Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom by Dehan, Amy M.

Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom

A fascinating, profusely illustrated, study of the impact of Austrian-born architect and designer Joseph Urban (1872-1933), on...
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Author: Amy M. Dehan
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Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom by Dehan, Amy M.

Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom

$113.13

Joseph Urban: Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom

$113.13
Author: Amy M. Dehan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A fascinating, profusely illustrated, study of the impact of Austrian-born architect and designer Joseph Urban (1872-1933), on the development and acceptance of American Modernism through the story of one of his last commissions.

Designed in 1929 and completed in 1930, this rare, bespoke bedroom, created for the seventeen-year-old Elaine Wormser, embodies the skillful blend of Viennese artistic influences, sleek modern finishes, daring color and pattern that marked all of the artist's greatest achievements. The interior, whose elements are held by the Cincinnati Art Museum, has never been fully researched, published or displayed before now. Five essays, accompanied by nearly 90 full-color illustrations, unlock the narratives and significance of this important historic interior.

Joseph Urban arrived in Boston in 1911; he lived and worked in the United States for the rest of his life. Over the next twenty-two years, he would become one of the nation's most important and celebrated designers, at the forefront of American modernism, doing as much as anyone to shape its distinctive face. His iconic designs include the Tulip Room, Central Park Casino, New York, 1929; Park Avenue Restaurant, 128 East 58th Street, New York, 1931; and the bedroom for Nedenia Hutton, daughter of E. F. Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post, Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach, Florida, 1926. When Urban arrived in the United States, the new architecture and design were just beginning to make their appearance; by the time he died in 1933, they were already starting to assert their dominance



Author: Amy M. Dehan
Publisher: Giles
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.30h x 10.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781911282563

About the Author
Amy Miller Dehan is the Curator of Decorative Arts and Design. Dehan joined the Cincinnati Art Museum in 2001. She was part of the curatorial team that developed The Cincinnati Wing: The Story of Art in the Queen City and has worked on various installations of the Museum's American and European art collections. Her writing on decorative arts and design has appeared in catalogues including Cincinnati Silver: 1788-1940; Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art Glass; and Cincinnati Art Carved Furniture and Interiors. She has also been published in The Magazine ANTIQUES, Silver Magazine, Gastronomica, and other periodicals. Dehan has curated multiple exhibitions for the Cincinnati Art Museum, including Cincinnati Silver (2014); The Art of Sound: Four Centuries of Musical Instruments (2012); Going Dutch: Contemporary Design from Local Collections and the Cincinnati Art Museum (2011); Force of Nature: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection (2010); and Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection (2009). Dehan earned her B.A. from the College of William and Mary and her M.A. from the University of South Carolina. She is an alumnus of The Winterthur Fall Institute and the Attingham Summer School. She held internships and fellowships at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and has worked in the field of decorative arts for over ten years. Elizabeth MCGoey, Ph.D. is the Ann S. and Samuel M. Mencoff Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, Art Institute of Chicago. Christopher Long is Martin S. Kermacy Centennial Professor, American Collegiate Schools of Architecture Distinguished Professor and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas at Austin.

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