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| Title | : | Van Day Truex: The Man Who Defined Twentieth-Century Taste and Style |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (733 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0670030244 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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.". Van Day Truex is widely regarded as the father of twentieth-century American design. 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. Under his leadership, Parsons School of Design became the foremost school for interior design and fashion in the United Stat
from 1955 to 1962, arguably the store's heyday, Truex indeed had a hand in defining upper-class taste--he called it "design judgment"--or at least what went into the place settings on the dining tables of the very wealthy. Many of the designs Truex commissioned and developed for Tiffany's are still sold today as classics of the brand: the all-over wild strawberry china pattern, for example. Van Day Truex was born in Kansas, the artistically inclined son of a stern and intolerant shop manager. After the seemingly obligatory stint living with a sympathetic and worldly aunt in Wisconsin, he escaped to New York City and design school (quite against his parents' wishes), turning in a stellar performance at the institution that would become Parsons School of Design and immediately earning the notoriously hard-won approval of none other than Frank Alvah Parsons. And as director of design at Tiffany & Co. Several hundred society introductions, garden p
Adam Lewis is a graduate of the Yale School of Art and Architecture and currently teaches and practices interior design.
"The 20th c. tastemaker that the world has forgotten" according to Michele G. Sdougas. To learn from the author that even the librarians at Parsons School of Design didn't know who Truex was is a tragedy - possibly the most influential man in design for decades until his death in the late 70s! He even introduced Albert Hadley to Sister Parish. Truex was a man of refine. Completes a significant gap in American design history Lewis has obviously unearthed a treasure trove of very important material in the form of Truex' scrapbooks bringing to light an amazing tapestry of relationships bridging the worlds of fashion, product design, interior design, design education, and various cultural elites. It's refre. Is That All There Is? Lewis is to be commended for his valiant attempt at constructing a biography about one of the 20th century's most invisible design talents. Truex had a minor influence on a certain coterie of designers and products that never reached very far beyond 57th and Fifth. His circle was ric
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