Paris/New York: Design/Fashion/Culture/1925-1940

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A burst of creative energy in the fields of architecture, design, and fashion characterized the years between the two World Wars. Shaping new styles of buildings and furnishings, redefining contemporary dress, 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.No two cities engaged in a more fertile conversation than Paris and New York. The interchange between them was never simple, however, comprising in equal measure admiration and envy, respect and rivalry, as artists and designers in each city interpreted and incorporated principles of Art Deco, Cubism, the International Style, Neo-Romanticism, and Surrealism into their own practices.

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Donald Albrecht is the curator of architecture and design at the Museum of the City of New York. As an independent curator, he prepared the first retrospective of the work of Eero Saarinen and the international traveling exhibition "The Work of Charles and Ray Eames," organized by the Library of Congress and the Vitra Design Museum. He lives in New York.

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PrefaceSusan Henshaw JonesIntroductionDonald AlbrechtMetropolis in the Mirror: Planning Regional New York and ParisJean-Louis CohenModernity and Tradition in Beaux-Arts New YorkRichard Guy WilsonBeyond Metaphor: Skyscrapers Through Parisian EyesIsabelle GournayAfrica on the Spiral: Jazz in New York and Paris Between the WarsJody BlakeFashion Showdown: New York Versus Paris 19141941Phyllis MagidsonThe Longest GangplankLiora J. CobinNew York Haute CuisineAmy AzzaritoArt Deco to American Modern at the 1929 Metropolitan Museum of Art Industrial Arts ExhibitionMarilyn F. FriedmanFrom Deco to Streamlined: Donald Deskey and Raymond LoewyDavid A. HanksA Bridge to Postwar American Design: Gilbert Rohde and the 1937 Paris ExpositionPhyllis RossNeo-RomanticsKenneth E. Silver