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Modern Gothic : the inventive furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82

Title

Modern Gothic : the inventive furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82 / editors Medill Higgins Harvey, Barbara Veith ; authors Max Donnelly, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Medill Higgins Harvey, Melitta Jonas, Barbara Veith.

Publication

Brooklyn, NY : Brooklyn Museum, 2021.
©2021

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Description

208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 29 cm

Summary

"Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82 traces the timeless American immigrant success story of Anton Kimbel and Joseph Cabus. The enterprising New York City design team pioneered an inventive take on Modern Gothic furniture of near-infinite variety, for a broad range of customers, and defined a significant aesthetic in the United States. The Brooklyn Museum, which retains the largest institutional holdings of Kimbel and Cabus's work, is the first to tell their story with new scholarship and fresh insight into this important yet little-explored partnership. A fully illustrated catalogue co-published with Hirmer Press will accompany the exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum that will be on view July 2, 2021-February 13, 2022 . The publication is co-authored by Barbara Veith, Guest Curator, Brooklyn Museum, and Medill Higgins Harvey, Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts and Manager, Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, with additional contributions by Max Donnelly, Curator of Nineteenth-Century Furniture, Victoria and Albert Museum; Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art; and Dr. Melitta Jonas, Kunsthistorikerin, Berlin"--

Uniform Title

Modern Gothic (Brooklyn Museum)

Subject

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82 organized by the Brooklyn Museum and held July 2, 2021-February 13, 2022"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

"Rich and Tasteful Enough": Kimbel and Cabus in the New York Furniture Trade / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- Poetic and Practical: Gothic for the Modern Home / Max Donnelly -- The Kimbel Dynasty: A Fine Tradition of Cabinetmakers / Dr. Melitta Jonas -- Kimbel and Cabus: Cabinetmakers and Decorators / Medill Higgins Harvey & Barbara Veith.

Call Number

JQF 21-1229

ISBN

9783777436586
3777436585

LCCN

2021004465

OCLC

1245249101

Title

Publisher

Brooklyn, NY : Brooklyn Museum, 2021.

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Harvey, Medill Higgins, editor.

Veith, Barbara, editor.

Container of (work): Donnelly, Max. Poetic and practical.

Container of (work): Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney. Rich and tasteful enough.

Container of (work): Harvey, Medill Higgins. Kimbel and Cabus.

Container of (work): Jonas, Melitta. Kimbel dynasty.

Brooklyn Museum, organizer, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-1229

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