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Author: (Bachrach, Louis Fabian) (photographer)
Title: Home of Charles Burnham Squier. 521 Park Avenue New York City.
Publication: (1920s ?).
Price: Sold
Reference: 10048
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Large 4to. Manuscript title leaf, 12 photogravure plates each measuring 180 x 230mm (signed "Bachrach" at their lower right-hand corners), incorporated in larger sheets of paper measuring approx 340 x 360mm. Contemporary full brown morocco, gilt (binding signed by Ames & Rollinson, New York). Four other actual mounted photographs loosely inserted.
A handsomely presented album of photogravure views illustrating the interior of Charles B.Squier’s substantial apartment at 521 Park Avenue, New York, a then fashionable apartment building constructed to designs by the architect William A.Boring in 1911 (Boring was later to become head of the School of Architecture at Columbia University). They provide images of all the principal rooms in the apartment - the drawing room was hung with gilt-framed landscape paintings, presumably by European artists of the later eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries - and of their furnishings, including a large display case containing Squier’s extensive collection of glass paperweights. Squier was heir to a New Jersey zinc mining fortune, which doubtless financed both the apartment and the paperweight collection, and he commissioned this record of his apartment from the New York society photographer Louis Fabian Bachrach, whose signature appears on each of the images.