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Author:   Jean-Louis Cohen ,  Daniella Berman ,  Jonathan Ritter
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   2
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9789004521032

ISBN 10:   9004521038
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction  Jean-Louis Cohen, Daniella Berman, and Jon Ritter Portfolio: Duke House Maps: Mansions on the Upper East Side 1 The City Beautiful, Zoning, and Preservation on New York’s Upper East Side  Jon Ritter 2 A “Gilded Stall” for the Progressive Era: Fabricating Aristocracy on Fifth Avenue  Matthew Worsnick 3 Building in “Splendid Style”: Duke House and the Development of the Cook Block  Alisa Chiles 4 Beaux-Arts Architects and Their Mansions  Isabelle Gournay 5 Mr. Duke Builds His Dream House  Mosette Broderick 6 “Good Taste” and the Making of Duke House: Francophilia, Architecture, and Adaptation  Daniella Berman 7 Commissioning Interiors: Carlhian and Duveen at Duke House  Grace Chuang 8 Dukes to Profs: Robert Venturi’s primum opus on 78th Street  Jean-Louis Cohen 9 Renovation and Illumination: Richard Kelly at the Institute  Christie Mitchell 10 Preservation on the Cook Block: An Architect’s Perspective  Theodore Prudon Select Bibliography List of Illustrations Index of Persons and Organizations Index of Buildings and Places

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Jean-Louis Cohen is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. Trained as an architect and an art historian in Paris, Cohen has curated many exhibitions and published more than forty books. Daniella Berman is an art historian and curator specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art. Trained at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts, Berman has contributed to various exhibitions and their publications including Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2022). Jon Ritter is Clinical Professor in the Department of Art History, Urban Design and Architecture at New York University. President of the Society of Architectural Historian’s New York Chapter, Ritter holds a doctorate from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.

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