LAREN.- Singer Laren has restored The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. The work was carried out by the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Conservation and Restoration in the Ateliergebouw (the Rijksmuseum’s new conservation studio) in the Dutch capital. The restoration aimed to recover the external appearance of the seriously damaged sculpture. Rodin’s The Thinker, along with six other bronze statues, was stolen from the sculpture garden of Singer Laren on 17 January 2007. It was recovered two days later much the worse for wear. A committee of external experts deliberated on the future of The Thinker and concluded that the statue was well worth restoring so that it could regain its symbolic value for the collection of Singer Laren. The committee recommended that The Thinker be subject to a responsible and supervised reversible restoration with as few int