Modernist Design 
19 October 2003
Lawrence Emmons, Architectural panel for the Music and Arts Center, New York - Image 1 of 1
Modernist Design 
Lawrence Emmons, Architectural panel for the Music and Arts Center, New York - Image 1 of 1
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Lawrence Emmons

Architectural panel for the Music and Arts Center, New York

USA, c. 1928
cast aluminum 55 h × 40 w in (140 × 102 cm)
estimate: $12,000–15,000
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The Music and Arts Center, later known as the Barbazon Hotel for Women, was designed by the famed achitects Murgatroyd and Ogden as a home for women who moved to New York in the 1920s seeking new professional opportunities. The Barbizon served as a center for intellectural activites and supported goups such as the Arts Council of New York. The panels presented here illustrate the prevailing Art Deco aesthetic in New York at the time. Murgatroyd and Ogden designed several buildings in New York including Trump Parc Condominiums as well as the Allerton Crown Plaza in Chicago.

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