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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chase-Manhattan's example has encouraged scores of other corporations to embark on ventures into artistic patronage. As a corporate Medici, Rockefeller sincerely considers the art that he buys not only a handy way to win investors or project a good image, but also a "notable source of pleasure and inspiration." Executives can select any kind of work they want in their offices (and happy executives are presumably better executives), but all acquisitions are approved by a committee of museum experts. Generally speaking, paintings tend to be by younger lesser-knowns, graphics by elder reliables (Picasso, Albers, Currier & Ives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: Chase's Tenth | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...businessman, David Rockefeller, 53, president of New York's Chase-Manhattan Bank, might logically be expected to derive considerable satisfaction from the resounding financial success of Chase's ambitious program to decorate its offices and reception areas with fine art. In the decade since the program's inception, the bank has spent $800,000 for 1,500 paintings, sculptures and graphics by 500 artists. The collection's net value has appreciated to $1,500,000 -a 60% increase that compares favorably with the Dow Jones industrial average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collectors: Chase's Tenth | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...This is a building of high achievers," says Joanne Carson. "People who live here are not climbing. They have arrived." The building is United Nations Plaza, a 32-story cooperative apartment complex that hovers above Manhattan and the East River, across the way from U.N. headquarters. The "high achievers" certainly include Joanne's husband Johnny, along with Author Truman Capote, TV Producer David Susskind, Actor Cliff Robertson, Dress Designer Bonnie Cashin and assorted corporation executives. Robert F. Kennedy had a six-room pied-a-terre on the 14th floor. Secretary of State William Rogers' one regret about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: People Who Live in Glass Houses | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...well he might. For 336 families who can afford the price of admission, the U.N. Plaza's twin towers offer the best views in Manhattan. From behind its huge windows (when the wind blows the smog away), residents of "the Compound," as they affectionately call it, can see north to Westchester County, south to New York Harbor and the open ocean beyond, east to Kennedy Airport, and west to the New Jersey Palisades. Prices range from $75,000 for a one-bedroom apartment up to $275,000 for a nine-room duplex-plus maintenance charges of as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: People Who Live in Glass Houses | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

...children's clothes) and Alyce Simon. Mrs. Simon, who describes herself as an "atomic artist," has ripped out all the original interior walls and floors, turned a six-room apartment into a three-room suite that gives the impression of a space platform suspended in the Manhattan sky. Equally intriguing is the eleventh-floor abode of William and Milly Johnstone. Johnstone is a retired officer of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; Mrs. Johnstone, who likes to be called "Milly-san," is a Zen disciple who religiously performs her daily Japanese tea ceremony in a bedroom decorated to resemble the Teahouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: People Who Live in Glass Houses | 4/25/1969 | See Source »

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