Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest: Architecture and Landscape Design 1856-1940 (Norton Professional Books for Architects & Designers) - Hardcover

Coventry, Kim; Meyer, Daniel; Miller, Arthur H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393730999 ISBN 13: 9780393730999

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Synopsis

Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest is the first systematic study of this richly textured built environment. Beginning with suburban villas in the manner of Andrew Jackson Downing, Lake Forest was transformed by the work of Henry Ives Cobb, Howard Van Doren Shaw, David Adler, Harrie T. Lindeberg, Charles A. Platt, Holabird & Roche, Delano & Aldrich, Arthur Heun, and others. It was also distinguished by a tradition of innovation in landscape design, from the original Romantic picturesque town plan of 1857 to the later estate work of O. C. Simonds, the Olmsteds, Warren Manning, Rose Standish Nichols, and Jens Jensen. Architectural renderings, landscape plans, drawings, and period photographs of architecture and gardens, many of them not previously published, illustrate the work of these masters.

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Review:

Coventry, Meyer, and Miller have made a significant contribution with this excellent history of one community examined from many angles. They have blended their research and individual styles into a highly readable and graceful whole.--Carolyn Torma

Synopsis:

Lake Forest, Illinois, 30 miles north of Chicago on the western shore of Lake Michigan, has been one of America's elite residential communities for one and a half centuries. Spread across the edge of lakeside bluffs and along deep ravines, hundreds of elegant country estates house the families of Chicago's commercial, professional and cultural leaders - the greatest concentration of American country estates to be found between the two coasts. Lake Forest architecture and landscaping reflect a significant interplay of leading practitioners and design theories spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. This guide offers a tour of the houses, landscapes, gardens, gentlemen's farms and country clubs that have made the community a landmark of architectural and landscape design. Architectural renderings, landscape plans, drawings and period photographs of architecture and gardens, many of them not previously published, illustrate the work of these masters and the fabulous lifestyles of a bygone era.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0393730999
• ISBN 13: 9780393730999
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312