Signed My Time at Tiffany's by Gene Moore and Jay Hyams, 1st Edition 1990 Retrospective Photography and Styling Book

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Gene Moore has been creating the fanciful and artistically brilliant windows at Tiffany's for 35 years. … Read more From inside dust jacket:
Gene Moore has been creating the fanciful and artistically brilliant windows at Tiffany's for 35 years. His name has become synonymous with high artistic style, and at the age of 80 he remains one of the most respected names in the United States in Modern design. My Time at Tiffany's is both a pictorial tribute to his life's work and a historical portrait of the evolution of fashion and art in New York and the United States.
The famous windows at Tiffany's are only the most obvious of Mr. Moore's contributions to the world of art and design, and his story begins long before his time at Tiffany's. Moore was one of a handful of designers who changed forever the style and concept of window display. He personally remade the world of mannequins, changing store windows from areas in which to pile merchandise to exciting views of the world of fashion. And Moore's work goes on from there to include work for restaurants, museums, ballet and theatrical stages, airline interiors, and many other parts of our world. It was Moore who first used tiny white lights on Christmas trees, Moore who first used votive candles on restaurant tables, Moore who first made mannequins interact, and Moore, who, more than any other designer, first realized that a store's windows are its image and that that image can be brought to life and given a memorable personality.
My Time at Tiffany's follows Moore's career and life, from his birth in the South to his arrival in New York, from his early struggles to his increasingly creative involvement with 1. Miller, Bergdorf Goodman, Bonwit Teller, and finally Tiffany's. The book is illustrated with photographs of windows that made him famous along with examples of his other work, including portraits of the leading ballet artists of this century, popular models, actors and actresses--and even a few revealing glimpses of the window trimmer's secret world.
From the beginning, Moore has been involved intimately in the city of New York and its artists. His windows have reflected events in the city and have displayed the works of hundreds of artists, many of whom--Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg--have gone on to become famous. My Time at Tiffany's is thus a portrait of the changing city and its art, from subway strikes and water shortages to Christmas windows that delight, Valentine's Day windows that offer sweet reminders, and unanticipated, unprecedented, and wonderfully thrilling windows that make passersby slow down, then pause, and then laugh with delight or grin with shared understanding. No other designer in this postwar era, in any other medium, has known as surely as Moore how to speak--always with polite elegance--of the realities of modern life.

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12 1/4" tall
9 1/4" wide
1" deep
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