Fallingwater A Frank Lloyd Wright Country House

by Edgar Kaufmann Jr., Edgar Kaufmann

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An engaging, intimate, sumptuous appreciation of Wright's 1936 house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania...[Kaufmann] is able to explain the intentions of architect and client, and writes with both feeling and critical knowledge, having lived in and with the masterpiece all his life. A work of loving scholarship, beautifully presented, Fallingwater is highly recommended for all collections. , "...never has [Kaufmann's] account been so astute and revealing, and never has the resulting building been so brilliantly portrayed as in this volume...As the reader views Fallingwater in a series of stunning illustrations, Kaufmann gives a more intimate view of what the house has meant to him personally and what role it has played in assuring Wright an enduring place in architectural history." -- Booklist "An engaging, intimate, sumptuous appreciation of Wright's 1936 house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania...[Kaufmann] is able to explain the intentions of architect and client, and writes with both feeling and critical knowledge, having lived in and with the masterpiece all his life. A work of loving scholarship, beautifully presented, Fallingwater is highly recommended for all collections." -- Library Journal, ...never has [Kaufmann's] account been so astute and revealing, and never has the resulting building been so brilliantly portrayed as in this volume...As the reader views Fallingwater in a series of stunning illustrations, Kaufmann gives a more intimate view of what the house has meant to him pers

• Publisher: Abbeville Press, Incorporated
• Year: 1987
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780896596627
• Condition: Fine

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