INSPIRATIONS
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Architecture and Interior Design
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The Peristyle
Toledo Museum of Art |
The Cleveland
Orchestra Stage
Severance Hall |
Rheinberger Chamber
Music Stage
Severance Hall |
Elsie de Wolfe's and
Elizabeth Marbury's Villa Trianon at Versailles |
La Quintandinha
Dorothy Draper
Brazil |
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A Victorian Style House
Italy |
Master Bedroom Ceiling
San Simeon
California
Julia Morgan Architect |
Scalinata della Trinità
dei Monti
Piazza di Spagna
Rome |
French Modern Sitting Room
Thorne Room
courtesy The Chicago
Institute of Art |
California Modern Foyer
Thorne Room
courtesy The Chicago
Institute of Art |
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English Modernist Salon
Thorne Room
courtesy The Chicago
Institute of Art |
English Modernist Salon
Thorne Room
courtesy The Chicago
Institute of Art
(photo as shown at The World's Fair of 1940 - New York)
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California Spanish Room
Thorne Room
courtesy The Chicago
Institute of Art |
English Drawing Room
Thorne Room
courtesy The Chicago
Institute of Art |
Modernist Dining Room
Thorne Room
courtesy The Phoenix Art Museum
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Living Room, The Cliff
May House, Los Angeles
Demolished |
Fallingwater
Bear Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright |
Bridge Cottage, 1902
White Lake, Michigan
Frank Lloyd Wright
courtesy Kate Lunsford |
Neo-Classic House
Belgium
Marc Corbiau |
Interior of Glass House
New Canaan
Philip Johnson |
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The Barcelona Pavilion,
Mies van der Rohe
Spain
Restoration |
Tugendhat House
Entrance Hall
Mies van der Rohe
Original Photograph |
Tugendhat House
Living Room/Dining Room
Mies van der Rohe
Restoration |
Tugendhat House
Living Room
Mies van der Rohe
Restoration |
The Farnsworth House
Suburban Chicago
Mies der van Rohe
Restoration |
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Living Room, La Fiorentina
Mary Wells
Italy
Billy Baldwin, Designer |
Living Room
Kitty Miller
New York
Billy Baldwin, Designer |
Hambleden, Salon
England
John Fowler, Designer |
Carolina Herrera's Salon
Private Collection |
Living Room,
Robert Stanton
Tiburon, California |
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Bowood
Shaker Heights
Clarence Mack
courtesy Cleveland Public
Library Archives |
Bowood Gallery and Entranc, Shaker
Heights
Clarence Mack
courtesy Cleveland Public
Library Archives |
Bowood Entrance Hall
Shaker Heights
Clarence Mack
courtesy Cleveland Public
Library Archives |
Kingwood, Mansfield, Ohio
Drawing Room
Clarence Mack
courtesy Cleveland Public
Library Archives |
Lake Avenue Residence
Lakewood Ohio
Clarence Mack
courtesy Cleveland Public
Library Archives |
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Residence on El Vedado
Palm Beach
Clarence Mack
courtesy Cleveland Public
Library Archives |
Residence in Parc Monceau
Palm Beach
Clarence Mack
courtesy
Cleveland Public
Library Archives |
Residence in Estate Section
Palm Beach
Clarence Mack
courtesy Cleveland Public
Library Archives
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Thierry Despont
in Palm Beach |
Entrance Court |
Sculpture and Pool seen
from northeast |
Sculpture and pool deck seen from
southeast |
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Ray W. Clarke, Ltd. Model Collection
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Ca d’Oro, Venice
Model by Timothy Richards
Collection of the Designer |
The Ca d'Oro,
Grand Canal, Venice
Restored |
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Dorchcester Lobby,
London
Model by Timothy Richards
Collection of the Designer
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Dorchester Hotel Lobby,
London |
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Bok Tower Model,
Lake Wales, Florida |
Bok Tower,
Lake Wales, Florida |
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Favorite Stage Sets
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Lost Horizon,
1937
Interior Set of Shangri-La
Stephen Goodson, Designer |
Lost Horizon, 1937
Interior Set of Shangri-La
Stephen Goodson, Designer |
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Decorative Arts
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Klismos (Chair)
T.H. Robsjohn - Gibbings |
Leopard Chest
Piero Fornisetti |
Jacques Emile Ruhlmann
Drawing for L'Hotel du
Collectionneur
Pouchoir print |
Jean Dupas
Women with Birds
Painting for over Mantel
L'Hotel du Collectioneur
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Sterling Silver Tea Service by Louis
Rorimer, Cleveland
courtesy Cleveland
Museum of Art
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People
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Diana Vreeland
The World's Greatest Fashion Editor and Authority |
