The American Style: Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis

The American Style: Colonial Revival and the Modern Metropolis brings together extraordinary furniture, decorative objects, and photographs to survey, in New York City and beyond, the Colonial Revival movement in the realms of architecture and design. The exhibition covers the fertile period from the 1890s to the present, focusing on the years from 1900 to the 1930s, when New York City, through department stores, museums, and more, was the center for the style’s promotion nationwide. 

According to the New York Times, "one of the achievements of the illuminating exhibition is that it helps make the invisible visible."

 

A beautifully illustrated companion book, written by the  co-curators, is co-published by the Museum and the Monacelli Press.

The exhibition is co-sponsored by the Institute for Classical Architecture & Classical America. 

 

 

 

The exhibition is made possible by the generous support of

Taconic Builders

Jenny and John Paulson

Bodman Foundation New York Design Center—James P. Druckman

Benjamin Moore & Co.

The Richard H. Driehaus Charitable Trust

Gregory K. and Susan R. Palm

Victoria Baum and Hank Bjorklund

Jamie Drake

Robert A.M. Stern Architects, LLP

Elisha-Bolton Foundation

Robert G. Goelet

The Felicia Fund

Mottahedeh & Co.

Thomas A. and Georgina T. Russo

Laura Lofaro Freeman and James L. Freeman

Gil Schafer III

The Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Foundation on behalf of Lloyd P. Zuckerberg

Robert and Encarnita Quinlan

Helen Chin

EvensonBest

Lee Gelber

Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Goldfrank III

Richard H. Jenrette

Martin J. McLaughlin

Janet C. Ross

Janet Schlesinger

And other generous donors; including those who supported an event at the Museum on February 3, 2011, sponsored by the New York Design Center.

 

House Beautiful is the media sponsor of the exhibition.

 

The accompanying publication is made possible by

Gerry Charitable Trust

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Furthermore: A Program of the Kaplan Fund

New York State Council on the Arts

 

 

Featured Image: Museum of the City of New York, 1932. Photograph by Samuel H. Gottscho, The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection