Paul Chalfin
Paul Chalfin (born November 2, 1874 in New York City , † February 15, 1959 in Upper Montclair (New Jersey) ) was an American interior designer .
The son of Colonel Samuel Fletcher Chalfin and Jane Voorhees (Connolly) Chalfin dropped out of Harvard University after two years and enrolled in the Art Students League of New York to take painting lessons. In 1898 he was admitted to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris , where he studied with the genre painter Jean-Léon Gérôme . After two years, Chalfin returned to the USA. In 1903 Chalfin worked as a curator for Chinese and Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. In 1905 he received a three-year Lazarus Scholarship for Italy.
From 1910 Chalfin worked with the architect F. Burrall Hoffman on the Villa Vizcaya of the industrial magnate James Deering . Little is known about Chalfin's later career. In 1956 he was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Decorators .
Individual evidence
- ^ Witold Rybczynski, Laurie Olin, Steven Brooke: Vizcaya. To American Villa and Its Makers . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2006.
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| SURNAME | Chalfin, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American interior designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 15, 1959 |
| Place of death | Upper Montclair, New Jersey |