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Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence Glenn Adamson

Tue, 20 May 2025 10:11:28 GMT

Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence Glenn Adamson
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Gaetano Pesce: The Complete Incoherence

Glenn Adamson

The definitive volume on Gaetano Pesce’s incomparable life and career, as told in the artist-designer’s own words

In a category all his own, Gaetano Pesce is widely considered one of the most important, and elusive, creative figures of the last half century. Bridging numerous key art and design movements, while never belonging to any of them, Pesce’s singular practice has remained steadfastly provocative, defying convention, utility, and good taste.

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Midcentury Houses Today

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 09:09:02 GMT

Midcentury Houses Today
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This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, built by noted architects including Marcel Breuer, Eliot Noyes, Philip Johnson, John Black Lee, and Edward Durell Stone. This new edition addresses the issue of preservation and adaptive reuse as a sustainable architectural strategy.

A representative group of 17 houses reveals an evolving legacy, now adapting to contemporary life. Each is examined in detail, with plans, timelines, and both archival and new photography, capturing the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction and re-imagining by significant architects of our time. Today preservation and renovation of older buildings has new visibility as a sustainable approach. As the National Trust for Historic Preservation has said, “The greenest building is the one that is already built.

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The Glass House Coloring Book

Fri, 19 Nov 2021 15:23:53 GMT

The Glass House Coloring Book
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Experience The Glass House—Philip Johnson’s modernist home in New Canaan, Connecticut—in a fun new way with The Glass House Coloring Book. This adult-oriented yet kid-friendly coloring book contains 96 pages of perforated line drawings, photographs, and historical information on The Glass House. Cover art by Vik Muniz. Foreword by Paul Goldberger.

Three dozen black-and-white illustrations capture the architectural highlights of Johnson’s visionary mid-century glass-and-steel pavilion, which ushered the International Style into residential American architecture. Each illustration is accompanied by the photograph that inspired it, along with caption information detailing its historical and aesthetic significance. Landscape and design elements include furniture by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the chain link Ghost House, and the skylit Sculpture Gallery. Fascinating to read and relaxing to color, the book makes a wonderful keepsake and gift idea for architecture enthusiasts and colorists of all ages.

96 Pages / 8.5” X 11”

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The Iconic House

Thu, 8 Jun 2017 11:08:00 GMT

The Iconic House
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Dominic Bradbury and Richard Powers

An essential book on modern architecture: one hundred of the most significant houses of the past hundred years.
From the first stirrings of modernity in the early twentieth century to the present, the house has served as a test bed of design experimentation, the place where architects have sought to create new forms and to offer new domestic lifestyles. Alvar Aalto, Buckminster Fuller, Rudolph Schindler, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, Eileen Gray, Charles and Ray Eames, Charles Gwathmey, Carlo Scarpa, Herzog & de Meuron: most great architects of the past hundred years have begun or catalyzed their careers with an iconic house.

Dominic Bradbury is a design writer.

Richard Powers is an architectural and interiors photographer.

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Mid-Century Modern Icons of Design

Tue, 18 Oct 2016 11:46:00 GMT

Mid-Century Modern Icons of Design
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Four concertina books, collected in a stylish slipcase, unfold accordion-style to feature quirky graphic representations of iconic mid-centry furniture and products, accompanied on the flip side by concise, insightful text exploring the designer’s influences and the product’s place in design history. Illustrations of iconic mid century designs, from Eames chairs to Poul Henningsen lamps and George Nelson clocks, Each volume focuses on a different area. Together they comprise the perfect guide to mid-century design.

4.8 in x 6.7 in x 1.9 in

Text By: Frances Ambler

Frances Ambler is a London-based writer and editor.

Illustrated By: Here Design

Here Design is a multi-disciplinary design studio based in London.

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American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture

Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:02:00 GMT

American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture
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Author: Alice T. Friedman, 2010

The sleek lines and gleaming facades of the architecture of the late 1940s and 1950s reflect a culture fascinated by the promise of the Jet Age. Buildings like Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal at JFK Airport and Philip Johnson’s Four Seasons Restaurant retain a thrilling allure, seeming to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. In this work, distinguished architectural historian Alice Friedman draws on a vast range of sources to argue that the aesthetics of mid-century modern architecture reflect an increasing fascination with “glamour,” a term widely used in those years to characterize objects, people, and experiences as luxurious, expressive, and even magical.

Featuring assessments of architectural examples ranging from Mies van der Rohe’s monolithic Seagram Building to Elvis Presley’s sprawling Graceland estate, as well as vintage photographs, advertisements, and posters, this book argues that new audiences and client groups with tastes rooted in popular entertainment made their presence felt in the cultural marketplace during the postwar period. The author suggests that American and European architecture and design increasingly reflected the values of a burgeoning consumer society, including a fundamental confidence in the power of material objects to transform the identity and status of those who owned them.

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Mies

Mon, 5 May 2014 17:11:00 GMT

Mies
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Unprecedented in scope and illustrated with more than 700 original drawings, plans, diagrams, and contemporary and archival photographs, Mies by Detlef Mertins is the most definitive monograph ever published on the modern master of architecture Mies van der Rohe. Mertins’ rich and highly readable text traces the aesthetic and intellectual context for all Mies’ work, with in–depth discussions of his most important projects. Featuring some of the twentieth century’s most iconic buildings, such as the Barcelona Pavilion in Spain, the Crown Hall at IIT, and the Seagram Building in New York, Mies paints a fascinating portrait of the famed architect whose contribution to the modern urban landscape cannot be overlooked.

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Journey: The Life and Times of an American Architect

Wed, 23 Apr 2014 10:25:00 GMT

Journey: The Life and Times of an American Architect
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With a preface by prominent philanthropist, art collector, curator, and Wanzenberg's friend, Beth Rudin DeWoody

- Featuring stunning, never-before-published images of Wanzenberg's projects by world-renowned photographer William Abranowicz

Journey: The Life and Times of an American Architect is the first-ever monograph to chronicle the trajectory, work, inspirations, and motivations of esteemed New York architect and interior designer Alan Wanzenberg. For Wanzenberg, designing is nothing short of an intellectual process. With sensitivity to place and a deep understanding of design history, Journey showcases his original takes on archetypical styles, including American Arts & Crafts, Shaker, French Art Deco, and American Farmhouse. The result is always a seamlessly developed, beautifully understated home that is a perfect amalgamation of the client's taste and the project's context. Become inspired by the integral influences and experiences that comprise Wanzenberg s journey, all of which have led him to become the distinctive, high-profile, and well-accomplished designer that he is today.

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The Struggle for Modernisim

Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:21:00 GMT

The Struggle for Modernisim
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Published in June 2002, this remarkable volume tells the unique history of modernism asreflected in the teaching of architecture, landscape architecture, and cityplanning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Tracingdevelopments at the GSD, which was home from 1937 to 1952 of Bauhaus founderWalter Gropius, Anthony Alofsin reveals that America had initiated its ownmodern agenda before the arrival of the European modernist ideology. Filledwith archival photographs and plans that have never been published before, thisbook will be of great interest to students and professionals in the fields ofart, architecture, and design, as well as to architectural historians.

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Tomorrow's Houses: New England Modernism

Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:47:00 GMT

Tomorrow's Houses: New England Modernism
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Published in April 2011, this book is a richly photographed presentation of the best modernist houses in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, built during the early twentieth century through the 1960s.

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