Joseph Urban : D Giles Ltd : 9781911282563 : 01 Feb 2022 : "Austrian-born artist Joseph Urban (1872-1933) was a highly prolific designer and architect in the early twentieth century, recognized for his notable impact on shaping American modernism. He arrived in the United States just as modernist influences wereemerging in architecture and design, and over the next two decades would become one of the most significant designers working at the forefront of the new era. Urban's distinctive style-a combination of Viennese fin-de-siáecle design, cutting-edge Art Deco forms and bold color-lent itself to several high-profile projects, including set designs for the Metropolitan Opera, the Ziegfeld Follies, and Hollywood films; the building and interiors for the New School in New York; and the color direction for the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. Joseph Urban : Unlocking an Art Deco Bedroom presents an Urban-designed interior commissioned in 1929 for the teenage daughter of Chicagoans Mr. and M