Mr. A. Elzas interviewed by Rufus ? Stillman (and Constance Breuer) concerning the construction of the De Bijenkorf Department Store and Garage in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Breuer, Marcel, 1902-
- See more items in
- Marcel Breuer papers
- Marcel Breuer papers / Series 4: Interviews / 4.2: Audiocassettes
- Sponsor
- Funding for the microfilming of this collection was provided by the Gerta Charitable Trust. Funding for the digitization of the microfilm was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.
- Date
- September 11, 1983
- Container
- Box 7, Reel unfilmed, Frame unfilmed
- Archival Repository
- Archives of American Art
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Marcel Breuer papers, 1920-1986. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- The Archives of American Art makes its archival collections available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by copyright and/or donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. AAA makes no representations concerning such rights and restrictions and it is the user's responsibility to determine whether rights or restrictions exist and to obtain any necessary permission to access, use, reproduce and publish the collections. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.
- Scope and Contents note
- (2 tapes, approximately 90 minutes, side 2 of Tape 2 is blank. Tape 1: Elzas recounts the history of the building of the De Bijenkorf Store, including recollections of Breuer and G. Van der Wal, with brief references to their reaction to the assassination of John F. Kennedy; Tape 2: Elzas discusses the Van Leer office building in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, and mentions the circus; he discusses Naum Gabo's sculpture and briefly refers to Alexander Calder's work; there is also a description of a trip to Greece with Breuer and I. M. Pei and a discussion of the Flaine Ski Resort Town)
- Collection Restrictions
- The microfilm for this collection has been digitized and is available online via the Archives of American Art website.
- Record ID
- ebl-1503510573996-1503510574136-8
- Metadata Usage
- CC0