beaux arts

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Lessard grew up at what she knew as the Place, a magnificent Long Island estate designed by her great-grandfather, the Beaux-Arts architect Stanford White: “The harmony and symmetry,” she writes, “created an atmosphere of providential protection.”

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A brief stint as an apprentice architect taught him to draw in the Beaux-Arts mode but he quickly moved beyond this, as we see from the breathtaking drawing that opens the show.

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A chance meeting with Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and lauded for his designs for the Vanderbilt family, led Roth to Hunt’s firm in New York and then to that of the architect Ogden Codman Jr., a tastemaking friend of Edith Wharton.

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I left the bus in front of the aquarium, L’Institut Océanographique de Monaco, a stunning 1910 beaux-arts limestone mansion perched on a cliff.

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The old museum is housed in a stately yet crumbling Beaux-Arts building in Tahrir Square that dates from 1902, while the GEM, sprawling over the Giza Plateau, is sleek and ultramodern, and sometimes reminiscent of an Emirati airport with its high-end gift shop and food court.

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