Art Encyclopedia:
Ely-Jacques Kahn
(b New York, 1 June 1884; d New York, 5 Sept 1972). American architect. His Austrian-Jewish family background afforded him early intimacy with European decorative arts, particularly those of Vienna. He was educated at Columbia University, New York, graduating from the architecture school in 1907. He spent the next four years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he met Raymond Hood and Ralph Walker, whose careers and attitudes ran parallel with his. After assisting various architects, in 1915 he joined Buchman & Fox in New York and became a partner in 1919. The firm was successively known as Buchman and Kahn, E.-J. Kahn and later Kahn & Jacobs.
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