The Wolfsonian collection contains artifacts primarily of North American and European origin, dating from 1885–1945. It comprises a variety of media: furniture; industrial-design objects; glass, ceramics, and metalwork; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; including architectural drawings, posters, and fine art prints; paintings; textiles; and medals. The nations most comprehensively represented are the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Russia/Soviet Union. The objects are interpreted to explore key issues in design history - the way design has both altered and been altered by cultural change, industrial innovation, and strategies of persuasion.
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THE JOHN AND DREW EBERSON ARCHITECTURAL RECORDS ARCHIVE
The John and Drew Eberson Architectural Records Archive is one of The Wolfsonian’s major architectural holdings, documenting the work of the firm John and Drew Eberson, Architects from 1909 through 1988. John Eberson is known as the creator of the "atmospheric" style movie palaces and credited with designing almost 100 such theaters throughout the country in the 1920s. The firm then transitioned to designing theaters in the Art Deco style. The atmospheric style is characterized by bringing an opulent and exotic "outdoors" inside to create romanticized indoor "courtyards" bordered by villas and tropical foliage, topped with ceilings painted to look like the nighttime sky, complete with stars and clouds. As of May of 2008 there were twenty-eight Eberson theaters on the National Register of Historic Places. The Archive includes records for more than 420 projects and totals more than 7,600 items. The Wolfsonian's work arranging and processing the Archive was supported by major grants from the Getty Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
FEATURED
OBJECT:
Photograph, Riviera Theatre interior
Omaha, Nebraska, 1925-28
John
Eberson (American, b. Romania, 1875-1954) Architect
Photograph by
Rinehart-Marsden, Omaha, Nebraska
The Wolfsonian–FIU, The Mitchell
Wolfson, Jr. Collection
P040801.
