Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House

Toker, Franklin

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 2002

1400040264 / 9781400040261

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479 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told. When he got the commission to design the house, Wright was nearing seventy, his youth and his early fame long gone. It was the Depression, and Wright had no work in sight. Into his orbit stepped Edgar J. Kaufmann, a Pittsburgh department-store mogul--the smartest retailer in America--and a philanthropist with the burning ambition to build a world-famous work of architecture. It was an unlikely collaboration: the Jewish merchant who had little concern for modern architecture and the brilliant modernist who was leery of Jews. But the two men collaborated to produce an extraordinary building of lasting architectural significance that brought international fame to them both and confirmed Wright’s position as the greatest architect of the twentieth century. Fallingwater Rising is also an enthralling family drama, involving Kaufmann, his beautiful cousin/wife, Liliane, and their son, Edgar Jr., whose own role in the creation of Fallingwater and its ongoing reputation is central to the story. Involving such key figures of the l930s as Frida Kahlo, Albert Einstein, Henry R. Luce, William Randolph Hearst, Ayn Rand, and Franklin Roosevelt, Fallingwater Rising shows us how E. J. Kaufmann’s house became not just Wright’s masterpiece but a fundamental icon of American life. One of the pleasures of the book is its rich evocation of the upper-crust society of Pittsburgh--Carnegie, Frick, the Mellons--a society that was socially reactionary but luxury-loving and baronial in its tastes, hobbies, and sexual attitudes (Kaufmann had so many mistresses that his store issued them distinctive charge plates they could use without paying). Franklin Toker has been studying Fallingwater for eighteen years. No one but he could have given us this compelling saga of the most famous private house in the world and the dramatic personal story of the fascinating people who made and used it. A major contribution to both architectural and social history." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: A Fallingwater timeline; Approaching Fallingwater; The dead man of modern architecture plans a comeback; E.J. Kaufmann of Pittsburgh suffers humiliation of another sort; Bear Run: the land awaiting; Frank Lloyd Wright seeks a client, gets a patron; The design of Fallingwater struggles nine months to be born; Raising Fallingwater; Fallingwater gets an interior; Fabricating Fallingwater I: the hype that sold it; Fabricating Fallingwater II: the buzz that made America buy it; The Kaufmanns showcase Fallingwater, and vice versa; The renaissance prince in winter; Edgar Kaufmann Jr., true lord of Fallingwater; Fallingwater for ourselves. Size: 8vo.

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Titolo
Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Autore
Toker, Franklin
Editore
Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York
Anno di pubblicazione
2002
Condizione
Fine
Sovraccoperta
Fine
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1400040264
ISBN 13
9781400040261
Cataloghi dei venditori
Architecture::Architects, Architecture::Domestic, Genre & Subject::Religious::Judaica, Patronage::Individual Collectors, USA::5. Modern, 1900-1945, USA::States::Pennsylvania, XO::Standard, XXL::Extra Extra Large

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