Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
Language: English
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2020
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA), Littleton, CO, U.S.A.Bluebird Books (RMABA, IOBA)
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A first printing of Harriet Pattison's memoir, which tells of her relationship with "the love of her life," Louis Kahn (1901-1974). The Estonian-born Kahn was a world-renowned architect, based in Philadelphia. He often traveled the world on various projects and made a habit of sending letters (often with his drawings) to Harriet, dozens of which are reproduced in this volume. Though Kahn was married to another, he and Harriet had a son together, Nathaniel Kahn. --- In full green cloth-covered boards with cover titling in blind; gilt-stamped spine titling. The dust jacket features a black & white photographic portrait of the couple, taken by their son. --- A bright, tightly-bound, unmarked copy though with slight soiling to cloth and a slightly cocked spine. Unclipped, unpriced jacket in great shape; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; x, 438 pages.
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- Title
- Our Days Are Like Full Years: A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn
- Author
- PATTISON, Harriet
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0300223129
- ISBN 13
- 9780300223125
- Edition
- First Edition.
On a winter day in 1953, a mysterious man in a sheepskin coat stood out to Harriet Pattison, then a theater student at Yale. She would later learn he was the architect Louis Kahn (1901&;1974). This chance encounter served as preamble to a fifteen-year romance, with Pattison becoming the architect&;s closest confidante, his intellectual partner, and the mother of his only son.
 
Here for the first time, Pattison recounts their passionate and sometimes searing relationship. Married and twenty-seven years her senior, Kahn sent her scores of letters&;many from far-flung places&;until his untimely death. This book weaves together Pattison&;s own story with letters, postcards, telegrams, drawings, and photographs that reveal Kahn&;s inner life and his architectural thought process, including new insight into some of his greatest works, both built and unbuilt. What emerges is at once a poignant love story and a vivid portrait of a young woman striving to raise a family while forging an artistic path in the shadow of her famous partner.
 
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