Gilded New York: Design, Fashion, and Society

by Phyllis Magidson, Nina Gray, Susan Johnson

The Gilded Years of the late nineteenth century were a vital and glamorous era in New York City as families of great fortune sought to demonstrate their new position by building vast Fifth Avenue mansions filled with precious objects and important painting collections and hosting elaborate fetes and balls. This is the moment of Mrs. Astor's "Four Hundred," the rise of the Vanderbilts and Morgans, Maison Worth, Tiffany & Co., Duveen, and Allard. Concurrently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158093367X
• ISBN13: 9781580933674
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Monacelli Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 11.3"