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Henry Hobson Richardson: J. J. Glessner House, Chicago by Harrington
Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. AS NEW but for slight dj edgewear; no tears; no internal markings of any kind Henry Hobson Richardson designed the Glessner House (1885-87) in Chicago for an industrialist and his family. The house was built in an elite residential neighborhood on the south side of the city near the Loop, and Richardson took advantage of the lot's location on the south-western corner of Prairie Avenue and Eighteenth Street to give the building a special character. He seized this opportunity to provide two impressive facades as well as an inner court yard unseen from either street. Even after a century of change in its urban surroundings the Glessner House, with its two exterior walls of rough cut pink-gray granite, conveys a powerful presence. The Glessner House is significant because it was created toward the end of the life and the career of Richardson who was the most important American architect of the nineteenth century. It is one of the mature works of this well-trained and highly creative architect, and has been called "his best residence in Chicago, probably his best anywhere". In common with other architects of the 1870's and 80's Richardson rethought the floor plan of the American house. However, his plans were especially adept, even revolutionary, in combining functional and aesthetic aspects. In his working fashion Richardson conceived the house as a whole, planned it from the inside out, and carefully placed rooms and their connections in the plan. He unified the facade, exterior massing, and decorative elements, the whole expressing the building's purpose. The recent Hedrich-Blessing colour photographs, primarily by Robert Shimer, display the warm, rich interior surfaces and the reserved granite facades of the house to their fullest advantage. Added to thisbook is a portfolio of historic black and white photographs that record Richardson's masterwork while the Glessner family was in residence. Elaine M. Holzschuh Harrington has been the Curator of the Glessner House and the Curator of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (Opus 23: Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Oak Park). She has written and lectured extensively about both. Hedrich-Blessing, Chicago's oldest and foremost architectural photography firm, was founded in 1929. From its beginning, the firm has been noted for portraying the most dramatic rendition of a building within the bounds of high architectural accuracy.
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The Aesthetic Movement by Lionel Lambourne
The aesthetic movement (whose motto was "art for art's sake", swept through North America and England in the late 19th century and touched every sphere of the fine and decorative arts. All aspects of design experienced new freedom and revitalization, perhaps best personified by the colorful Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley. Huge social and cultural changes occurred because more than a decorative style, the aesthetic movement reflected an attitude. For the firs time a direct correlation was being made between beautiful surroundings and the quality of one's life, and beautiful objects were being championed as fit for everybody and not just for the privileged elite. The movement's emphasis was on interiors and artifacts that would improve the quality of life for their sheer beauty. The decorative arts were completely reevaluated and elevated to new status; the industrial revolution was resisted; an explosion of new clubs and organizations abounded, and people could not get enough of books on how to decorate one's home. Lionel Lambourne's The Aesthetic Movement is a monumental work on the subject. Original scholarship combines with a flair for descriptive writing and an eye for the perfect representative example have combined to produce a seminal and definitive work that will grace every personal, academic or community library art history collection.
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In Pursuit of Beauty - Antiques by Lise Bohm
This is a used hardcover book in excellent condition. This volume, published to accompany an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "explores a period inspired by a British movement that had reacted against the Industrial Revolution's machine-made products. The eleven essays . . . range from general social history to such specific crafts as stained glass and metalwork. . . . A 'Dictionary of Architects, Artisans, Artists, and Manufacturers' compiled by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger, a research associate at the Metropolitan, {is included}." (N Y Times Book Rev) Bibliography and Index. Buyer to pay shipping and handling of $5.00.
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Herter Brothers - Furniture and Interiors of the Gilded Age
Softcover book published by Harry Abrams and in associations with the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston. The book contains 271 pages of color illustrations and black & white pictures. This book is an intensive study of the finest maker of 19th Century furniture in the aesthetic style, renaissance revival, etc. "Gustave Herter came to America in 1848, followed by his brother, Christian, in 1859. By 1875 the furniture from the 'Herter Brothers' shop was in great demand by America's wealthiest families. . . . This study, of the Herters, who worked with exotic woods and ornate inlay combined with ebonizing and gilding, is published in conjunction with a 1994-95 exhibition in Houston, Atlanta, and New York." (Libr J) Bibliography. Index. In 1848, Gustave Herter arrived in America from Germany, fleeing political and economic chaos. His brother, Christian, joined him a decade later. By 1875 their firm, renamed Herter Brothers, was supplying the White House with furnishings, as it had been doing for some of America's wealthiest families since 1858. During this opulent period, Herter Brothers could claim to be the leading cabinetmaking and decorating firm in the country. The Herter brothers' extraordinary accomplishment has never before been the subject of a book. Here, at last, is an in-depth study of these talented men, their company, and its work, prized then as now for its design, richness of materials and detail, superb craftsmanship, and splendid diversity. The best of the Herter Brothers' furniture and interiors are displayed in 133 color and 167 black-and-white illustrations, including many close-up details as well as comparative work by rival fine cabinetmakers of the time in New York and Europe. Herter Brothers tells the story of the company from its earliest manifestations, when Gustave worked with other partners and alone, through his partnership with his brother, to Christian's years as head of the firm and the end of his tenure. The book places the company firmly in its context, international as well as domestic, with an extensive discussion of the brothers' background and influences and an absorbing narrative of the furniture and decoration trade in New York City in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Also described is the superb work done by the firm for their fabulously wealthy patrons - a who's who of the Gilded Age, including J. Pierpont Morgan, William H. Vanderbilt, and Jay Gould - for whom the Herters created some of their most lavish furniture and complete interiors. These commissions, many illustrated here, included woodwork, plasterwork, lighting fixtures, window treatments, wall and ceiling paintings, carpets, textiles, mosaics, stained glass, and decorative objects. Buyer to pay shipping and handling of $5.00 in continental USA. Please note that I have the hardcover format for sale for $65.00.
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