Fallingwater, A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House
by Kaufmann, Edgar, Jr
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Book in fine condition./Jacket near fine but for a little ruffling at top of spine.
- ISBN 10
- 0896596621
- ISBN 13
- 9780896596627
- Seller
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Toledo, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York: Abbeville Press, 1986. First edition, Second printing. 4to. 13-1/4" x 10". White cloth covered boards both blind stamped with spine stamped in green. Color photo endpapers.190 pp. Book in fine condition./Jacket near fine but for a little ruffling at top of spine.. Principal Photography by Christopher Little and Thomas A. Heinz. Measured Drawings by L. D. Astorino & Associates, Ltd.. Such a breathtaking book about the most famous modern house in America. This charming and provocative book is the work of the man best qualified to undertake it, who was both apprentice to Wright and son of the man who commissioned the house. Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. closely followed the planning and construction of Fallingwater, and lived in the house on weekends and vacations for twenty-seven years - until, following the deaths fo his parents, he gave the house in 1963 to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy to hold for public enjoyment and appreciation. This is a personal, almost intimate record of one man's fifty-year relationship to a work of genius that only gradually revealed its complexities and originality. With full appreciation of the intentions of both architect and client, Mr. Kaufmann describes this remarkable building in detail, telling of its extraordinary virtues but not failing to reveal its faults.
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- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 827
- Title
- Fallingwater, A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House
- Author
- Kaufmann, Edgar, Jr
- Illustrator
- Principal Photography by Christopher Little and Thomas A. Heinz. Measured Drawings by L. D. Astorino & Associates, Ltd.
- Format/Binding
- 4to. 13-1/4" x 10". White cloth covered boards both blind stamped with spine stamped in green. Color photo endpapers.190 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Book in fine condition.
- Jacket Condition
- Jacket near fine but for a little ruffling at top of spine.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, Second printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0896596621
- ISBN 13
- 9780896596627
- Publisher
- Abbeville Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
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