Description
The career of Frances Adler Elkins (1888-1953), sister of renowned Chicago architect David Adler, spanned more than three decades.
An avant-garde decorator and arbiter of style, Elkins used to be celebrated for inspired designs that integrated quite a lot of periods and styles, from country French to chinoiserie to art deco, and featured furnishings by such brand new designers as Jean-Michel Frank and Alberto Giacometti. This book offers a tour of twenty-nine luxurious Elkins interiors, including a few collaborations with Adler. Elkins’s illustrious clientele extended from coast to coast and as a ways afield as Hawaii, including many private and public commissions in northern and southern California and the Midwest. Generously illustrated with 160 stunning color photographs in addition to black-and-white photos, the book features a list of decided on clients and a visible inventory of decided on furniture, fabrics, wallpapers, and accessories favored by Elkins. 100 color and 60 b/w illustrations