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Paris-New York : design fashion culture, 1925-1940

Title
Paris-New York : design fashion culture, 1925-1940 / Museum of the City of New York.
Publication
[New York] : Monacelli Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Museum of the City of New York.
Description
240 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm
Summary
"Paris/New York explores architectures, urbanism, art, decorative arts, industrial design, fashion, cuisine. travel and jazz to provide a complete picture of the cities' accomplishments in this astoundingly productive period between the two World Wars. Twelve essays by leading French and American scholars and 250 illustrations vividly re-create the contributions of the era's legendary figures."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-235) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments / Donald Albrecht -- Preface / Susan Henshaw Jones -- Introduction / Donald Albrecht -- Metropolis in the Mirror: Planning Regional New York and Paris / Jean-Louis Cohen -- Modernity and Tradition in Beaux-Arts New York / Richard Guy Wilson -- Beyond Metaphor: Skyscrapers Through Parisian Eyes / Isabelle Gournay -- Africa on the Spiral: Jazz in New York and Paris Between the Wars / Jody Blake -- Fashion Showdown: New York Versus Paris 1914-1941 / Phyllis Magidson -- The Longest Gangplank / Liora J. Cobin -- New York Haute Cuisine / Amy Azzarito -- Art Deco to American Modern at the 1929 Metropolitan Museum of Art Industrial Arts Exhibition / Marilyn F. Friedman -- From Deco to Streamlined: Donald Deskey and Raymond Loewy / David A. Hanks -- A Bridge to Postwar American Design: Gilbert Rohde and the 1937 Paris Exposition / Phyllis Ross -- Neo-Romantics / Kenneth E. Silver -- Board of Trustees, Museum of the City of New York.
ISBN
  • 9781580932110 (hardcover)
  • 1580932118 (hardcover)
LCCN
2008004091
OCLC
  • ocn191732544
  • SCSB-5434066
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries