Carrere and Hastings - Hardcover

Laurie Ossman; Heather Ewing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847835642 ISBN 13: 9780847835645

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, 2011

Synopsis

Carrere & Hastings were, along with McKim Mead & White, and Richard Morris Hunt, the most eminent architects of America's Gilded Age, and, with over 100 projects to their credit built between 1895 to 1924, they were one of the most prolific. They were responsible for some of the most lavish homes ever designed in America and also for some of the most important and prominent buildings for government, business, and cultural institutions. In its almost 30 years of existence, the firm designed houses for the Astors, The Paynes and the Whitneys, the duPonts, the Harrimans, the Scribners, the Goulds, the Winthrops and the Fricks (that house is now the Frick Museum). In addition, they made extensive renovations to the U.S. Capitol, and designed the Senate Office Building, the House Office Building, and the Carnegie Institute in Washington.

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Review:

"This gorgeous volume shows us a bygone age when creating beauty in the built environment was a main desideratum - and Beaux-Arts scientific rationalism provided the tools for achieving that lofty goal." Traditional Buildings

About the Author:

Laurie Ossman is director of the Woodlawn Plantation and Pope-Leighey House in Mount Vernon, Virginia, and author of Great Houses of the South. Heather Ewing is an architectural historian and a research associate of the Smithsonian Institution, and is a coauthor of The Castle, a history of the Institution's first building, and author of The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian. Steven Brooke is a fellow of both the American Academy in Rome and the Albright Institute, Jerusalem. His work has been widely published and exhibited.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0847835642
• ISBN 13: 9780847835645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320