Donald Albrecht

Gilded New York

Design, Fashion, and Society

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The Gilded Years of the late nineteenth century were a vital and glamorous era in New York City as families of great fortune sought to demonstrate their new position by building vast Fifth Avenue mansions filled with precious objects and important painting collections and hosting elaborate fetes and balls. This is the moment of Mrs. Astor's Four Hundred, the rise of the Vanderbilts and Morgans, Maison Worth, Tiffany & Co., Duveen, and Allard. Concurrently these families became New York's first cultural philanthropists, supporting the fledgling Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Opera, among many institutions founded during th… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Falino, Jeannine / Magidson, Phyllis / Johnson, Susan / Mellins, Thomas

ISBN: 978-1-58093-367-4
EAN: 9781580933674
Produktnummer: 14430388
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Masse: 567 g
Abbildungen: 200 color illustrations
Gewicht: 567

Über den Autor

Donald Albrecht is curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York, where he has organized such major exhibitions as Paris/New York: Design, Fashion, Culture 1925-1940 and The American Style. Jeannine Falino, formerly curator of decorative arts and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is now an independent curator specializing in decorative arts, particularly fashion, silver, and jewelry. Among her many publications are Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design (Museum of Art and Design, 2011) and American Luxury: Jewels from the House of Tiffany (ACC, 2008).