Stanford White : decorator in opulence and dealer in antiquities / Wayne Craven.

Main entry:

Craven, Wayne.

Title & Author:

Stanford White : decorator in opulence and dealer in antiquities / Wayne Craven.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.
Stanford White as dealer in antiquities -- Dealers, agents, forgers, export laws, and Stanford White -- The William C. Whitney and Oliver Hazard Payne houses -- The Payne Whitney house -- The Mackays and Harbor Hill -- From the Poor house to the White House.

Summary:

"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 situates 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." "Based on the archives of the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library at Columbia University and the New-York Historical Society, this book recovers a neglected yet significant part of White's career, which lasted from the 1870s to his murder in 1906. White not only set the standard for twentieth-century architecture but also defined the newly emerging profession of interior design."--Jacket.

Resources:
ebrary
Table of contents

ISBN:

0231133448 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231133449 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

White, Stanford, 1853-1906.
Interior decorators United States Biography.
Antique dealers United States Biography.
Décorateurs d'intérieurs États-Unis Biographies.
Antiquaires États-Unis Biographies.
Antique dealers
Interior decorators
United States

Form/genre:

Biography.
Biographies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 242537
Call No.: BIB 172340
Status: Available

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