White, Samuel G.

The houses of McKim, Mead & White / Samuel G. White ; photographs by Jonathan Wallen.

New York : Rizzoli, 1998.

252 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

With nearly one thousand commissions executed between 1879 and 1912, McKim, Mead & White was the architectural firm of choice of the most prestigious projects of the era, including the redesign of the White House and the Mall in Washington, D.C., and the campuses of Harvard and Columbia Universities. Among its residential clients were many of the most powerful figures of the Gilded Age-Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Pulitzers-for whom the firm built splendid summer cottages in Newport and throughout Long Island and the Hudson valley and sumptuous town houses in Boston, Washington, Baltimore and New York. More than thirty houses are presented here, their exteriors and interiors elegantly recorded in new color photographs. The book also provides the first look at the recent restoration of the Isaac Bell house in Newport and newly reinstalled Venetian room at the Payne Whitney house, now the French Cultural Services, in New York City.--From publisher description.

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McKim, Mead & White.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Eclecticism in architecture United States.
Architecture United States History 19th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Éclectisme en architecture États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Eclecticism in architecture
Woningen.
Interieurkunst.
Architectural firms United States.
Domestic architecture United States.
United States

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
History
Books.

Wallen, Jonathan
Museums at Stony Brook.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 176444
Cote: NA44.M158.23 W45 1998
Statut: Disponible