Isbn: 9781400040261 - fallingwater rising: frank lloyd wright, e. j. kaufmann, and america's most extraordinary house (18 risultati)

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Condizione: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. near fine. x, [2], 479 pages, 16 pages of color illustrations: 97 in-text illustrations; 24 cm. Red and yellow cover with gilt spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Book is in Near Fine Condition: slightly cocked; clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: edges slightly rubbed; clean and bright.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 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.…

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Book is in unread or gently read condition. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Condizione: very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. 8vo pp. 479. book.

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hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. As the attached photos will attest, this is a magnificent first-edition first-printing of Franklin Toker's take on our nation's most extraordinary house and the man who designed it. As such, it'd make a great addition to any collection, or a great gift for the aspiring architect in your life.…

hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.