Gloria Vanderbilt
(Mrs. Wyatt Emory Cooper)
America's Most Famous Socialite |
Edith Head, Hollywood's Most Instantly
Recognizable Costume Designer |
Elsa Maxwell, World's Most Renowned
Hostess |
Babe Paley, World's Best Dressed Woman
Mother was a Cleveland Socialite
Jewels by Fulco Verdura |
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Simone Signoret
French Intellectual &
Actress of La Comedie
Francaise
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Simone Signoret
Fading enchantress in
Room at The Top |
Patricia Neal
American Actress
Patricia Neal Foundation
for Stroke |
Hermione Gingold |
Dorothy Draper
American Decoratrix Extraordinaire
Daughter Lives in Cleveland |
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| Mrs. Henry Parish II, (Sister) Reigning
Queen of Interior Decoration for Four Decades |
Iris Apfel, The Patroness
of Couture
Her Clothes and Her Book:
Rare Bird of Fashion
The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Norton Museum of Art | Andrée Putnam
French monarch of
Interior Design
Trained as Musician
by Francis Poulenc | T.H. Robsjohn - Gibbings
Classicism's Most Important Exponent | Gibby With a Retrospective
of his Famous Chairs
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The Author of the International Style at its Purest |
William (Billy) Baldwin
Informality in Design and
The Etagere were his Inventions | William Haines
Actor turned Decorator
to the Stars | Clarence Mack, Developer cum Architect,
Fame in Cleveland, Shaker Heights
and Palm Beach | Jackie Kennedy
America's Most Elegant
First Lady
Photo by Slim Aarons |
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Louise Nevelson
America's Greatest Sculptress
From Kiev to New York
Photograph: Richard
Avedon |
Jane A. Daroff
Mentor to Many
PFLAG, HRC and CWRU |
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Brad Hollibaugh
Owner of the World's Most Powerful Physique
photographs
by M. J. Frauenheim |
Brad Hollibaugh
Owner of the World's Most Powerful Physique
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Mark C. Austin
Renowned Specialist in
Pipe Organ Restoration
Choral Director and
Vocalist |
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Christian Dior
The World's Most Recognizable Couturier |
Pierre Balmain
The Couturier who
recalled ancient Greece
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Suzanne L. Bruner, Artist
Whose work has provided
me with over 40 years
of joy! |
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Music
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Maurice Ravel
Composer |
Maurice Ravel, Composer
Bust by Leon Leyritz
photo courtesy The Paris
Opera House |
George Szell
Cleveland Orchestra Conductor
For Connoisseurs only
Musical Director
Ultimate Technicality
1946-1970 |
Lorin Maazel
Cleveland Orchestra
Musical Director
Broad and Stylish
1972-1982 |
Martha J. Joseph
First Lady of Music
of Cleveland for
Six Decades
Here a Young Woman |
Art
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An Architect's Dream
Thomas Cole
courtesy The Toledo Museum of Art
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Picasso
Woman with a Crow
courtesy The Toledo Museum of Art |
The Cocktail Party
John Koch
courtesy New York Historical
Society |
Accent Grave
Franz Kline
courtesy Cleveland Museum of
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Isle of The Dead
Arnold Böcklin |
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An Evening in Antiquity
Alphonse Osbert |
Paul Travis, The Athlete
Private
Collection |
Clarence Carter, Olive Trees, Capri,
courtesy Ray W. Clarke Collection
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Milly Possoz
Les Tulipes
courtesy Ray W. Clarke Collection
image courtesy Richard Reed Armstrong Fine Art |
Kalman Kubinyi, Saraband
courtesy
Ray W. Clarke Collection |
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Edris Eckhardt
Blue Reverie, Fused Glas with Gold Laminate
Private
Collection |
Jack Tworkov
Black and White Lithograph
courtesy Ray W. Clarke Collection
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Life in the sixties.
Elegance, a final moment of the real thing!
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Spiritual Aspirations
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Takstang Monastery, Bhutan
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Learned Words
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A Message from
Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard University
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Thorne Room Photographs Courtesy The Chicago Institute
of Art
The Peristyle Photograph Courtesy The Toledo Museum of Art
Severence Hall Photographs Courtesty The Cleveland Orchestra
Cliff May House Collection of the Designer
Brad Hollibaugh Courtesy Brad J. Hollibaugh, Atlas Men, Collection of
the Designer |
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