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Hammacher Schlemmer & Co. is a 104-year-old Manhattan store to which a Park Avenue dowager goes automatically if she wants a washboard, and to which an Indian prince once wrote for a bronco (he got it). For a price, its customers can get every nicety of modern living-from ten varieties of outdoor grills and 90 types of coffeemakers to rhinestone dog collars (for the cocktail hour) and bronze fig leaves (for statues...
Last week Mrs. Else Schlemmer, a small, soft-eyed woman in her 50s, who has run the store since her husband, William F. Schlemmer, died in 1945, called a special meeting of the staff. Standing beside a counter, she announced that she had made a new will. Among the principal beneficiaries: more than 100 employees. Said Mrs. Schlemmer: "I have no children. You are my children ... I have not only taken special note of you who have done an outstanding job for and with us for many years, but I have also taken this step to show my appreciation...
...ideas. Marcel Breuer invented the first tubular steel chair. Bogler and Lindig designed pottery for mass production. Josef Albers turned broken bottles into stained-glass windows, and his wife Anni developed new techniques and textures for fabric weaving. Bayer and Moholy-Nagy experimented with typography and abstract photography, Oskar Schlemmer and Xanti Schawinsky produced abstract stage sets. Painters Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger stuck mainly to painting...