Dining Room, Bedrooms,Colony Club, New York, New York (1905)
Artist/Designer:
Elsie De Wolfe
Project Location:
New York, United States
Figure 1: Private dining room, The Colony Club, Madison Avenue, New York City. Published in The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe, 1914.
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Photographer: The Great Lady Decorators by Adam Lewis, pages 24-25 )
Figure 2: Private dining room, The Colony Club, Madison Avenue, New York City. Published in The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe, 1914.
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Photographer: The Great Lady Decorators by Adam Lewis, page 25 )
Figure 3: Bedroom with Louis XVI-style-furnishings, The Colony Club, Madison Avenue, New York City. Published in The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe, 1914.
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Photographer: The Great Lady Decorators by Adam Lewis, page 26 )
Figure 4: A guest room at The Colony Club, Madison Avenue, New York City. Published in The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe, 1914.
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Photographer: The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe )
Figure 5: Plans Colony Club 1905 McKim, Meade and White, 120 Madison Ave., NYC, NY
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Figure 6: Exterior Photo Colony Club 1907
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Figure 7: Lighting Fixtures, page 29, E. F. Caldwell & Co. Collection at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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Style/Period(s):
Classical Revival
Primary Material(s):
No Primary Material Assigned.
Function(s):
Hospitality
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Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1900-1909, 1905
Additional Information:
Lewis, Adam. "Elsie de Wolfe." In The Great Lady Decorators: The Women Who Defined Interior Design, 1870-1955, 18-51. New York: Rizzoli, 2009.
Munhall, Edgar. "Elsie de Wolfe: The American Pioneer Who Vanquished Victorian Gloom." Architectural Digest 57, no. 1 (January 2000): 148-151, 238-239.
Sparke, Penny. Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration. New York: Acanthus Press, 2005.
Building Address: 120 Madison Avenue, NYC, NY
Significant Dates: Original Construction 1905.
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