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Susan Weber (historian)

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where she is professor of the history of the decorative arts. BGC offers graduate degrees in history of the decorative and applied arts, cultural and design history, garden history, and landscape studies.
157:, the daughter of Iris and Murray Weber. Her father was a manufacturer of shoe accessories; her mother was a housewife. Her father was born in New York City to parents who had emigrated from 304:(Winner of the 2004 Henry Russell Hitchcock Award sponsored by the Victorian Society in America and winner of the 2005 Philip Johnson Award given by the Society of Architectural Historians) 402: 647: 505: 642: 697: 672: 330: 316: 301: 269: 285: 667: 616: 350: 652: 559: 472: 280:(Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture) . New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press 264:(Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture). New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press 169: 687: 662: 677: 657: 161:. Her mother passed on her fondness for the decorative arts. She grew up in the New York City area in a non-observant 134: 692: 244: 223: 185: 53: 637: 216: 584: 682: 632: 403:"George Soros ex-wife, Susan Weber Sells Her Legendary Design Collection to Benefit Scholarship Fund" 227: 226:. So, with $ 20 million of her husband's money, she started her own school in 1993, establishing the 192: 122: 66: 62: 424: 181: 44: 510: 462: 468: 326: 312: 297: 281: 276: 265: 526: 354: 48: 248: 177: 162: 126: 110: 376: 292: 184:
with a degree in art history. In 1990, she earned a master's degree from Cooper-Hewitt/
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In 1991, Soros was turned down for the job of director of graduate education at the
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household; summing up her upbringing, Weber stated: "We were cultural Jews."
121:(born 1954) is an American historian. She is the founder and director of the 173: 150: 196: 158: 243:, twenty-four years her senior, and the primary contributor to the 589: 200: 506:"At Home With: Susan Soros; A Private Life, A Public Passion" 323:
The Secular Furniture of E.W. Godwin: With Catalogue Raisonné
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E.W. Godwin : secular furniture and interior design
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E.W. Godwin: Aesthetic Movement Architect and Designer
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Soros, Susan Weber, and Stefanie Walker (ed.) (2004).
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Soros, Susan Weber, and Catherine Arbuthnott (2003).
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James 'Athenian' Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity
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Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire
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Index

Columbia University
BA
Parsons School of Design
MA
Royal College of Art
PhD
George Soros
Alexander Soros
Bard Graduate Center
decorative arts
Bard College
Dutchess County, New York
George Soros
Brooklyn
New York City
Russia
Jewish
Episcopal
Brooklyn
Barnard College
Columbia University
Parsons
Royal College of Art
London
PhD
E. W. Godwin
Open Society Institute (OSI)
Parsons School of Design
Bard Graduate Center
George Soros

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