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...stores of Manhattan-based F.A.O. Schwarz, where toddlers of the rich and famous could acquire an 8-ft. stuffed giraffe ($4,500) or a child-size Jaguar sedan ($6,000). Now the 128-year-old retailer has joined still another trend: foreign ownership. A Dutch department-store conglomerate, Koninklijke Bijenkorf Beheer (KBB), has agreed to buy the toy retailer from the Morse-Harris Group, owners since 1985. Estimated price: $40 million. Once America's top toy merchant, Schwarz was - losing customers by the early 1980s to competitors like Toys "R" Us. But Morse-Harris revived the firm by closing unprofitable...
Foreign Bayer A.G. 300 54 16,200 Bijenkorf 500 24 12,000 Broken Hill Proprietary 2,000 5 10,000 Dresdener Bank 300 49 14,700 Karstadt Rudolph 100 D.M. 75 180 13,500 Kaufholf A.G. Bearer Shares 50 194 9,700 Netherlands Insurance Co. of 1845 3 3,770 11,310 Perrier ADR 1,000 14 14,000 Photo-Products Gevaert 500 22 11,000 S.A. Super Bazars 500 22 11,000 Supermarches...
Latest and handsomest building is the just-completed Bijenkorf ("Beehive") department store, designed by Hungarian-born, Bauhaus-trained Architect Marcel Breuer (TIME, Oct. 22). Last week its artistic companion piece and focal point was set into place: a massive (36 tons, 80 ft. tall), free-standing sculpture, placed on the sidewalk, that reaches up nearly to the top of the five-story department store. It is the most ambitious and successful combination of modern sculpture and architecture yet attempted...
...Sculptor Naum Gabo, a near neigh bor of Breuer's in Connecticut, the Bijenkorf commission was the dream of a lifetime. A constructivist (along with his brother, Antoine Pevsner) since the movement's pioneer days in Russia, Gabo still bases his work on the esthetics of mathematics, modern material, and machine motifs. His present work, which took more than a year to construct in steel and aluminum bronze, is as abstract as he has ever done. "I'm not a naturalist," he explains, "who works from a face, a landscape or an event. I have only...
...conservative Hagenaars up in arms. The building's slab fagade, with its overall pattern and trapezoid-shaped windows topped with matching panels of polished grey granite, looked to one of them like "a sponge cake," and, worst of all, had a suspicious resemblance to Rotterdam's new Bijenkorf...
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