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Elizabeth Gordon (editor)

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to an American audience. She spent five years researching the subject, including 16 months in Japan. The Shibui special issue (August 1960) "caused a sensation".
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modern architecture and associated it with totalitarianism and communism. For this she earned a personal letter of approval from
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magazine from 1941 to 1964. She was remembered as "a missionary of taste to the American homemaker".
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She was married to Carl Norcross, "an authority on town planning." The couple's 1941 residence in
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In her well-known 1953 essay, "The Threat to the Next America", she criticized
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Gordon, Elizabeth (April 1953), "The Threat to the Next America",
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In 1960, she introduced the Japanese aesthetic concept of
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Index

House Beautiful
International Style
Frank Lloyd Wright
shibui
Dobbs Ferry, New York
Iovine, Julie V.
"Elizabeth Gordon, 94, Dies; Was House Beautiful Editor"
"Elizabeth Gordon's International Style"
"How Curators Found a Ghostly Image Lurking Beneath Layers of Lacquer"
"A Machine for Climate: The House Beautiful/AIA Climate Control Project, 1949–1952"
"Wolfgang Langewiesche and Climate Control"
"Elizabeth Gordon"
"Gordon, Elizabeth [and Lt. Colonel Carl Norcross], residence"
Categories
1906 births
2000 deaths
American writers
20th-century American women writers
American editors

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