The houses of McKim, Mead & White

New York: Rizzoli, 1998. Hardcover. VG (slight spine lean; textblock & pgs firm/intact. light scuffs to boards. dustjacket has light edge-wear; lower spine has rubbing & adhesive residue). Pictorial dj; mulberry cloth covers w/ gilt lettering. 252 pages w/ primarily color illustrations. With nearly one thousand commissions executed between 1879 and 1912, McKim, Mead & White was the architectural firm of choice of the most prestigious projects of the era, including the redesign of the White House and the Mall in Washington, D.C., and the campuses of Harvard and Columbia Universities. Among its residential clients were many of the most powerful figures of the Gilded Age-Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Pulitzers-for whom the firm built splendid summer cottages in Newport and throughout Long Island and the Hudson valley and sumptuous town houses in Boston, Washington, Baltimore and New York. More than thirty houses are presented here, their exteriors and interiors elegantly recorded in new color photographs. The book also provides the first look at the recent restoration of the Isaac Bell house in Newport and newly reinstalled Venetian room at the Payne Whitney house, now the French Cultural Services, in New York City.--From publisher description. Published in association with the Museums at Stony Brook in conjunction with the exhibition 'Stanford White on Long Island' 4 July-1 November 1998. Includes bibliographical references (page 250) and index. (Inventory #: 181274)