Gleaming Glamour: American Art Deco Metalwork highlights in Architecture and Design One Hundred years on

Gleaming Glamour: American Art Deco Metalwork in Architecture and Design of the Roaring 20s

About the Program

In the 1920s the use of new metals, from stainless steel to other alloys, combined with traditional techniques of wrought iron to bring new design thinking to skyscrapers and the table. Sources of this design not only came from Paris, but also from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, American industry and folk traditions. Join design expert Sarah Coffin for this richly illustrated live presentation at the Dominican Academy in Manhattan, as she takes a look at examples of stunning metalwork that graced New York buildings, and domestic items that were used in both modern and traditional interiors to change the spirit of traditional pieces and experiment with new forms.

Following the talk please join us for a wine reception and see examples of metalwork gracing the beautiful 1921 building that was once the mansion of Colonel Michael Friedsam, the former president of B. Altman and Co. and one of the premier art collectors in America at that time. The six-story building fashioned in limestone was designed by Frederick Frost, with wrought ironwork by Samuel Yellin. Many of the original architectural elements, including carved marble fireplaces, stained glass windows, and ornate woodwork, are still in place today.

About the Speaker:

Sarah D. Coffin, a Decorative Arts and Design Consultant, Curator, and Lecturer is the former Senior Curator and Head of the Product Design and Decorative Arts Department of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. There she curated numerous exhibitions including the highly acclaimed The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s at Cooper Hewitt and The Cleveland Museum of Art with co-curator Stephen Harrison of Cleveland. Prior positions included Vice President at Sotheby’s as Decorative Arts Representative, and a Silver and Metalwork specialist, in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is a graduate of Yale University, with an MA in Architectural History from Columbia University,

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