My love of Italian architecture came about while I was a student in Urbino and then Florence. A displaced New Yorker, I succumbed to the daily euphoria induced by my walk from my apartment to the Scuola Lorenzo de Medici. Every wall, doorway and piazza vied for my attention with outdoor statuary, Della Robbia roundels, frescoes and inlays.
Italy, theater, Bibiena, perspective, drawings, baroque, Renaissance |
|
|
Among the most important 20th-century architectural drawings in Cooper-Hewitt’s collection, this work presents four sketches for a suburban Paris two-family villa, commissioned by the modern art collectors, Michael and Sarah Stein (brother and sister-in-law of Gertrude Stein), and their close friend Gabrielle de Monzie. While De Monzie wasn’t especially interested in architecture, she still paid for Michael Stein’s experimental adventure in an avant-garde home.
Villa Stein-de Monzie, Gabrielle de Monzie, Michael Stein, Sarah Stein, Gertrude Stein, Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau, 1925 Paris Exposition, Le Corbusier, Architecture, Museum of Modern Art, Calvin S. Hathaway, The Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration, La Terraces, elevations, drawings, paris |
|
|
jewelry, drawings, Italy, Italian, permanent collection, 18th century, 19th century |
 |
|
cats, decorative arts, prints, drawings |
 |
|
drawings, Frederick Crace, england, 19th century, decorative arts |
 |
|
drawings, American, Winslow Homer, Frederic Edwin Church, Samuel Colman, Robert F. Blum |
 |
|
drawings, prints, theater, theatrical design, costume, permanent collection |
 |
|
jewelry, 19th century, drawings |
 |
|
drawings, paintings, oil paintings, watercolor |
 |
|
drawings, permanent collection, watercolor |
 |
|
