What did YOU do this Summer?

September 1, 2010

This summer, I have spent a lot of time reading magazines from my vintage collection.  I have put aside a number of essays that I think you will enjoy, and that we will share and expand upon through Tête-â-Tête over the next year.  Here are just a few to get the gray matter working before the school year begins.  While you are sitting on the terrace, on the beach, in a hammock, or in your favorite club chair – here are a few subjects that never grow old: beauty, romanticism, a vacation….

From an issue of House & Garden (June, 1969), we found this description of ‘vacation’ — Is yours here?  If not, send it to us at info@charlottemoss.com.

Settled into retirement at the time he wrote this article for House & Garden, in August of 1959, Joseph Hudnut was a remarkable man.  Professor Hudnut taught at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute and The University of Virginia before becoming dean of Architecture at Columbia University in the 1920′s.  In 1938, Hudnut was appointed dean of the School of Architecture at Harvard, where he was responsible for bringing Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, both important members of Germany’s Bauhaus Institute, onto the faculty there.  He is also credited with coordinating the University’s School of Architecture, School of Landscape Architecture, and School of Regional Planning into the Graduate School of Design at Harvard.