carpeting for the 17th floor executive offices came from Hong Kong. SOM designed tables to conform to the disciplined lines of the building; the chairs ranged from Mies van der Rohe's elegant Barcelona model to the stubby leather swivel chairs designed by Ward Bennett-who also advised on color and office appointments. Many of the textiles used are handwoven, come from as far away as Thailand...
...influence and finally take over a popular wartime regime. Also, he trained in the NKVD or the Spanish SIM, a corps of future Red quislings-Togliatti. Ulbricht, Malinovsky, Tito. Without endorsing Franco, many readers will draw the hard conclusion from Historian Thomas' documents that if the Madrid-Barcelona republic had beaten Franco, it would have been as a Communist or "people's" republic...
...Towers in a Park." It was the first of many plans for cities-plans that called for the redoing of Barcelona, Algiers Antwerp, Buenos Aires, and the war-destroyed French city of Saint-Dié. None were built, but they still marked him as one of the most audacious city planners of his time, the man who more than anyone else foresaw the age of the traffic jam and the exploding slum. At the center of his City of Three Million was a group ot cross-shaped skyscrapers, 50 to 60 stones high, placed far apart in expanses of greebery...
...decided that Campalans would be a Catalan born in 1886, the fifth son of a peasant family. Adding details, he had "J.T.C." run away from home, pursue an actress to Barcelona, meet Picasso, invent Cubism ("It's simple. Before, pictures were seen from the outside: now they are seen from the inside"), explore Abstractionism, then abruptly disappear from Paris in August...
March then pressured Franco's courts to declare Barcelona Traction bankrupt. Since Barcelona Traction held all of the Catalonian utilities common stock in Canada, the courts ordered "duplicate" shares printed in Spain, auctioned off the counterfeit shares to the highest bidder-who was, of course, Juan March. Control of the multimillion-dollar empire thus passed to March for only $900,000. Sofina, left with a paper corporation, fought the case through the courts, spent more than $3,000,000 on legal fees. Even if Sofina wins a whopping settlement (prospect: $13 million to $16 million) March has a bargain...