Word: showroom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appropriately housed in the bright Bignou Gallery high over the Rolls-Royce showroom on Manhattan's 57th Street, there opened last week the world's first public exhibition of the first tapestries ever woven from cartoons of famed modern artists. Agog at the novelty of seeing in fine-textured silk and wool original examples of what France's onetime Premier Edouard Herriot called in his catalog introduction "the whimsical fantasy of a Dufy, the 'color researches' of a Matisse, the free inspiration of a Picasso, the often satirical gravity of a Rouault," ecstatic esthetes gurgled...
...gazing at a jewelry-display behind the invisible pane, returned with hammer & chisel, chopped a hole in invisibility, walked off with three diamond rings worth $36,000. Police soon caught the culprit, recovered two of the three rings. Other invisible glass windows have been installed at the Chrysler Building showroom, Lord & Taylor's, Brooks Bros, and Woodward & Lothrop (Washington). Installations are being made at Mandel Bros. (Chicago) and Jordan Marsh (Boston...
...salesmen have begun to arrive. They line the corridor outside the buyer's office. Some are empty handed; others lug heavy sample cases. Office boys dart in & out carrying their cards. The salesman's object is to wheedle the buyer into visiting his firm's showroom. Such an excursion will never take her outside the area bounded by Seventh Avenue, Madison Avenue, 30th Street and 42nd Street. At the manufacturer's showrooms the buyer may spend a whole day in a booth inspecting dress goods, sometimes on live models. She generally visits four or five showrooms...
Last week no depressing seasonal valleys, no troublesome style changes marred the corset curve. Warner Brothers' Chairman DeVer Howard, 65, son of the elder of the two founders, stayed in Bridgeport busily manufacturing. But proudly walking around the Warner Bros, showroom was the son of the other founder, shrewd, kindly Lucien Thompson Warner, 52, who was last year selected by his colleagues to head the committee which codified corsets, seventh industry to come under the NRA. And busy in their own showrooms chatting with buyers were the proprietors of many another corset company whose name is familiar...
Last week Temperature Corp. opened its doors to the public in a sleek, black-walled showroom in Manhattan's Chrysler Building. Banker friends of Walter Chrysler Sr. dropped in the first day to shake hands with his son. Hotel managers popped in to have a look at the little, air-cooling, air-washing, dehumidifying device which Temperature Corp. will sell for $175 plus installation and condensing unit. "Airtemp" will be manufactured in Detroit by Amplex Manufacturing Co., a division of Chrysler Motors. Standing less than three feet high, the cabinet is attached to an ordinary electric base plug and water...