Paris/New York: Design Fashion Culture 1925-1940 Featured image:
Radiator grille (detail) inspired by the 1925 Parisian
decorative arts exposition and featured in New York's Squibb
Building, 1930. Designed by Buchman & Kahn. Museum of the City
of New York, Ely Jacques Kahn Collection The 1920s and ‘30s
witnessed a burst of creative energy in the fields of
architecture, design, and fashion. Shaping new styles of
buildings and furnishings, redefining fashion, and giving visual
form to avant-garde performing arts, architects and designers
forged a still-influential modern aesthetic. The era’s most
creative figures rarely worked in isolation, preferring instead
to participate in international dialogues that crossed national
boundaries and linked capital cities in collaborative artistic
enterprise. Between the world wars, no two cities engaged in a
more fertile conversation than Paris, capital of 19th-century
refinement, and New York, the upstart challenger that
represented 20th-century dynamism. Paris/New York: D