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...cash in the millions to keep it. He lamented that he would not be present at the auction. "This will be the biggest sale of the century," Fribourg said, and in a way he could be right. No other collection made up primarily of antiques and rare bric-a-brac (as opposed to great painting and sculpture) has ever brought more at auction than Sotheby's estimate of the value of Fribourg...
...corner of Spring and Mott streets in Manhattan's fading Little Italy. Inside, the furnishings are spare-some benches and tables, a cupboard. But if the house lacks furniture, it does have marvels of decor. There is a room lined with towering cases of gilded bric-a-brac. In another room, shallow honeycombs of orange-crate cabinetry are filled with carefully posed objects-chair legs, a broken wheel, a bowling pin. parts of a table pedestal, a banister, some toilet seats-all gleaming goldly. The owner of this hammer-and-nails Fort Knox is Scavenger-Sculptress Louise Nevelson...
...spectacular Operation Bootstrap. For half a century after the U.S. won the island from Spain in the Spanish-American War, Puerto Rico was a forgotten territory, existing mostly on what it could grow. Today, more than 800 companies have subsidiaries in Puerto Rico, turning out everything from bric-a-brac to electronic instruments, providing more than 60,000 jobs. The island's 1961 per capita income: $621, double what...
...Rothko. Newman and other abstractionists, as well as Greek and African sculptures and pre-Columbian potteries, loom everywhere-in the living room and kitchen, bedroom and bathroom. Because action painters feel a compulsion to paint big, Heller kept the apartment free of cornices, architectural decoration and ornamental bric-a-brac whose fussy detail would clash with the large-scale paintings. But, insists Collector Heller, "the idea that our apartment was built around an art gallery is a total misconception. It is a home, and paintings look best in a home. We were solely interested in creating an atmosphere in which...
...river barge that plies the internal waterways of France; it becomes a self-sufficient universe as Vigo focusses his attention on object after object, making every sequence almost a tactile experience. Most of the action occurs below deck in small, confined staterooms filled with the bric-a-brac that the four passengers have brought with them. Each room exudes its own atmosphere, the personal odor of its occupant...