DOI issue:
Nr. 159 (May 1910)
DOI article:Schuyler, Montgomery: The new wing of decorative arts of the Metropolitan Museum in New York
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0237
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• STUDIO •
VOL. XL. No. 159 Copyright, 1910, by John Lane Company MAY, 1910
THE NEW WING OF DECORATIVE tions found "an habitation enforced" in hired
ARTS OF THE METROPOLITAN quarters in Fourteenth Street. The museum has
MUSEUM IN NEW YORK not been fortunate, on the whole, in its architecture.
BY MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER The original building, of the late sixties or early
seventies, by Calvert Vaux and Wrey Mould, then
The opening of the new "wing," so rather inac- architects to the park department, included the im-
curately called, of the Metropolitan Museum pressive interior of the great hall, which was so well
marks another long stride away from the day of designed as to be in no danger of supersedure.
small things which many of us can remember, when But exteriorly the building was a failure, to be built
the little nucleus of these great and growing collec- out of sight as soon as possible. It is not a little
the main hall metropolitan museum
new wing of decorative arts of art
lv
• STUDIO •
VOL. XL. No. 159 Copyright, 1910, by John Lane Company MAY, 1910
THE NEW WING OF DECORATIVE tions found "an habitation enforced" in hired
ARTS OF THE METROPOLITAN quarters in Fourteenth Street. The museum has
MUSEUM IN NEW YORK not been fortunate, on the whole, in its architecture.
BY MONTGOMERY SCHUYLER The original building, of the late sixties or early
seventies, by Calvert Vaux and Wrey Mould, then
The opening of the new "wing," so rather inac- architects to the park department, included the im-
curately called, of the Metropolitan Museum pressive interior of the great hall, which was so well
marks another long stride away from the day of designed as to be in no danger of supersedure.
small things which many of us can remember, when But exteriorly the building was a failure, to be built
the little nucleus of these great and growing collec- out of sight as soon as possible. It is not a little
the main hall metropolitan museum
new wing of decorative arts of art
lv