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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. ( 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. ( 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. ( 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. ( 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 ( Source | Accessed : October 31, 2017 )
Figure 6: Exterior Photo Colony Club 1907 ( Source | Accessed : October 31, 2017 )
Figure 7: Lighting Fixtures, page 29, E. F. Caldwell & Co. Collection at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries ( Source | Accessed : October 31, 2017 )

Style/Period(s):
Classical Revival

Primary Material(s):
No Primary Material Assigned.

Function(s):
Hospitality

Related Website(s):

Essay on Elsie de Wolfe by Edgar Munhall, Architectural Digest | Accessed : September 20, 2017
Lighting Fixtures specified for Colony Club, images from Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Collection | Accessed : October 31, 2017
History of Colony Club Architecture and Interiors | Accessed : October 31, 2017
"A Life in Good Taste" by Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker | Accessed : September 20, 2017
"Decorators to Know: Elsie de Wolfe", 1st Dibs | Accessed : September 20, 2017
E. F. Caldwell & Co. Collection at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries | Accessed : October 31, 2017
Blog on Colony Club at 120 Madison, NYC | Accessed : October 31, 2017

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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