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...past, Matisse's studio had always been as gay as a toy shop, sparkling with pinned-up scraps of colored paper, polished brass bric-a-brac and bright swatches of silk. This time it was chaste and bare. The only colored paper cutouts that remained looked like designs for stained glass windows, which they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Higher & Harder | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Both "Joe" and Max Keezer stand ready to absorb miscellanies so that the back-against-the-wall undergraduate may find enough money to take care of all those relatives. And the careful pick and choose, once-in-a-lifetime shopper might find a choice bric or brac if he investigates carefully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Spirit Catches Square; Merchants Finish Holiday Trim Job | 12/3/1948 | See Source »

...mornings in the studio, his armchair drawn up to the easel, painting from the model or still life. The window looks out on to the uncared-for garden, and provides the quietest view in the room. Everywhere else one looks is blazing with color: bright silk cushions, bric-a-brac, copper vases, flowers, fruits, costume jewelry, feathers, and yards of vivid material looped over chairs or hanging ready for his models. In one corner stands a huge aviary which used to be flashing with Milanese pigeons (most of them died during the war). An old-fashioned country telephone perches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty & the Beast | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...Fear because of his pervasive pessimism, Berillon sat hunched in his eerie consulting room, a tight, dusty black suit stretched on his bony frame, a black skullcap pulled over his forehead and a purple velvet tie flapping about his scrawny neck. The floor was littered with bric-a-brac and jagged pieces of skulls. Intricate, whirring machines on the table set colored lights blinking. They were calculated to put patients into hypnotic slumber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In a High Wind | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...plain man despite a flair for fancy clothes, Roy Cullen found that he had more money than he knew what to do with. He built himself a big house in Houston's swank River Oaks section, installed indirect lighting and expensive bric-a-brac and landscaped it with costly azalea bushes, each with its own sprinkling system. He provided generously for his four married daughters and gave $10 million to the University of Houston and local hospitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: A Man So Rich | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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