Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York

One of the fabled "three Napoleons" of New York (with Raymond Hood and Ralph Walker) yet almost unknown today, Ely Jacques Kahn had a nearly half-century career and some three dozen of his buildings still grace the New York cityscape.
Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he was known for his modern polychrome decoration and setback skyscrapers.

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Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York

One of the fabled "three Napoleons" of New York (with Raymond Hood and Ralph Walker) yet almost unknown today, Ely Jacques Kahn had a nearly half-century career and some three dozen of his buildings still grace the New York cityscape.
Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he was known for his modern polychrome decoration and setback skyscrapers.

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Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York

Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York

Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York

Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York

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One of the fabled "three Napoleons" of New York (with Raymond Hood and Ralph Walker) yet almost unknown today, Ely Jacques Kahn had a nearly half-century career and some three dozen of his buildings still grace the New York cityscape.
Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he was known for his modern polychrome decoration and setback skyscrapers.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780393731149
Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Publication date: 07/10/2006
Product dimensions: 8.80(w) x 10.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Jewel Stern is an artist, art historian, and independent curator. She is the author of Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design and an essayist in Craft in the Machine Age: 1920-1945.

John A. Stuart teaches at Florida International University. They live in Miami.

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