Eclecticism

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Stripped Classicism

Post WWI Hitler and Mussolini government buildings great and intimidating

Beaux-Arts Style: US

"American Renaissance" • New York Public Library • New York Grand Central Station

Elsie de Wolfe

American actress, interior decorator, nominal author of the influential 1913 book The House in Good Taste. She invented ID as a profession. The press usually referred to her as Lady Mendl. loved mirrors HATED victorian introduced casual feminine Ruby ross worked for her • New York Colony Club

Reliance Building

An office building (now a hotel) In Chicago with logically ordered spaces enclosed by faceted walls of glass and a steel skeleton covered by terra-cotta panels, which made for light cladding relative to bricks. It was similar to the Monadnock Building in terms of the floor plan, but they didn't waste materials covering up parts of the steel frame on the interior.

McKim, Mead & White

Boston Public Library

Saarinen & the Tribune Tower

Chicago Tribune skyscraper competition in 1992 Gropius and Saarines didn't win but entered very modern buildings for the time

Dorothy Draper

First commercial interior designer anti minimalism revolutionized to concept of design • Professionalized decorating • Dorothy Draper & Company • 1923 • Still in business • Commercial decorator Public space -- meaning of life Use of color Greenbriar Hotel

Egyptian and Chinese Theaters

Gruman's theaters

Saarinen & Cranbrook

Invited to Cranbrook Academy of Art BEucase of his building for the Tribune tower • Head of Cranbrook • Tremendous influence • Modern vocabulary

Ocean Liners

Mauretania (1907) • Italian & French Renaissance inspired Franconia • Tudor inspired Conte di Savoia • Gallery of Colonna Palace • Statuary & frescos Help spread design ideas

Early Skyscrapers

Need for height • The Monadock Building • Early skyscraper • Really simple

European Eclecticism

Not as wide spread - more striped Classism in Nazi - Albert spear designed for Nazis Scandinavia Britain-Sir Edmund Lutyens and Norman Shaw

Beaux-Arts Style

Of or relating to an architectural style originating in France in the late 19th Century and characterized by classical forms, symmetry, rich ornamentation and a grand scale

Eleanor McMillen

Opened the first full service interior design firm French eclecticism

Ecole de Beaux Arts (French Royal Academy)

Paris Ecole • First professional school of architecture • Drawing • Rendering • Fine arts • Curriculum similar to Auburn's • Client • Criteria • Presentation • Critique

Richard Morris Hunt

Part of the City Beautiful Movement, who built city homes for the wealthy; built for the Vanderbilt's (Biltmore). Metropolitan museum of art Biltmore

Sears, Roebuck, & Co.- spread of Design

Pre built houses you can order. Now everyone could read about design and architecture in magazines Furniture & department stores Movies and movie sets

Other Interior Designer

Rose Cummings-Period elements-flamboyant and eccentric Nancy McClelland- Correct historic -created (A.S.I.D.) -European/American antiques They were opposites

Beaux-Arts Style Examples

The Opera in Paris Paris Railroad station Petit Palais

Monadock Building

early skyscaper really simple

What is eclecticism?

the process of making your own system by borrowing from two or more other systems • Imitating historic precedent • Convincing reproductions • Prevalent in America • Craved a past • Newly rich all design should imitate history total originality was laughed at mishmash past = status eclecticism lead to interior design

The Rookery

• Central court roofed over with glass • Louis Sullivan: Art Nouveau decoration • Frank Lloyd Wright: ornamental interior

Louis Sullivan

• Little originality • Stock of treatments • Gothic churches • Georgian house • Classical banks • Etc.

Ruby Ross Wood

• Newspaper reporter • Assistant to de Wolfe • The Honest House


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