The weather vane from the "Gingerbread Castle" on display at the Flagler Museum. Image copyright Flagler Museum.
The "Gingerbread Castle" built in Hamburg, New Jersey, was a promotion for Wheatsworth Biscuits. The company's owner saw the Metropolitan Opera's production of Hansel and Gretel and asked Urban to build a life-sized replica of his stage design. Image courtesy of J. Seffens, New York.
Joseph Urban in his office at William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures, New York, 1920. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
In 1922 Joseph Urban opened the Wiener Werkstätte Showroom in New York. This photo of his exhibition shows Gustav Kilmt's now-famous painting The Dancer. It also shows silk chairs with silver and mother of pearl by Joseph Urban, a silver and ivory coffee set by Dagobert Peche, and two bejeweled silver figures of dancers also by Peche. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the Butler Library
The Flagler Museum recreation of the showroom is a highlight of the exhibition. Copyright Flagler Museum.
Visitors tour the exhibition duing the opening reception. Copyright Flagler Museum.
Urban's drawing for the Kaiser Bridge in Vienna built for Emperor Franz Joseph II in 1898. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
Urban's watercolor rendering of Count Karl Esterhazy's country house built in 1899, east of Vienna. Image courtesy of Professor Gerhard Trumler in Vienna.
Urban's watercolor rendering of the dining room in Count Karl Esterhazy's country house built in 1899, east of Vienna. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
Urban's illustration for "The Nightingale," from the (Hans Christian) Andersen Kalender, 1911.Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
Urban's illustration "Der Kleine Rekrut" from King Klang Gloria. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
Urban's illustration "Weinachtslied" from King Klang Gloria. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
Urban's design for the Ziegfeld Theatre was financed by William Randolph Hearst and built in 1926-27 in New York. In 1944 it became an NBC studio, and in 1966 it was razed for an office building. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
Original desk and chair designed by Joseph Urban for Marjorie Merriweather Post's estate, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida. Copyright Flagler Museum.
Figural statue, ca. 1904. Designed by Joseph Urban executed by Franz Barwig. Joseph Urban Collection Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University.
Urban's design for the Paramount movie theater in the Sunrise Building in Palm Beach, Florida, 1926. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
Set model that evokes Palm Beach's Urban-designed Bath and Tennis Club for the "Umbrella Scene" in Ziegfeld's Palm Beach Girl, 1926. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the Butler Library.
Urban's etching for the ocean facade of the Bath and Tennis Club in Palm Beach, Florida, 1926. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
In 1927 the Metropolitan Opera Company held a competition to design a new Opera House. Urban proposed this exterior design where the Opera House would be the base of a grand skyscraper. The Met's board decided not to move until 1966 when it relocated to its current location at the Lincoln Center. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
Urban's proposed design for the interior of the new Metropolitan Opera House. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the Butler Library.
The facade of the New School for Social Research designed by Urban and built in New York in 1930. This was the first Modernist building in America, an astonishing achievement for a veteran of the Viennese Art Nouveau, Ziegfeld Follies, and American Art Deco. Image courtesy Columbia University, Rare Book and Manuscript LIbrary of the Butler Library.
Pair of chairs desgned by Joseph Urban executed by Sandar Jaray, 1908. Mahogany wood veneer inlaid with mother-of-pearl, brass, reproduction upholstery.
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