Italian Art Deco
Italian Art Deco : Before the statue of David, before the Medici, Firenze was...
Read Moreby M. Curtis | May 4, 2023 | Art Deco, Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
Italian Art Deco : Before the statue of David, before the Medici, Firenze was...
Read Moreby M. Curtis | Nov 29, 2022 | Craftsman, Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
… The Arts and Crafts Tradition in a God-Centered Universe : Useful in the everyday,...
Read Moreby M. Curtis | Sep 8, 2022 | Carpenter Gothic, Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
… Grant Wood’s American Carpenter Gothic : An odd etymology: Grant Wood painted into...
Read Moreby M. Curtis | Apr 28, 2022 | Hollywood Regency, Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
. HOLLYWOOD REGENCY POOL HOUSE We might begin at the pool of Nero’s Golden House, at...
Read Moreby M. Curtis | Apr 28, 2022 | Hollywood Regency, Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
SETTING THE HOLLYWOOD REGENCY STAGE …should mention: my advance readers suggested that this...
Read Moreby M. Curtis | Mar 31, 2022 | Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
ELEGANT SMALL HOMES One hundred years ago most newspapers had a home building department...
Read Moreby M. Curtis | Mar 17, 2022 | Italianate, Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
George Washington was a demi-god, a landscape was the picture of Eden, a sunset was God’s poem, and everyman’s home was his castle. We cannot know the Picturesque Italianate, or anything worth knowing of picturesque architecture by seeing with a modern eye.
Read Moreby M. Curtis | Jan 7, 2022 | Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURAL STYLE How best to understand, how best to organize and...
Read Moreby M. Curtis | Dec 20, 2021 | Georgian, Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
We build ourselves by the book, as Williamsburg, Washington, Jefferson, and all that is Georgian is a building by the books of architecture.
Read Moreby M. Curtis | Nov 25, 2021 | Greek Revival, Taste & Connoisseurship | 0 |
To the uninitiated, the Greek and the Roman often seem one and the same, yet when dilating for more than a wink, you will notice that the toga differs from the chiton, that Venus differs from Aphrodite, that Romans spoke Latin while Greeks spoke Greek (well, in truth, more Imperial Romans spoke Greek than Latin), and that Roman architecture is in little particular, Greek.
Read Moreby Ann Sussman | Oct 21, 2021 | Taste & Connoisseurship, Mid-Century Modern | 0 |
Genetics of The Mid-Century Modern: How Modern Architecture Takes Us Up to the Sky …...
Read Moreby Milton Grenfell | Oct 21, 2021 | Taste & Connoisseurship, Jeffersonian, round and about the house | 0 |
. Architecture is My Delight . As author of the Declaration of Independence, and who as ambassador...
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