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Title: The Houses of McKim, Mead & White by Samuel G. White, Jonathan Wallen ISBN: 0-8478-2071-8 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: mindless nepotism
Comment: This book has some nice photographs but adds nothing to already published scholarship on this topic. The author is not a professional architectural historian; he is a descendant of Stanford White. His text is gushy and uncritical, and makes only scant mention of the social and economic forces that contributed to the rise and decline of these grandiose houses.
Rating: 5
Summary: A minor correction
Comment: The point of this review is to correct an error in Steven Goldstein's review of this book. McKim, Mead, & White were not involved in the construction of the Metropolitan Opera, as he states.
This is a wonderful, ravishing book, although I suppose some readers might be disappointed that the author has limited himself to surviving examples of McKim, Mead, & White's work, with current photographs ... all of them gorgeous. Vintage photographs, where available, would have been a nice addition. For example, it would be interesting, if possible, to compare the Pulitzer mansion in New York as originally built with the current photos ... it has been divided into something like 9 condominiums!
Rating: 5
Summary: Luscious Vision of the Gilded Age
Comment: Speaking as a practicing architect and longtime admirer of the works of Stanford White, I found this book was nonetheless a revelation. Gorgeously photographed, it shows a broader spectrum of the residential work of this illustrious firm. McKim Mead and White have a well-deserved reputation for grand public buildings (Penn Station, Madison Square Garden to name two that have sadly been demolished) but are less known for these spectacular houses built for the robber barons of the Gilded Age among whom Stanford White circulated. What is suprising is the facility with which they moved from lavish and elegantly detailed city houses to surprisingly unpretentious inviting summer homes on Long Island and elsewhere. If you love Beaux Arts architecture, skip this book at your peril.
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Title: McKim, Mead & White : The Masterworks by Samuel G. White, Elizabeth White ISBN: 0847825671 Publisher: Rizzoli Pub. Date: 22 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Shingle Styles by Bret Morgan, Leland M Roth ISBN: 0810944774 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: The Architecture of McKim, Mead & White in Photographs, Plans and Elevations by Mead & McKim White ISBN: 0486265560 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: American Country Houses of the Gilded Age (SheldonÂs "Artistic Country-Seats") by A. Lewis ISBN: 048624301X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 December, 1982 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Shingle Style and the Stick Style: Architectural Theory&Design from Richardson to the Origins of Wright by Vincent, Jr. Scully ISBN: 0300015194 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1983 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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