Beaux-Arts architecture was tailor made for the Gilded Age: It’s big, showy, opulent and gleaming, with many of its features carved from high-end materials like marble, limestone and granite. But how ...

An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City, written by Phillip James Dodd with photography by Jonathan Wallen, is a sumptuous book on an era – roughly from the 1870s to the ...

This combination of photos shows, from left, the Pompeian Room of the Joseph Raphael De Lamar House in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, the cover of "An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts ...

Primarily the revised and expanded papers from an international conference held at Penn's School of Design, Oct. 3-5, 2003. Chinese architecture on the eve of the Beaux-Arts / Nancy S. Steinhardt -- ...

The Beaux-Arts Style in St. Louis would not last forever, and the firm of Mauran, Russell and Garden would help usher that aging style into the decades after World War I. Later switching out Garden ...

From bungalows last month to Beaux Arts this month! Although these two styles were popular in the same period, they are literally and figuratively worlds apart in their origin and their appearance.

An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City, by Phillip James Dodd, (Images Publishing: 2021), 214 pages. Time is the one vital quality in determining whether a trend was a fad ...

PARIS — The longtime host venue of the Biennale, Grand Palais — with its hulking, column-filled stone base; glowing, larger-than-life atrium; and monumental, rounded glass-and-metal roof — is a ...