Title & Author:

Alan Buchsbaum, architect & designer : the mechanics of taste / edited and introduced by Frederic Schwartz ; with essays by Patricia Leigh Brown [and others].

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press, 1996.

Description:

223, [2] pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes text by Alan Buchsbaum.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224).
Proposal for the 1984/85 Design Arts Fellowship (NEA Advanced Fellowship) at the American Academy in Rome / Alan Buchsbaum -- Introduction: All style(s) / Frederic Schwartz -- What's wrong with these pictures? / Stephen Tilly : Barroon ; Paper Poppy ; Metamorphosis ; Cado Showroom ; Gerber House ; Rosenberg House ; Haas Apartment ; Tenenbaum interiors ; Lewin Apartment ; Foam furniture ; Bathroom ; Here comes tomorrow ; Lloyds Apartment ; Cohen interiors -- 12 Greene Street lofts / Alan Buchsbaum : Krauss Loft ; Buchsbaum Lofts 1 & 2 ; Miller kitchen ; Abramson interiors ; The play setting ; Tenenbaum House ; Sanjurjo Penthouse -- Canal Street surrealism: the sensibility of Alan Buchsbaum / Rosalind Krauss : Restivo kitchen ; Hirsch kitchen ; Gerber/Rothsberg Apartment ; Jakobson bedroom -- The divine Mr. B. / Patricia Leigh Brown : Charivari Men's and Women's Stores ; Film Forum I ; Moondance Diner ; Gennaro Andreozzi Office ; 6-5-4-3-2-1 Wyoming ; Hegel's vacation ; Red Patricoff kitchen ; Keaton Apartment ; Balaban/Grossman Apartment ; Brinkley Apartment ; Barkin Loft ; Midler Loft ; Wintour/Shaffer Townhouse ; Joel/Brinkley Penthouse ; Dennis Apartment ; Wintour table ; Nevele chair ; Sugar chair ; Rock star coffee table ; Elkes tables ; O'Keefe Townhouse -- Alan Buchsbaum, 1935-1987 / Michael Sorkin : Ecco Shoes ; Nevele Hotel lobby ; V'Soske rugs -- Alan Buchsbaum: personal recollections / Steven Holl.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Architect Alan Buchsbaum was a figure of central importance on the American design scene during his two decades of independent practice. His career, and his unique ability both to draw from and to draw out the world around him, reflected the revitalized spirit of his times, the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties.
This lavishly illustrated monograph collects, for the first time, over fifty projects; its unique intertwining of work and text, image and type, presents an integrated portrait of Alan Buchsbaum and his design oeuvre prior to his 1987 death from AIDS.
Buchsbaum's design outlook was at once irreverent and respectful, ironic and classical, versatile and idiosyncratic, elegant and entertaining. His Pop Art-influenced projects of the late sixties initiated the Super-Graphics look; elements of his High-Tech style of the mid-seventies became ubiquitous in interiors designed during that time; and his romantic modernism of the eighties, rich in materials and textures, foretold more extraordinary work to come.
These three broad periods are presented in this volume in more than twenty-five residential designs (for such clients as Ellen Barkin, Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, and Anna Wintour and David Shaffer), as well as commercial spaces, installations, furniture, and rugs.
In addition to the wealth of designs, this book features a variety of Buchsbaum's own writings - a fellowship essay, project descriptions, and zingy one-liners - as well as those of architect/editor Frederic Schwartz, architect/critic Michael Sorkin, writer Patricia Leigh Brown, critic Rosalind Krauss, and architects Stephen Tilly and Steven Holl. The complex picture that emerges is a testament to the individual whose untimely death robbed the design industry of a major talent.

ISBN:

1885254393 (hardcover)
9781885254399 (hardcover)

Subject:

Buchsbaum, Alan, 1935-1987 Criticism and interpretation.
Buchsbaum, Alan, 1935-1987.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Design United States History 20th century.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Design États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Design.
Architecture United States 20th century
United States.

Form/genre:

Writings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Schwartz, Frederic.
Brown, Patricia Leigh.
Buchsbaum, Alan, 1935-1987

Alan Buchsbaum, architect and designer
Mechanics of taste

Holdings:

Location: Library main 130119
Call No.: ID NA44.B9215; ID:97-B2061
Status: Available