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Marilyn F. Friedman
A valuable resource for design professionals, historians, and enthusiasts, this book chronicles the evolution of modern interior design in the United States throughout the 1930s. With images and detailed descriptions, design historian Marilyn F. Friedman presents more than one hundred interiors by fifty designers and architects, including Donald Deskey, Paul T. Frankl, Percival Goodman, Frederick Kiesler, William Lescaze, William Muschenheim, Tommi Parzinger, Gilbert Rohde, Eugene Schoen, and Kem Weber; set designers Cedric Gibbons and Joseph Urban; and industrial designers Raymond Loewy, Walter Dorwin Teague, and Russel Wright. The book also highlights the work of women modernists who are practically unknown today, including Virginia Conner, Freda Diamond, Eleanor Le Maire, and Madame Majeska.
This lively and important examination of the development of modernism comprehensively details, year by year, individual projects and their impact on modern interior design in America today.
Hardcover, 240 pages, 205 photos, including 34 in color
8.5 x 10.5 inches
Retail price $50.00
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David Nelson Wren
New photography by Steven Gunther and Tom Crane
Foreword by Michael C. Kathrens
A richly detailed history of the baronial splendor of the Philadelphia Main Line estate Ardrossan and of the Montgomery family who built it. Real-life American counterparts of the Granthams of Downton Abbey, the Montgomerys are best known as the family on which Philip Barry based his 1939 play, The Philadelphia Story, featuring Katharine Hepburn, who also starred in the later Hollywood film of the same name.
Essentially unaltered since 1912, Ardrossan stands almost alone as a reminder of the halcyon days of Philadelphia's Main Line. Built by one of America's great architects, Horace Trumbauer, Ardrossan represents a fine example of American country estate architecture, with interiors designed by the London-based firm of White, Allom & Company.
This beautifully illustrated book features never-before-published architectural drawings from Trumbauer's office, as well as family snapshots and images by celebrated photographers Cecil Beaton and Toni Frissell commissioned by Vogue, Country Life, and Town & Country.
Hardcover, cloth with dust jacket, 368 pages, over 450 photographs, mostly in color, two 8-page gatefolds, endnotes, bibliography, index, 8.75 x 11.5 inches
Retail price $75.00
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Available November 2018
Michael C. Kathrens
New photography by Bruce Mathews
Foreword by Steve Noll
Kansas City Houses 1885-1938 reveals the significant but little-known architectural treasures built during the city's boom years.
Architectural historian Michael C. Kathrens thoroughly documents forty superb houses that reflect the outsized fortunes of the influential Kansas Citizens who built them, including newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson, who helped establish the Nelson-Atkins Museum. The first survey of the rich architectural heritage of this major Midwestern hub, which straddles the state line between Kansas and Missouri, the book spotlights the work of highly accomplished architects, many of whom were based in Kansas City and have long been overshadowed by their high-profile East Coast counterparts; among them are Henry F. Hoit, Edward W. Tanner, Louis S. Curtiss, and Mary Rockwell Hook, one of the first women to study at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Kathrens's authoritative yet accessible text is complemented throughout by drawings, floor plans, archival images, and newly commissioned photographs.
Hardcover, 400 pages, 485 photos, including 192 in color and 75 floor plans, 9.25 x 12.25 inches
Published in association with Minnesota Prairie Wind Foundation
Retail price $69.95
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