Keeping It Real:

How Bob Shaw, Production Designer of “The Gilded Age,” Resurrects Nineteenth-Century New York

Park Avenue Armory

643 Park Avenue

New York, NY 10065

$50.00 members (plus fees)*

$70.00 general public (plus fees)

$30 live stream (plus fees)

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From the opulent mansions of Fifth Avenue to the original interiors of Brooklyn’s brownstones, HBO’s “The Gilded Age” has brought to life a New York City lost to the demands of progress, changing tastes, and the march of time. Join us for a special evening with Bob Shaw, the show’s Emmy-winning production designer, to learn how he balances historical accuracy against creative license, the penchants of a modern audience, and the realities on the ground to resurrect nineteenth-century Gilded Age New York City.

The talk will take place in the Veterans Room and Library of the Park Avenue Armory. Designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Stanford White and completed in 1881, these historic interiors are among the few remaining American Aesthetic Movement spaces and the only fully extant interiors created by Tiffany’s cooperative design firm, Associated Artists.

Reception to follow.

All proceeds benefit the preservation efforts of the New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America.

Bob Shaw’s work as a production designer includes Martin’s Scorsese’s film “The Irishman,” for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Production Design, and the television shows “The Sopranos,” “Mad Men,” and “Boardwalk Empire,” for which he received Emmy nominations, winning for the latter two.

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📷 Alison Cohen Rosa/HBO

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