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The Opulent Interiors of the Gilded Age

Author : Arnold Lewis,James Turner,Steven McQuillin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486319476

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Best source of information and illustrations for private houses in Eastern cities during the early 1880s. Rare photographs of mansions belonging to Vanderbilt, Morgan, Grant, and many others. Extensive, informative new text.

American Country Houses of the Gilded Age

Author : A. Lewis,George William Sheldon
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1982-12-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486243016

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American Country Houses of the Gilded Age Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This exquisite documentation of the architectural creativity that transformed the country after the Civil War reproduces fascinating and historically important photographs and plans for a total of 97 buildings — 93 houses and 4 casinos — built during the 1880s. Adds a new, thoroughly accurate text by Arnold Lewis. Approximately 200 illustrations.

The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910

Author : Esther Crain
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316353687

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The Gilded Age in New York, 1870-1910 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and Central Park, as well as sprawling bridges that connected the once-distant boroughs. In Manhattan, more than a million poor immigrants crammed into tenements, while the half of the millionaires in the entire country lined Fifth Avenue with their opulent mansions. The Gilded Age in New York captures what is was like to live in Gotham then, to be a daily witness to the city's rapid evolution. Newspapers, autobiographies, and personal diaries offer fascinating glimpses into daily life among the rich, the poor, and the surprisingly large middle class. The use of photography and illustrated periodicals provides astonishing images that document the bigness of New York: the construction of the Statue of Liberty; the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge; the shimmering lights of Luna Park in Coney Island; the mansions of Millionaire's Row. Sidebars detail smaller, fleeting moments: Alice Vanderbilt posing proudly in her "Electric Light" ball gown at a society-changing masquerade ball; immigrants stepping off the boat at Ellis Island; a young Theodore Roosevelt witnessing Abraham Lincoln's funeral. The Gilded Age in New York is a rare illustrated look at this amazing time in both the city and the country as a whole. Author Esther Crain, the go-to authority on the era, weaves first-hand accounts and fascinating details into a vivid tapestry of American society at the turn of the century. Praise for New-York Historical Society New York City in 3D In The Gilded Age, also by Esther Crain: "Vividly captures the transformation from cityscape of horse carriages and gas lamps 'bursting with beauty, power and possibilities' as it staggered into a skyscraping Imperial City." -Sam Roberts, The New York Times "Get a glimpse of Edith Wharton's world." - Entertainment Weekly Must List "What better way to revisit this rich period . . ?" - Library Journal

Herter Brothers

Author : Katherine S. Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : UOM:39015034004708

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The Herter brothers' extraordinary accomplishment has never before been the subject of a book. Here, at last, is an in-depth study of these talented men, their company, and its work, prized then as now for its design, richness of materials and detail, superb craftsmanship, and splendid diversity.

Gilded Mansions

Author : Wayne Craven
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393067548

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Gilded Mansions Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Gilded Age (1865-1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaunted their new wealth--especially where their homes were concerned. They erected French chateaus and Italian palazzos on New York's Fifth Avenue, at Newport, and elsewhere, often taking inspiration from Parisian styles of the Second Empire. They rejected more modest American styles just as they rejected middle-class society, and for interior decoration they turned to such artisans as Tiffany, Herter Brothers, and Allard's of Paris. Immensely readable and illuminated with 250 stunning color and black-and-white illustrations, this is the fascinating story of America's first millionaire society, the way they lived and partied, and the lush artistic and cultural legacy they established.

Opulent Textiles

Author : Richard E. Slavin
Publisher : Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Textile fabrics
ISBN : UOM:39015029526251

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Opulent Textiles Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The sumptuous brocades, damasks, toiles, tapestries, chintzes, and other fabrics of F. Schumacher & Co. have graced the walls and furnishings of some of the century's great buildings--from the White House and the Supreme Court to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Metropolitan Opera House. This book chronicles 100 years of American taste in elegant interiors revealed by the Schumacher company's archival collection. 250 photographs.

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

Author : Society of Architectural Historians
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015020370238

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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Includes special issues.

New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century

Author : Joseph Byron,Clay Lancaster
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0486233596

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New York Interiors at the Turn of the Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Descriptive notes and a discussion of stylistic influences augment one hundred thirty-one rare photographs portraying the interiors of New York City homes, businesses, and public places between 1893 and 1916

"Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age"

Author : Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen,Nicholas C. Vincent ,Moira Gallagher
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781588395832

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"Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age" Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This Bulletin presents new discoveries and historical documentation on the preeminent New York cabinetmaker George A. Schastey, illuminating his life and his under-appreciated body of work while providing the first in-depth analysis of the Worsham-Rockefeller house and its patron Arabella Worsham.

Louisine Havemeyer's Art and Activism

Author : Alice Madeline Dodge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:X71762

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Decorating Old House Interiors

Author : Lawrence Schwin
Publisher : Sterling/Main Street
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN : CORNELL:31924089437549

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Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930

Author : Michael C. Kathrens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UCSD:31822035159730

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Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

With anecdotes about the owners brightening the survey of the mansions, their construction, and architectural features, this text contains 43 entries, each illustrated with a wealth of period photos of the building's exterior and, especially, interior rooms and decor. An introduction discusses New York City's architectural history. An appendix with

Contemporary Authors

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Authors
ISBN : UOM:39015064381976

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Contemporary Authors

Author : Scot Peacock,Terrie M. Rooney
Publisher : Contemporary Authors
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0787626678

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Contemporary Authors Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R). Authors in this volume include: Diane Arbus Nina Kiriki Hoffman Michael Moore

The Vanderbilt Homes

Author : Robert B. King
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : UOM:39015014094810

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The Vanderbilt Homes Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

Linked with wealth and power since the 1860s, the Vanderbilts have often been regarded as America's "royal family". Here are 25 of their spectacular houses built during the country's Gilded Age, the height of Vanderbilt preeminence. The dwellings include Fifth Avenue townhouses, luxurious Newport summer palaces, and vast Adirondack mountain retreats. Illustrated.