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Edgar Kaufmann Jr. (stylized as Edgar Kaufmann jr.; April 9, 1910 – July 31, 1989) was an American architect, lecturer, author, and an adjunct professor of architecture and art history at Columbia University.
Edgar Jonas Kaufmann (November 1, 1885 – April 15, 1955) [1] was an American businessman and philanthropist who owned and directed Kaufmann's Department Store, in Pittsburgh. He is also known for commissioning two modern architectural masterpieces, Fallingwater , designed by Frank Lloyd Wright , and the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs ...
Edgar and Liliane Kaufmann became familiar with Wright's work through their only child, Edgar Kaufmann Jr.. [53] [a] The younger Edgar had studied in Europe under the artist Victor Hammer from 1930 to 1933. [55] [56] After returning to the United States, in September 1934, Edgar Jr. traveled to Wright's Wisconsin studio, Taliesin, [57] [58] and ...
In the 1950s Mayén met fellow art student Edgar Kaufmann Jr. with whom he would have a relationship and work partnership that would last until Kaufmann's death in 1989. [1] In 1975, Mayén built a country house for himself and Kaufmann in Garrison, New York, on the east side of the Hudson River. [8]
In 1963, Edgar Kaufmann Jr. entrusted Frank Lloyd Wright's masterwork Fallingwater to the Conservancy. The house was called the most important building of the 20th century by the American Institute of Architects. Fallingwater, maintained and preserved by the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, is open to visitors.
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
The Kaufmann Conference Center was designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto for the architecture professor Edgar Kaufmann Jr..The conference hall is on the 12th floor of 809 United Nations Plaza, originally the headquarters of the Institute of International Education (IIE), at First Avenue and 45th Street in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. [1]
Will Richard scored on a driving layup with 4.8 seconds remaining to lift No. 5 Florida — down 14 points in the the second half — past South Carolina, 70-69 on Wednesday night. Richard ...