Paris-New York Design Fashion Culture

"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.

Donald Albrecht is the curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York. As an independent curator, he prepared the first retrospective of the work of Eero Saarinen and the international traveling exhibition "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames," organized by the Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum. He lives in New York.

Preface Susan
Introduction
Metropolis in the Mirror: Planning Regional New York and Paris
Modernity and Tradition in Beaux-Arts New York
Beyond Metaphor: Skyscrapers Through Parisian Eyes
Africa on the Spiral: Jazz in New York and Paris Between the Wars
Fashion Showdown: New York Versus Paris 1914-1941
The Longest Gangplank
New York Haute Cuisine
Art Deco to American Modern at the 1929 Metropolitan Museum of Art Industrial Arts Exhibition
From Deco to Streamlined
A Bridge to Postwar American Design: Gilbert Rohde and the 1937 Paris Exposition
Neo-Romantics
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Paris-New York Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940

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