Stanford White, architect
By: Samuel G. White, Elizabeth White ; photographs by Jonathan Wallen.
Contributors: White, Elizabeth.; White, Stanford, 1853-1906.
Publisher: Rizzoli; Distributed to the U.S. trade by Random House; Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780847830794
Subjects: White, Stanford, -- 1853-1906 -- Criticism and interpretation; Eclecticism in architecture -- United States
Description: Through all-new, full-color photography, Stanford White, Architect is the first book to explicitly feature the work of the principal genius of the illustrious American architecture firm of McKim, Mead & White. The firm was also a prime mover in the realm of residential design, with Stanford White as its visionary head. As an architect of opulent houses—in Newport, Rhode Island, along the Hudson, on the Long Island Gold Coast, and elsewhere—Stanford White had few peers. His genius for this form is expressed nowhere more wonderfully than in such personal masterpieces as his country home Box Hill and his city home in Gramercy Park. Along with residential commissions for such eminent American families as the Vanderbilts, Astors, Pulitzers, Paynes, and Whitneys, Stanford White lent his eye and hand to New York’s Pennsylvania Station, Brooklyn Museum, The American Academy in Rome, and the Boston Public Library, as well as many diverse commissions, including social clubs, public buildings, churches, monuments, university buildings, and many other forms, each of which is represented in this landmark volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 347) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. The architect as client. Box Hill, Saint James, New York ; Gramercy Park, New York; title: 2. Collaboration. Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Monument, New York ; Veterans Room and Library, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York ; Villard Houses, New York ; Church of the Ascension, New York; title: 3. Houses. Alden Villa, Cornwall, Pennsylvania ; Isaac Bell House, Newport, Rhode Island ; Garrett-Jacobs House, Baltimore, Maryland ; Head of the Harbor, Saint James, New York ; Stuyvesant Fish House, New York ; Rosecliff, Newport, Rhode Island ; Payne Whitney House, New York; title: 4. Architecture of assembly. Newport Casino Theatre, Newport, Rhode Island ; The Players, New York ; The Century Association, New York ; Metropolitan Club, New York ; Ferncliff Casino, Rhinebeck, New York; title: 5. Public buildings. Lovely Lane Methodist Church, Baltimore, Maryland ; Madison Square Garden, New York ; Herald Building, New York ; Gould Library, New York University, Bronx, New York ; Madison Square Presbyterian Church, New York ; Tiffany & Co., New York.