In the spring of 1930 Stewart and Company filled for bankruptcy and went out of business, a victim of the Depression and over extending the resources of what was a small company. In the fall of that year the building was reopened as the Bonwit Teller department store, another woman's retailer. The company hired Ely Jacques Kahn to redesign the interiors and entranceway. Out went the rich detailed interior of exotic woods and the jewel box of a entrance. Kahn replaced the doorway with a corporate Art Deco look of repeating pattern pressed metal grate and plain glass. The store would go on to hire Salvador Dali to design a series of Surrealist window displays for the 1936-1937 holiday season.