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Modern Gothic, the inventive furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82, edited by Barbara Veith and Medill Higgins Harvey

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Modern Gothic, the inventive furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82, edited by Barbara Veith and Medill Higgins Harvey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Modern Gothic

Nature of contents

bibliographycatalogs

Oclc number

1245249101

Responsibility statement

edited by Barbara Veith and Medill Higgins Harvey

Sub title

the inventive furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82

Summary

"Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82 traces the timeless American immigrant success story of Anton Kimbel and Joseph Cabus. The enterprising New York City design team pioneered an inventive take on Modern Gothic furniture of near-infinite variety, for a broad range of customers, and defined a significant aesthetic in the United States. The Brooklyn Museum, which retains the largest institutional holdings of Kimbel and Cabus's work, is the first to tell their story with new scholarship and fresh insight into this important yet little-explored partnership. A fully illustrated catalogue co-published with Hirmer Press will accompany the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that will be on view July 2, 2021-February 13, 2022 . The publication is co-authored by Barbara Veith, Guest Curator, Brooklyn Museum, and Medill Higgins Harvey, Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and Manager, Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, with additional contributions by Max Donnelly, Curator of Nineteenth-Century Furniture, Victoria and Albert Museum; Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Dr. Melitta Jonas, Kunsthistorikerin, Berlin"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

"Rich and Tasteful Enough": Kimbel and Cabus in the New York Furniture Trade / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- Poetic and Practical: Gothic for the Modern Home / Max Donnelly -- The Kimbel Dynasty: A Fine Tradition of Cabinetmakers / Dr. Melitta Jonas -- Kimbel and Cabus: Cabinetmakers and Decorators / Medill Higgins Harvey & Barbara Veith

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Inventive furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82

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