Frances Elkins

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Interior Design

By Stephen M. Salny

Summary

Frances Elkins was an avant-garde interior decorator whose career spanned over three decades. Sister of architect David Adler, she was celebrated for blending diverse styles such as country French, chinoiserie, and art deco, while incorporating modern furnishings by designers like Jean-Michel Frank and Alberto Giacometti. This book offers a tour of twenty-nine luxurious Elkins interiors, showcasing her work with notable clients across the US including California and Hawaii. It features 160 colour photographs alongside black-and-white images, and includes inventories of furniture, fabrics, wallpapers, and accessories she favoured.
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Ideal for enthusiasts of interior design, art deco, and historical home decoration, as well as professionals and aficionados interested in the evolution of modern American taste through the work of a pioneering female decorator.

The career of Frances Adler Elkins (1888-1953), sister of renowned Chicago architect David Adler, spanned more than three decades.

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The career of Frances Adler Elkins (1888-1953), sister of renowned Chicago architect David Adler, spanned more than three decades. An avant-garde decorator and arbiter of taste, Elkins was celebrated for inspired designs that integrated various periods and styles, from country French to chinoiserie to art deco, and featured furnishings by such modern designers as Jean-Michel Frank and Alberto Giacometti.

Frances Elkins offers a tour of twenty-nine luxurious Elkins interiors, including several collaborations with Adler. Elkins's illustrious clientele extended from coast to coast and as far afield as Hawaii, including many private and public commissions in northern and southern California and the Midwest.

Generously illustrated with 160 stunning colour photographs as well as black-and-white photos, the book includes a list of selected clients and a visual inventory of selected furniture, fabrics, wallpapers, and accessories favoured by Elkins.

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"Lavishly illustrated... Her subtle genius is captured by numerous colour photos," praises World of Interiors. The Washington Post notes how the author portrays Elkins as an American conduit for European avant-gardism, blending traditional tastes with modern sensibilities. The Los Angeles Times says "any design devotee would enjoy this book," while Choice calls it "a valuable insight into the life and works of a legendary interior decorator... Highly recommended." California Bookwatch terms it "a splendid, authoritative treatment," and Clem Labine's Period Homes finds it "entertaining as well as meticulously researched."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393731460

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 17 July 2005

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Illustration: 100 color and 60 b/w illustrations

Contributors:

Foreword by Albert Hadley

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 241.0mm

Height: 312.0mm

Weight: 1516g

Pages: 192

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Home & Garden Non-Fiction Stephen M. Salny

About the Author

Stephen M. Salny, the author of Frances Elkins: Interior Design, lives in Baltimore, Maryland.