Singular vision : architecture, art, landscape / Tom Armstrong ; principal photography by Don Freeman.

Main entry:

Armstrong, Tom, 1932-2011.

Title & Author:

Singular vision : architecture, art, landscape / Tom Armstrong ; principal photography by Don Freeman.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

255 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Hoover Hall. Fishers Island -- Don't look furnishing Hoover Hall -- Life at Hoover Hall -- Hooverness. The fire -- Decision to rebuild -- Modernism -- Choice of an architect -- Meeting Tom Phifer -- The plan -- The geothermal system -- Approvals -- Furnishings -- A lesson about architecture -- Architecture. Building Hooverness -- Light -- Landscape. Becoming a gardener -- The garden walk -- You're buying rocks? -- Architecture and Landscape -- Art. Abstraction -- Art purchase fund -- Assembling a collection -- A walk through Hooverness -- Views in place.

Summary:

After a fire destroyed his colonial revival house on Fisher's Island, Tom Armstrong and his wife commissioned Thomas Phifer and Partners to design a spectacular modernist steel and glass house on the same site, fulfilling Mr. Armstrong's dream of living in a garden surrounded by art. Beginning with the first house, this book takes us through the fire, the selection of an architect, the building of the new house, and the acquisition of furnishings and art. Throughout we encounter designs and artwork by such notables as Marcel Breuer, Frank Gehry, Mies van der Rohe, Eero Sarrinen, Mark di Suvero, Isamu Noguchi, Betty Woodman, Alfred Leslie, Leon Polk Smith, Terry Winters, and a host of others. We also become privy to the thinking of an inventive gardener whose meticulous planning has resulted in an extraordinary setting for architecture and art and is open to the public during the summer months. 70 full-color and 30 black-and-white photographs. -- Book Description.

ISBN:

9781593720438
1593720432

Subject:

Armstrong, Tom, 1932-2011 Homes and haunts New York (State) Fishers Island.
Armstrong, Tom, Homes and haunts New York (State) Fishers Island.
Armstrong, Tom, 1932-2011
Thomas Phifer and Partners.
Architect-designed houses New York (State) Fishers Island.
Architect-designed houses
Buildings
Homes
Fishers Island (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (State) Fishers Island

Added entries:

Freeman, Don, 1957-

Architecture, art, landscape

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279119
Call No.: BIB 215013
Status: Available

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