Gilded Mansions
Gilded Mansions
副标题: Grand Architecture and High Society
ISBN: 9780393067545
出版社: W.W. Norton & Co.
出版年: 2008-12-17
页数: 352
定价: USD 59.95
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
The Gilded Age of America (1865-1918) saw the sudden rise of the country's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavoured to live like Europe's nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaunted their new wealth-especially where their homes were concerned. They erected French chateaux and Italian palazzi on New York's Fifth Avenue, at Newport and elsewhere. They rejected more modest American styles just as they rejected middle-class society, and for interior decoration they turned to such artisans as Tiffany, Herter Brothers and Allard's of Paris.This immensely readable, lavishly illustrated history of the opulent art and architecture of the Gilded Age presents the fascinating story of America's first millionaire society, the way they lived and partied, and the lush artistic and cultural legacy they established.