AT HOME IN MANHATTAN
MODERN DECORATIVE ARTS, 1925 TO THE DEPRESSION
Karen Davies

Karen Davies: AT HOME IN MANHATTAN: MODERN DECORATIVE ARTS, 1925 TO THE DEPRESSION. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1983. First edition. A fine oversized softcover bookin stiff, printed wrappers. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out of print.

9.25 x 11.25 softcover catalogue with 124 pages and 81 b/w images carefully referenced and catalogued. The"Sources Consulted" index in this volume is worth the price of admission by itself.

From the book: "At Home in Manhattan: Modern Decorative Arts, 1925 to the Depression" is the first exhibition in several decades to highlight the works of major American designers active in New York City during the late 1920s.

Including eighty-one objects by forty-seven designers, this exhibition sheds new light on a largely forgotten era of American design. In the past fifteen years several exhibitions in Europe and America have brought the so-called Art Deco style to public attention, and numerous histories of design movements of the 1920s have appeared.

These endeavors, however, have focused primarily on European developments, whereas American designs of the period remain largely unexamined...The objects in "At Home in Manhattan" provide valuable insights into a tremendously vital and experimental period in New York's history...

In essence, the objects assembled here tell us much about the ways American designers appropriated tradition, technology, modern art, and their changing environment into new and creative designs."

Contents:

  • Foreword by Patricia Kane
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Notes to the Catalogue Entries
  • Using the Past
  • Modern Art
  • Urban Life
  • Promoting Modern Design
  • Design for Industry
  • Sources Consulted
  • Photographic Credits
  • Index

This volume includes FURNITURE by WALTER VON NESSEN, EUGENE SCHOEN, LOUIS RORIMER, PAUL T. FRANKL, HUNT DIEDERICH, RAYMOND HOOD, ELY JACQUES KAHN, KEM WEBER, GILBERT ROHDE, NORMAN BEL GEDDES, JOSEF URBAN, WHARTON ESHERICK; METALWORK by PETER MULLER-MUNK, ERIK MAGNUSSEN, RUSSEL WRIGHT, WOLFGANG HOFFMANN; LIGHTING by DONALD DESKEY, WALTER VON NESSEN; GLASSWARE by WALTER DORWIN TEAGUE,MAURICE HEATON; CERAMICS by HUNT DIEDERICH, VALLY WIESELTHIERand TEXTILES by RUTH REEVES and more.

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