ISBN: 9780548123560

The Arts and Crafts movement, with its rejection of corner-cutting mass production technology, gave rise to an enthusiasm for fine art printing, and Chicago-where Frank Lloyd Wright (1867… Altro …

The Arts and Crafts movement, with its rejection of corner-cutting mass production technology, gave rise to an enthusiasm for fine art printing, and Chicago-where Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) practiced architecture early in his career-was a national center for artisan books. With a skilled hand for elegant design, Wright created The House Beautiful for the tiny Auvergne Press in the late 1890s; it was produced in an edition of just ninety copies. The book's author, the The Arts and Crafts movement, with its rejection of corner-cutting mass production technology, gave rise to an enthusiasm for fine art printing, and Chicago-where Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) practiced architecture early in his career-was a national center for artisan books. With a skilled hand for elegant design, Wright created The House Beautiful for the tiny Auvergne Press in the late 1890s; it was produced in an edition of just ninety copies. The book's author, the distinguished Unitarian minister William Gannett, proposed that spiritual, intellectual, societal, and corporeal health could be augmented by a properly designed and furnished home. Gannett's views dovetailed precisely with Wright's emerging theory of organic architecture, and The House Beautiful in consequence, became an early-modernist duet of enlightened prose and visionary design. This book's complex, exacting drawings-nine of which are in the archives of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, at Taliesin West-surround Gannett's lyrical prose and introduce new chapters (Photography was one of Wright's interests, and twelve of his nature studies appeared in the book, as they do in this edition). Once available only to colleagues of Gannett, Wright, and Auvergne's publisher, William Winslow, The House Beautiful epitomizes the cutting edge of avant-garde design, circa 1897. Books, Architecture~~General, House-Beautiful~~William-Channing-Gannett, 999999999, The House Beautiful, William Channing Gannett, 054812356X, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 054812356X

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe… Altro …

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. used books,books Books, Kessinger Publishing, LLC<