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Stanford White, Architect
written by Samuel G. White, Elizabeth White
Studio : Rizzoli
by Rizzoli
Release Date : 2008-10-21
Publisher : Rizzoli
Released : 2008-10-21
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780847830794
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 3 reviews)
List Price : $75.00
Our Price : $46.99
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Through all-new, full-color photography, Stanford White, Architect is the first book to explicitly feature the work of the principal genius of the illustrious American architecture firm of McKim, Mead & White. The firm was also a prime mover in the realm of residential design, with Stanford White as its visionary head. As an architect of opulent houses—in Newport, Rhode Island, along the Hudson, on the Long Island Gold Coast, and elsewhere—Stanford White had few peers. His genius for this form is expressed nowhere more wonderfully than in such personal masterpieces as his country home Box Hill and his city home in Gramercy Park. Along with residential commissions for such eminent American families as the Vanderbilts, Astors, Pulitzers, Paynes, and Whitneys, Stanford White lent his eye and hand to New York’s Pennsylvania Station, Brooklyn Museum, The American Academy in Rome, and the Boston Public Library, as well as many diverse commissions, including social clubs, public buildings, churches, monuments, university buildings, and many other forms, each of which is represented in this landmark volume. |
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The book is great! All new photographs and great writing. But Credit for the Goulet Building (20th and Broadway) does NOT belong to Stanford (the Beaver) White!!!! It was designed by Bigelow when the firm was McKim, Mead and Bigelow and the cause of his seperation from the firm. |
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Lifting it up is the only problem |
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This is a wonderful book that may only appeal to architectural buffs as I am but it would be a wonderful look for anyone just to see how great architecture is done. Truly a coffee table book, as you need to put it on the table to read it comfortably, I highly recommed it. |
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This really is the definative work on the great Stanford White. The text is informative without being a PHD disertation and the images are really spectacular. White was not only an amazing architect of the classic venacular, but he was a huge celebrity in his own right. This book covers his singular career with panache, it covers his work both minor and major, with the main focus being on his best work, most notibly his masterpeice for Mrs. Herman Olreichs, that house is simply perfection personified and the images in this book capture it at its grandest. Of course, White has many distinguished works and they are all given their due in this book. If you have any interest at all in Stanford White, Gilded Age architecture, or just appreciate fine books, then i cant imagine you not being pleased with this book. A fine tribute to an iconic architect. |
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