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Period ephemera from the archives of Quadriga Art / Reproducta fe atured in Barney's New York, Holiday 2000 windows



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Period ephemera from the archives of Quadriga Art and Reproducta featured in
Barney's New York, Holiday 2000 windows.

Reality television comes to Barneys...sort of.
Barneys New York features live people in a series of period vignettes in the
Madison Avenue Windows for Holiday 2000. The notorious holiday windows,
conceived and designed by Creative Director Simon Doonan, rides on the
zeitgeist of reality TV programming.

Each window features the girls of F.I.T. a living, breathing, duo. Each
inhabits one of five retro room settings, for a period of six weeks. They
will be allowed out to visit family and friends and use the bathroom.
Shoppers will get to watch the couples interact through New Year's.

The five period room settings depict living rooms decked out for Christmas
in the style of the 1940's, 1950's, 1960's, 1970's, and 1980's. Each window
is filled with furniture, memorabilia and period tchotchkes. The furniture
and other items is being provided by specialists in their respective
decades. The exception is the 1980's room which has been entirely decorated
by Mario Buatta, the Prince of Chintz.

Window 1:       The 40's        Furniture provided by Oser
                                Clothing furnished by Cherry
                                Magazines courtesy of Gallagher Paper
Collectibles
                                Greeting cards from the archives of Quadriga
Art

/Reproducta

Window 2        The 50's        Furniture provided by Regeneration
                                Clothing furnished by Cherry
                                Magazines courtesy of Gallagher Paper
Collectibles
                                Decorative Objects: A + J 20th Century
Design
                                Greeting cards from the archives of Quadriga
Art

/Reproducta

Window 3        The 60's        Furniture provided by Las Venus
                                Clothing furnished by Cherry
                                Decorative Objects: A + J 20th Century
Design
                                Greeting cards from the archives of Quadriga
Art

/Reproducta

Window 4        The 70's        Furniture provided by 20th Century
                                Clothing furnished by Cherry
                                Magazines courtesy of Gallagher Paper
Collectibles
                                Greeting cards from the archives of Quadriga
Art

/Reproducta

Window 5        The 80's        Furniture and draperies provided by Anthony
Belfair
                                Floral Bouquet Chintz furnished by Lee Jofa
                                Clothing custom made by Barneys New York

The couples will be dressed in period fashion, engaging in various
activities appropriate to their period-from making a cheese fondue (the
1960's) to dancing the Hustle (the 70's).

The big question is:
                        Who is the Grooviest Couple?

You-the sidewalk audience, get to decide. Pick up a ballot from the
concierge at the front entrance of Barneys and vote for the couple of your
choice. The winning couple will each receive a $2000 contribution towards a
semester's tuition.

For more information:

Souri Kim
Barneys New York Publicity
(212) 450-8696
(212) 450-8486 fax
skim@barneys.com <skim@barneys.com>


Theodore Grunewald
Chief Archivist
Quadriga Art, Inc.
Reproducta Co., Inc.
(212) 685-0751
(212) 889-6868
TGrunewald@QuadrigaArt.com <TGrunewald@QuadrigaArt.com>

Reproducta Company, Inc.  was founded by the family of the late Mr. Rudolph
Schulhof in Berlin, Germany in the early 1920s, with branches in Prague,
London, and Brussels.   The company was re-established  by him in New York
after he was forced to flee Europe in 1939. A fine arts publishing company
specializing in the manufacture of what is commonly referred to as "church
goods", Reproducta produced exclusive and commissioned lines of both secular
and religious merchandise such as "holy cards", memorial folders, religious
booklets, bookmarks, calendars, greeting cards and Christmas cards to
retailers and religious organizations throughout the United States.
Incorporated as Quadriga Art, Inc. in 1950, with a branch office in Milan,
Italy, the company subsequently acquired extensive production and
manufacturing facilities in Pennsauken, New Jersey and in Hong Kong,
enabling it to grow to become a global producer, distributor, and
direct-mail mass-marketer of an even broader array of secular items and
religious articles including pins, medals, statues, decorative plates,
giftware, novelties, toys, Christmas specialties, and clothing.
Within the past year, the company has formed two subsidiary divisions for
catalog merchandising, and issues two retail catalogs monthly, containing
hundreds of religious and seasonal articles.

Dating from the 1940's to the present, and counting nearly 100, 000 images,
the archives, and image databases of Quadriga Art, Inc. and Reproducta
Company, Inc. contain the largest collection of commercial religious art in
the world. The images are available commercially for single or multiple use,
and Quadriga Art / Reproducta welcomes interested scholars in the fields of
religious art & iconography, and popular art & culture.

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