Forsyth's

The building, erected as the flagship store of R. W. Forsyth in 1906–1907, was designed by the Scottish architect John James Burnet.[2] An extension, designed by the architects Burnet, Son & Dick was built in 1925. The facade is decorated with important Neo-Baroque sculpture.[3] At the corner on a ledge above the third floor, and directly above the entrance doors, stands a figure of a woman who holds a sewing machine. Also at the corner, and forming part of windowed aedicules at the second floor, are flanking tympanum relief sculptures of a longhaired figure driving a quadriga with an F (for Forsyth) on the front of the chariot.[4] Running along an eaves gallery at the top of the building is a series - six on the Princes Street side, and four on the South St Andrews Street side - of term figures with fantastical heads by the Scottish sculptors William Birnie Rhind and William Reid Dick.[5] On top of the corner tower sits a gigantic partly gilded steel sculpture of armillary sphere decorated with the signs of the zodiac and with three dancing putti, designed by the English sculptor Gilbert Bayes.[6]

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  Figure driving a quadriga, Princes Street facade, Forsyth's
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  Term figure no. 3, Princes Street facade, Forsyth's
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  Term figure no. 4, Princes Street facade, Forsyth's
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  Term figure no. 5, Princes Street facade, Forsyth's
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  Sculpture of armillary sphere with zodiac and three putti, Forsyth's
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  Term figure no. 2, South St Andrew's Street façade, Forsyth's