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Russel Wright American Modern pottery. American Modern was a distinct American design aesthetic formed in the period between 1925 and World War II.American Modern was created by a pioneering group of designers, architects and artists, among them were Norman Bel Geddes, Donald Deskey, Henry Dreyfuss, Paul T. Frankl, William Lescaze, Raymond Loewy, Gilbert Rohde, Eliel Saarinen, Walter Dorwin ...
He went to school with Angelina Jolie and Lenny Kravitz and yesterday, Mike Amiri brought the glamour of Hollywood to the legendary Left Bank of Paris.
The Open Door Policy (Chinese: 門戶開放政策) is the United States diplomatic policy established in the late 19th and early 20th century that called for a system of equal trade and investment and to guarantee the territorial integrity of Qing China. The policy was created in U.S. Secretary of State John Hay 's Open Door Note, dated ...
Andrew Carnegie (English: / kɑːrˈnɛɡi / kar-NEG-ee, Scots: [kɑrˈnɛːɡi]; [ 2 ][ 3 ][ note 1 ] November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans in history.
Tiffany & Company, Union Square, Manhattan, storage area with porcelain, c. 1887 Tiffany & Co. was founded in 1837 by Charles Lewis Tiffany and John B. Young, [15] in New York City, as a "stationery and fancy goods emporium", with the help of Charles Tiffany's father, who financed the store for only $1,000 with profits from a cotton mill. [16]
Fashion Designer. Suit by Pauline Trigère, hat by Hattie Carnegie, 1948. Pauline Trigère (November 4, 1908 – February 13, 2002) was a Franco-American couturière. She was famous in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. [1] She designed novelties such as the jumpsuit, the sleeveless coat, the reversible cape and the embroidered sheer ...
Years active. 1966–present. Stephen Burrows (born September 15, 1943) is an American fashion designer based in New York City. [1][2] Burrows studied at Fashion Institute of Technology, then began work in the New York City's Garment Center, alternately managing his own businesses and working closely with luxury department store Henri Bendel ...
c.1910s–1950s. Location. Global. Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit.'Decorative Arts'), [ 1 ] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), [ 2 ] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.