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Finding Ella BriggsThe Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect
The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern design Ella Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the m…
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Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennesse ModernismDesign Dialog: Juden, K…
The Design Dialogue anthology is a remarkable exploration of the decisive role of Jewish patrons, professionals, architects, designers and authors in shaping modern Viennese architecture, design, and material culture. Leading cultural historians, museum curators, art historians, and architects present cutting edge research examining how famous and less known protagonists created new cultural la…
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Style and SeductionJewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle…
A recent surge of interest in Jewish patronage during the golden years of Vienna has led to the question, Would modernism in Vienna have developed in the same fashion had Jewish patrons not been involved? This book uniquely treats Jewish identification within Viennese modernism as a matter of Jews active fashioning of a new language to convey their aims of emancipation along with their claims o…
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