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Frances Elkins: Visionary American Designer
Frances Elkins: Visionary American Designer
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Frances Elkins was a renowned designer in the 1920s and 30s, known as the first great California designer. She collaborated with craftsmen and artists to create interiors with an international perspective and architectural sensibility. This book showcases her outstanding sense of color and gift of mixing periods and styles, with images by top photographers.
Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 28 March 2023
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Frances Elkins, hailed as the most exciting designer we have ever had by Billy Baldwin, has garnered immense reverence for her timeless, elegant, and classic decor. Ahead of her time, Elkins achieved remarkable success as a designer in the male-dominated world of the 1920s and 1930s, rivaled only by her formidable sense of style. Recognized as the first great California designer, Elkins brought an international perspective and architectural sensibility to her work. With a social circle that included prominent artists and designers such as Jean-Michel Frank, Coco Chanel, and Alberto Giacometti, Elkins traveled extensively with her brother, architect David Adler, introducing a modern European chic to her clients. She collaborated with skilled craftsmen and artists, commissioning handloomed carpets, Mexican silverware, decorative finishes, and custom furniture, which imparted her interiors with their distinctive elegance and polish.
Presenting never-before-published material, Frances Elkins showcases over sixty interiors that exemplify her exceptional sense of color and her talent for seamlessly blending periods and styles. From her early work in Pebble Beach to houses she designed alongside her brother in Chicago during the 1930s, to iconic hotel commissions of the 1940s, including the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu, to midcentury homes for William Paley and David O. Selznick, this volume offers a revelation and inspiration to fans of design. Accompanied by stunning images by top photographers of the day, this comprehensive volume serves as a testament to Elkins's enduring legacy in the world of interior design.
Weight: 2062g
Dimension: 241 x 315 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780847865468
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