Main entry:

Pennoyer, Peter, author.

Title & Author:

New York transformed : the architecture of Cross & Cross / Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker ; foreword by Robert A.M. Stern ; new photographs by Jonathan Wallen.

Publication:

New York : The Monacelli Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
Includes a catalogue raisonné.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-231) and index.
The Cross brothers -- Residential New York. Houses ; Clubs ; Apartment buildings, hotels, and real estate development -- Country houses -- Shaping the city and beyond. Civic and institutional projects ; Banks, offices, and commercial buildings.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The architects Cross & Cross shaped the streetscape and skyline of New York City in the 1920s and 1930s with Upper East Side townhouses and apartment buildings, the RCA Victor Building, and Tiffany's flagship store on 57th Street. Working through a period of American history that saw dramatic change, from luxurious apartment buildings during the economic boom of the 1920s, to federal commissions during the Depression, the brothers John and Eliot Cross were masters of their craft. Well-connected society men who also showed remarkable foresight in business, Cross & Cross supported their practice with a partnered real estate firm and played a vital role in residential developments like Sutton Place along the East River. Cross & Cross oversaw the development of handsome clubs and houses throughout New York City, including the Links Club and the Upper East Side houses of Lewis Spencer Morris and George Whitney. They designed country houses in exclusive residential pockets outside New York: the Southampton estate of Winterthur founder Henry Francis du Pont; houses on the North Shore of Long Island, and in Greenwich, Connecticut; the childhood home of Sister Parish in Far Hills, New Jersey; and the Shelburne, Vermont home of J. Watson and Electra Webb.

ISBN:

9781580933803 (hbk.)
1580933807 (hbk.)

Subject:

Cross, John W., 1878-1951 Catalogues raisonnés.
Cross, Eliot, 1883 or 1884-1949 Catalogues raisonnés.
Cross & Cross History.
Cross & Cross Catalogs.
Cross & Cross.
Cross & Cross Catalogues raisonnés.
Architecture New York (State) New York History.
Architecture, Domestic New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic United States History 20th century.
Country homes New York (State) Long Island History 20th century.
Country homes United States History 20th century.
Architecture New York (État) New York Histoire.
Architecture domestique États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture History New York (State) 20th century.
Country homes History New York (State) 20th century.
Architecture, Domestic History New York (State) 20th century.
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Buildings
Country homes
Architektur
Architecture New York (State) New York History 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (State) Long Island
New York (State) New York
United States
New York
New York, NY

Form/genre:

Catalogues raisonnés.
catalogues raisonnés.
Catalogs
History

Added entries:

Walker, Anne, 1973- author.
Stern, Robert A. M., author of introduction, etc.
Wallen, Jonathan, photographer.
Walker, Anne author.
Stern, Robert A. M. author of introduction, etc.
Wallen, Jonathan photographer.
Cross & Cross, architect.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 286212
Call No.: BIB 226420
Status: Available