Available April 2018
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, approximately 240 pages, 202 photos, including 25 in color, 8.25 x 10.25 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 Fall 2018
Peter Joel Harrison
Contributions by Matt Postal and Rhett Butler
Edited by Peter Pennoyer, Anne Walker, and
Ethel Rompilla
This vast collection of early American door styles from 1600 to circa 1860, is taken from the personal library and collections of Peter Joel Harrison. After thirty-two years of research and travel, Harrison has documented hundreds of doors from throughout America, more than eighty-four from historic properties, including Dutch, English, French and Spanish Colonial, Georgian, Federal, and Greek Revival, all handsomely portrayed.
Over 250 hand-drawn illustrations of entry doors and door surrounds, including hinges, latches, knockers, corner blocks, and transoms, all rendered in a traditional 19th-century style and many paired with the source photograph reproduced in full color.
Hardcover with black cloth spine, 272 pages, over 250 hand-drawn illustrations with more than 200 color photos,
8 x 10 ¾ inches
Retail price $65.00
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