Manhattan Unfurled - Rilegato

Pericoli, Matteo; Goldberger, Paul

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0375504915 ISBN 13: 9780375504914

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2001

Riassunto

The trained architect's unique, inspiring, breathtaking portrait of Manhattan is published here in fold-out format, revealing a panoramic view of the famous skyline in winter. 30,000 first printing.

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L'autore

Matteo Pericoli graduated from the Polytechnic School of Milan in 1995 and the same year moved to New York City, where he worked as an architect and as an illustrator. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Sports Illustrated, Harper’s, and the Italian national newspaper, La Stampa.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina

oli trained as an architect in Milan and then came to work in New York in 1995. His arrival preceded by just a few days the arrival of the biggest snowstorm of the decade, and the sense of the city in its wake–especially its silence–remained in his mind. He experienced similar feeling taking photographs of Riverside Drive from the Circle Line ferry, and decided to transpose them into a line drawing. It was then that he felt compelled to photograph the whole of New York’s shoreline profile–from Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx, and New Jersey (which he reached by motorcycle) — and make two continuous and continuously enchanting pen-and-ink drawing of Manhattan’s skyline.

Manhattan Unfurled is published in an elegant slipcase, and the drawings fold out, accordion-style, with the West on one side and the East on the other. An introduction by distinguished New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger, who first wrote bout Matteo’s proje

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0375504915
• ISBN 13: 9780375504914
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 60