December 12, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events"Norman Bel Geddes Designs America" receives media attention Norman Bel Geddes Designs America (Abrams) is the first book to explore the entire scope of American designer, urban planner, and futurist Norman Bel Geddes’s life, career, and projects. Media outlets, including the New York Times Book Review, Fortune, the Telegraph, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Austin Chronicle, Wallpaper, and… read more
December 11, 2012, Filed Under: Research + Teaching, Theatre + Performing ArtsFellow discusses work in wartime theater collection Laurence Raw, a fellow from Başkent University in Ankara, discusses his research on actor-manager Sir Donald Wolfit’s World War II–era performances. Raw’s research, “Patriotic Shakespeare—Donald Wolfit’s Productions 1941–1953,” was funded by the Fleur Cowles Endowment.
December 10, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsSangorski and Sutcliffe: The Rolls Royce of Bookbinding Jeweled bindings, which use metalwork, jewels, ivory, and rich fabrics to decorate a book, date back at least to the Middle Ages, but the form was revived around the turn of the twentieth century by the English binders Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Francis Sangorski and George Sutcliffe met in evening bookbinding… read more
