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Art --- Private collections. --- Burlingham, Hiram --- Drake, Annie D. --- Drake, Helen V. --- White, Stanford, --- Art collections.
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Art auctions --- Art auctions. --- Art objects --- Art objects. --- Art --- Art --- Furniture --- Furniture. --- Meubles --- Objets d'art --- Painting --- Painting. --- Peinture --- Rugs --- Rugs. --- Tapestry --- Tapestry. --- Tapisserie --- Private collections. --- Vente aux enchères --- White, Stanford, --- White, Stanford, --- Art collections --- New York (State)
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The designer of such landmarks as the Washington Square Arch, the New York Herald and Tiffany Buildings, and the homes of captains of American industry, Stanford White is a legendary figure in the history of American architecture. Yet while the exteriors and floor plans of his designs have been extensively studied and written about, no book has fully examined the other aspect of his career, which claimed at least half of his time and creativity. Wayne Craven's work offers the first study of Stanford White as an interior decorator and a dealer in antiques and the fine arts. Craven also offers a vivid portrait of the sweeping social and cultural changes taking place in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He places White's work as an interior decorator within the context of the lives and society of the nouveaux riches who built unprecedented fortunes during the Industrial Revolution. Rejecting the dominant middle-class tastes and values of the United States, the Whitney's, Vanderbilt's, Astor's, Payne's, Mackay's, and other wealthy New York families saw themselves as the new aristocracy and desired the prestige and trappings accorded to Old World nobility. Stanford White fulfilled their hunger for aristocratic recognition by adorning their glamorous Fifth Avenue mansions and Long Island estates with the sculptures, stained-glass windows, coats of arms, and carved fireplaces of the European past. Interior decorators such as White did more than just buy single pieces for these families. They purchased entire rooms from palazzos, chateaux, villas, nunneries, and country houses; had them dismantled; and shipped-both furnishings and architectural elements-to their American clients. Through Stanford White's activities, Craven uncovers the mostly, but not always, legal business of dealing in antiquities, as American money entered and changed the European art market. Based on the archives of the Avery Architectural Library of Columbia University and the New-York Historical Society, this book recovers a neglected yet significant part of White's career, which lasted from the 1870's to his murder in 1906. White not only set the bar for twentieth-century architecture but also defined the newly emerging profession of interior design.
Interior decorators --- Antique dealers --- Antique shops --- Antiques dealers --- Art dealers --- Antiques business --- Selling --- Antiques --- White, Stanford, --- White, Standford,
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McKim, Mead & White is the best-known architecture firm of America's Gilded Age, and designed many of the most iconic buildings including the Boston Public Library, Washington Square Arch, and the campuses of Columbia and New York Universities. The firm built opulent residences and private clubs for the nation's wealthiest and most powerful, buildings that are now well-loved cultural institutions. McKim, Mead & White: Selected Works 1879-1915 collects the work of these influential architects and their successors. Compiling the original four volumes into one, this magnificent edition is supplemented with an introduction from Richard Guy Wilson and an essay by Leland Roth. Published in association with the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art.
Architecture --- Architecture --- Architecture --- Architecture --- History --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire --- McKim, Charles Follen, --- Mead, William Rutherford, --- White, Stanford, --- McKim, Mead & White.
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November 1891, the heart of Gilded Age Manhattan. Thousands filled the streets surrounding Madison Square, fingers pointing, mouths agape. After countless struggles, Stanford White--the country's most celebrated architect was about to dedicate America's tallest tower, the final cap set atop his Madison Square Garden, the country's grandest new palace of pleasure. Amid a flood of electric light and fireworks, the gilded figure topping the tower was suddenly revealed--an eighteen-foot nude sculpture of Diana, the Roman Virgin Goddess of the Hunt, created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the country's finest sculptor and White's dearest pal.The Grandest Madison Square Garden tells the remarkable story behind the construction of the second, 1890, Madison Square Garden and the controversial sculpture that crowned it. Set amid the magnificent achievements of nineteenth-century American art and architecture, the book delves into the fascinating private lives of the era's most prominent architect and sculptor and the nature of their intimate relationship. Hinman shows how both men pushed the boundaries of America's parochial aesthetic, ushering in an era of art that embraced European styles with American vitality. Situating the Garden's seminal place in the history of New York City, as well as the entire country, The Grandest Madison Square Garden brings to life a tale of architecture, art, and spectacle amid the elegant yet scandal-ridden culture of Gotham's decadent era.
Architecture and society --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- History --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- White, Stanford, --- Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, --- Gaudens, Augustus Saint-, --- St. Gaudens, Augustus, --- White, Standford, --- Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y. : 1890-1925)
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