N.Y.) Jewish Museum (New York
Author
Publisher
The Jewish Museum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Stettheimer was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemian and a flapper, a poet, a theater designer, and above all an influential painter with a sharp satirical wit. Stettheimer collaborated with Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, befriended (and...
Author
Publisher
The Jewish Museum
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The designer and architect Pierre Chareau (1883-1950) was a pivotal figure in modernism. His extraordinary Art Deco furniture is avidly collected and his visionary glass house, the Maison de Verre, is celebrated, but the breadth of his design genius has been little explored. Chareau linked architecture, fine arts, and style; designed furniture for avant-garde films and chic homes; collected artists such as Picasso and Mondrian; and was a radical innovator...
