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New York Interior Design
1935-1985
Volume I: Inventors of Tradition
By Judith Gura
Acanthus Press Visual Library
NEW PRICE!
12 x 10 inches, 332 pages
Over 300 photographs and drawings, 266 in color Cloth, dust jacket ISBN: 978-0-926494-51-0 October 2008 New York City has always been home to the chic and urbane—a place where Andy Warhol entertained in his French Empire salon and where Babe Paley served martinis and cigarettes in her taxicab-yellow living room. Who made this city the center of cosmopolitan interior design as we know it today? The answer is found in the lavishly illustrated profiles of the nearly 100 interior designers featured in the two-volumes of
Over 600 photographs assembled by author Judith Gura present a visual biography of the city’s interior innovators. From the refreshed Francophilia of Eleanor McMillen Brown to the high-tech minimalism of Ward Bennett, New York Interior Design unfolds a glittering panorama of New York’s old world duplexes, river and park-view towers, and its minimalist downtown lofts. Volume I, Inventors of Tradition, highlights the careers and showcases the work of the designers who translated and then transformed European period styles into a new vocabulary for
Inventors of Tradition is accompanied by Volume II: Masters of Modernism.
Acanthus Press Visual Library presents worlds of culture, art, and design through images.
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