Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect: Beaux-Arts to Modernism in New York

Jewel Stern and John A. Stuart

Praise for Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect:

“Authors Jewel Stern and John A. Stuart have provided a singular service with their important new book. . . . [M]eticulously researched, cogently written and lavishly illustrated. . . . [Kahn's] legacy seems all the more impressive and beautiful with this first-calss tribute written by Stern and Stuart.”—Traditional Building

Winner, Award for Architecture, 2006 New York City Book Awards

Praise for Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect:

"[A] model study of one of New York's most important commercial designers."
—The New York Times

"[C]arefully researched and produced by notable scholars. . .the first and only monograph on Kahn. . . Highly recommended."
—Choice

Overview

One of the fabled "three Napoleons" of New York (with Raymond Hood and Ralph Walker) yet almost unknown today, Ely Jacques Kahn had a nearly half-century career and some three dozen of his buildings still grace the New York cityscape. Trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he was known for his modern polychrome decoration and setback skyscrapers.

About the Author –

Jewel Stern is an artist, art historian, and independent curator. She is the author of Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design and an essayist in Craft in the Machine Age: 1920-1945.

John A. Stuart teaches at Florida International University. They live in Miami.

ISBN 0-393-73114-6