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Title: McKim, Mead & White : The Masterworks by Samuel G. White, Elizabeth White ISBN: 0-8478-2567-1 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 22 November, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Masterworks Still Vital to the American Landscape
Comment: When captains of industry like Morgan, Astor, or Vanderbilt chose to build grand edifices they engaged the services of the architecture firm McKim, Mead, and White. During the firms most inspired period (1879-1915), it built nearly 1,000 commissions, including many famous and important buildings that are still vital parts of the landscape and include: The Morgan Library, Boston Symphony Hall, Columbia University, and the American Academy in Rome.
Written by Samuel G. White (great grandson of Sanford White) and Elizabeth White, McKim, Mead, and White: The Masterworks documents non-residential works of America's greatest classical architects. This new book showcases twenty-four public buildings in remarkable detail. The majority of the buildings included in The Masterworks are still in use however several notable examples; Madison Square Garden, Penn Station, 4 pavilions at the World's Columbian Exposition, and Madison Square Presbyterian Church were demolished long ago.
The architects spared no expense when they created their masterworks and it is apparent that Rizzoli Publishers spared no expense in producing this lovely book. Contemporary color photographs by Jonathan Wallen document the buildings as they are today capturing the totality of their grandeur as well as their finest details. Fascinating archival photographs illustrate how the buildings appeared were when their doors first opened. And almost every building profile is augmented with elevation drawings, sketches, watercolors, and other rare background material. An informative text accompanies each profile. It sheds light on the personalities of the architects, their sources of inspiration, the personalities who commissioned the buildings, and the times when they lived and worked.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Rule of Taste
Comment: One of the most handsome books on architecture of recent years, beautifully written in a style that is concise without being in the least off-hand. You may find yourself mourning the passing of an age when so much distinguished architecture enhanced our cities, and mourning equally the fact of so much of it being taken for granted (and in many cases, heartlessly demolished)
One regrets, however, that the book's designers have gone the fashionable route of having its pages printed in a nearly matte-finish.
Rather than being the velvety ideal, here the photographs seem compromised by this technique. A good example is the photograph of the library at the University Club,( New York). What must be the most complexly rich and improbably Italianate room in North America comes off looking disapointingly murky and flat.( The author/photographer's previous book, Houses of Mc Kim Mead White, while employing the same approach, was rather better printed.)
But this is a quibble; the book is ravishing.
Rating: 5
Summary: A lavish, beautiful book.
Comment: This is one of the most gorgeously photographed and inspiring works on American architecture available. Page after page of elaborately embellished interiors await the eye; a true feast of beauty, and a "shame on you" to the priests of pre-fab who have dominated our architectural heritage since McKim Mead and White.
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Title: The Houses of McKim, Mead & White by Samuel G. White, Jonathan Wallen ISBN: 0847820718 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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Title: Thomas Jefferson : The Built Legacy of Our Third President by Hugh Howard ISBN: 0847825469 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 23 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest: Architecture and Landscape Design 1856-1940 by Kim Coventry, Daniel Meyer, Arthur H. Miller ISBN: 0393730999 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich by Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker, Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Jayne ISBN: 0393730875 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 17 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Most Beautiful Libraries in the World by Guillaume de Laubier, Jacques Bosser, James H. Billington, Laurel Hirsch (translator) ISBN: 0810946343 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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