NEW RARE 1st ED Henry Clay Frick Houses Interiors Architecture Landscape BOOK

Description: WE WILL BE LISTING LOADS OF GORGEOUS RARE BOOKS & RECORDS & HOUSEWARES & LINENS & ACCESSORIES NEW AND VINTAGE!   AUTHENTIC AND ORIGINAL NEW CONDITION   RARE OVERSIZE DELUXE 1ST LIMITED EDITION The Henry Clay Frick Houses: Architecture, Interiors, Landscapes in the Golden EraARCHITECTURE INTERIOR DESIGN LANDSCAPE BOOK Henry Clay Frick, the world-famous art collector and steel tycoon, was a towering figure in America's "gilded age" of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The houses he built for himself and his family exemplify the great residences of the era, with priceless art, cultivated gardens, and interiors by the most prestigious designers of the day. This elegant volume, written by Frick's great-granddaughter and biographer, features the four major houses purchased, built, and renovated for the steel magnate; each is described in exacting detail, with information about the architects and interior designers, furnishings and art, and decoration. Beautiful archival photographs―interior and exterior, many previously unseen―and architectural drawings document the residences. The late-Victorian Clayton, in Pittsburgh, was Henry Clay Frick's first home as a married man and the chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company; it now houses the Frick Art and Historical Center. Eagle Rock, the Fricks' summer retreat to the north of Boston, was a neoclassical, all-brick colossus designed by Arthur Little and Herbert W. C. Browne. The most famous house in the book is 1 East Seventieth Street, along New York's Fifth Avenue. Long recognized as one of the city's most elegant buildings and today housing the world-renowned Frick Collection, it was designed in 1912 by Thomas Hastings of Carrère & Hastings. The fourth house in the book is the Clayton Estate, a Georgian Revival masterpiece in Roslyn, New York, originally designed in 1901 by Odgen Codman Jr.; it is now the Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts. Product descriptionA paean to ostentatious capitalism and the glory of the golden era of domestic architecture and design (1880 through World War I), Sanger's comprehensive history of steel tycoon and art collector Frick's opulent houses, which easily compete with those of the Vanderbilts and Carnegies, evokes a bygone era of elaborate luxury. A gorgeous coffee-table book, it offers a detailed, even chatty description of the creation of each estate, from Clayton in Pittsburgh to One East Seventieth Street in New York City, accompanied by profuse illustrations from the family's archives. As far as decorative arts go, the Frick collections are fabulous examples of early-twentieth-century styles and taste--ranging from the crowded Victorian to the Beaux Arts school and neoclassical revivals. But this is no ordinary work of scholarship and appreciation: it's written by Frick's great-granddaughter and biographer, who remembers these edifices as homes rather than museum pieces, a viewpoint that serves to bring these palatial residences to life. Product details Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Monacelli Press (December 3, 2001) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 312 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1580931049 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580931045 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 5.5 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 1.38 x 12.38 inches GORGEOUS OVERSIZED MONOGRAPH BOOK PLEASE SEE OUR OTHER RARE DELUXE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS & RECORDS....LITERALLY HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS TO LIST.....WILL I LIVE THAT LONG????  

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