"I recommend to every Architect, designer and those who have a
passion for New York to own this magnificent book...there is no
better on the extraordinary Beaux Arts of New York." -Lemeau,
Decorator's Insider "This great, beautiful, glossy, polychromatic
slab of a book more than does justice to an epic period in
architecture when some of the world's most luscious buildings were
designed for some of the most unpleasant people in American
history." - Timothy Brittain-Catlin, World of Interiors "New York
would be little more than another faceless glass-and-steel city
were it not for its Gilded Age buildings and institutions... An
American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City,
written by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen,
is a gilded embrace of this legacy."- The Critic The Gilded Age,
also referred to as the American Renaissance, is an era associated
with unparalleled growth, technological advancement, prosperity,
and cultural change. Spanning from the 1870s to the 1930s, it marks
the first time that the titans of American finance and industry had
more wealth than their European counterparts. As the centre of this
dynamic economy, New York City attracted immigrant workers and
millionaires alike. It was not enough for the self-appointed elite
to just build their own grand chateaux and palazzos along Fifth
Avenue-collectively they dreamed of creating a new metropolis to
rival the great cultural capitals of London, Paris, and Rome. To
flaunt their newly acquired wealth they needed an architecture
dripping in embellishment and historical reference. Enter the
Beaux-Arts. This book, which has been painstakingly researched and
beautifully photographed over many years, takes a close look at 20
of the finest examples of Beaux-Arts architecture in New York City.
While showing public exteriors, its focus is on the lavish
interiors that are associated with the opulence of the Gilded
Age-often providing a glimpse inside buildings not otherwise
viewable to the public. While some of the buildings and monuments
featured are world-renowned landmarks recognisable and accessible
to all, others are obscure buildings that history has forgotten.
Set amid the magnificent achievements of an American Renaissance,
this book recounts not only the fascinating stories of some of New
York's most famous and significant Beaux-Arts landmarks, it also
recalls the lives of those who commissioned, designed, and built
them. These are some of the most acclaimed architects, artists, and
artisans of the day-Daniel Chester French, Cass Gilbert, Charles
McKim, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Stanford
White-and some of the most prominent millionaires in American
history-Henry Clay Frick, Jay Gould, Otto Kahn, J.P. Morgan, John
D. Rockefeller, and the ubiquitous Astor and Vanderbilt families.
Names that-as Julian Fellowes (the acclaimed director of Downton
Abbey) notes in the Foreword-"still reek of money." Excerpt from
the Introduction
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