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Van Day Truex : the man who defined twentieth-century taste and style / Adam Lewis ; foreword by Albert Hadley.
LIBRA NK2004.3.T78 L49 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Adam, 1937-2020.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Truex, Van Day, -1979.
- Truex, Van Day.
- Interior decorators--United States--Biography.
- Interior decorators.
- United States.
- Parsons School of Design.
- Tiffany and Company.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 262 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking Studio, 2001.
- Summary:
- Van Day Truex is widely regarded as the father of twentieth-century American design. Under his leadership, Parsons School of Design became the foremost school for interior design and fashion in the United States and he influenced generations of students entering these fields. But his greatest legacy -- beautifully chronicled in Van Day Truex -- is his long reign as design director at Tiffany & Co., which he transformed into a model for unprecedented style and grace. Interior designers, architects, fashion devotees, and furniture designers will treasure this first-ever portrait of Truex. This magnificent volume -- illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white photographs -- is a glorious tribute to one of America's foremost designers and a fascinating biography of the man Brooke Astor called "one of the most charming men I ever knew".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-252) and index.
- "Writings by Van Day Truex": pages [253]-254.
- ISBN:
- 0670030244
- OCLC:
- 45667685
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