THE JEWISH MUSEUM unearthed the life and work of the architect - designer Pierre Chareau (1883 - 1950), previously known mostly for a single modernist masterpiece, the Maison de Verre in Paris, in a first American retrospective framed in a snappy design by Diller Scofidio & Renfro. (nytimes.com)
In addition to original works inspired by archival research, such as a 53 - panelled enamelled mirror painted using a reverse glass painting technique popular in the 1930s called verre églomisé, Mauss sourced objects from the Whitney's collection, the Kinsey Institute for Sex, Gender and Reproduction and the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library — uncovering the era's social, romantic and artistic relationships as he went. (frieze.com)
In 2009 Welling photographed the Maison de Verre in Paris, France. (minusspace.com)