Pays de rêve : the art of the Kronenhalle Zurich /
"Zurich's Kronenhalle restaurant is a living legend and 2024 marks the centenary of the likewise legendary Hulda Zumsteg (1890-1984) taking over as its landlady. For decades, the restaurant and adjacent bar have brought together the city's bohemians and the bourgeoisie. Celebrities fr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the German. |
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Zürich :
Scheidegger & Spiess,
[2024]
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| Edition: | New revised and expanded edition. |
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| Summary: | "Zurich's Kronenhalle restaurant is a living legend and 2024 marks the centenary of the likewise legendary Hulda Zumsteg (1890-1984) taking over as its landlady. For decades, the restaurant and adjacent bar have brought together the city's bohemians and the bourgeoisie. Celebrities from the worlds of art, design, literature, and stage were among the regulars. Works by artists such as Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso are naturally part of its interior. The revised new edition of this book, first published in 2019, explores the art at the Kronenhalle from various perspectives. Photographs offer atmospheric impressions of the brasserie, dining rooms, and bar, in daylight and at night. Literary texts turn paintings into protagonists. A complete catalogue and the story of its emergence and evolution place the collection in wider context and portray one of Zurich's most traditional restaurants against the backdrop of an extraordinary family and business history." --Publisher's website. Hulda Zumsteg, the "charismatic hostess not only had an eye for fine dining and dishes, she also oversaw the top-class pictures that adorned the interiors of the historical rooms. These works of French modernism, illustrated letters and keepsakes from artist friends still form the framed backdrop for our guests nestled amidst the unaltered arrangement of chairs and tables in the brasserie, the dining halls and the bar. This heritage, bequeathed to us by Hulda's son, is the topic of this book"--Excerpted from page 5: Noblesse oblige by Andreas Spillmann, President of the Hulda and Gustav Zumsteg Foundation. |
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| Item Description: | First published by Prestel Verlag, 2019. |
| Physical Description: | 127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783039422272 3039422278 |