Stanford White. Architect

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.

Hardcover: 320 pages

Publisher: Rizzoli (October 21 2008)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0847830799

ISBN-13: 978-0847830794

Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 1.5 x 12.4 inches

Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds