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Word: scheiner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artistic atmosphere of the Manhattan shop, with its grey oak panels, pigskin walls and the de Chirico mural, is going to come high to Scheiner clients. A sack suit by Scheiner & Co. costs $175 up, evening clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: De Chirico for Scheiners | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Brothers Benno, Leo, Marco & Emil Scheiner, fresh from Europe, Artist de Chirico had fashioned a twelve-foot mural. A curly-headed youth in a collar much too big for him and full evening dress with swooping tails, occupies the right foreground. In the middle distance are a couple of characteristic de Chirico broken columns and an even more typical roly-poly, curly-tailed, prancing de Chirico horse, on which is mounted a man in a pink coat. Other figures seen are clothed in sack suits. "It took me about a week," said Artist de Chirico at last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: De Chirico for Scheiners | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Benno Scheiner fancies himself an artist as well as an artist in his line. He, too, once dreamed of being a painter, learned to satisfy his aspirations by making his own fashion drawings, as some of the great Paris couturiers do. Sons and grandsons of Viennese hofschneider (court tailors), the current Scheiners expanded their Vienna business, opened branches in Berlin, Amsterdam, Antwerp. It is their boast that many a London blood travels all the way to Antwerp to have his trousers fitted by either Benno, Leo, Marco or Emil. Because some U. S. tycoons do likewise the Scheiners decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: De Chirico for Scheiners | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

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