The late great Charles Schwab mansion

Article published in the New York Times on July 8th 2010 
by Christopher Gray


ALMOST everyone in New York knows the Frick Collection, at Fifth Avenue and 70th Street, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, at Fifth and 91st, the pair of stupendous mansions built by the steel titans Henry Clay Frick and Andrew Carnegie. But their architectural majesty was only two-thirds of a ferric triad, the last the house of Charles M. Schwab, the Carnegie protégé who became the head of United States Steel and then Bethlehem Steel.

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Paris – Angers, 2008

The meetings are on the planned 2-years intervals, this year in France, with visits guided by Pascal Filâtre (RMHF 2004) and by Hubert du Pontavice, regional Delegué of the Vieilles Maisons Francaises, centering on the City of Angers and including the Abbey of Toussaint with its David d’Angers Gallery, then, in Paris, visits including the newly restored Museum of Decorative Arts with the architects Daniel Kahane and Diego Rodriguez (RMHF 2008).