Fallingwater - a Frank Lloyd Wright Country House 1986 1st Ed. Large Hardcover Book

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Fallingwater - a Frank Lloyd Wright Country House.
Vintage 1986 1st Edition Modernism Architecture Large Hardcover Book.
DIMENSIONS: 9.75ʺW × … more Fallingwater - a Frank Lloyd Wright Country House.
Vintage 1986 1st Edition Modernism Architecture Large Hardcover Book.
DIMENSIONS: 9.75ʺW × 13.25ʺD × 1.25ʺH
Fallingwater - A Frank Llyod Wright Country House, rare vintage 1986 first edition Modernism architecture collector's large hardcover book with dust jacket is a very special and unique book to add to your library collection. The cloth covered boards, monochrome embossed cover titles book is published by Abbeville Press Publishers New York, Printed in Japan in 1986, authored by Edgar Kaufmann Jr., with an introduction by Mark Girouard. It features outstanding beautiful photographs by Christopher Little and Thomas A. Heinz.
Considered Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic masterpiece, Fallingwater is recognized worldwide as the paradigm of organic architecture. Here, in beautiful photographs, the first as-built measured plans, and an intimate narrative by a key figure, is the fascinating story of this masterwork.

" Fallingwater " is the most famous Modern house in America. Considered to be Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic masterpiece, the house in its remote mountain site in Pennsylvania is recognized worldwide as the paradigm of organic architecture, where a building becomes an integral part of its natural setting.

This provocative book is the work of the man best qualified to undertake it, who was both apprentice to Wright and son of the man who commissioned the house. This book is a personal, intimate record of one man's fifty year relationship to a work of Modernism architectural genius. originally published in 1986 presented in celebration of Fallingwater's 50th anniversary.
Special features of this volume include: numerous never-before published photographs of the house under construction, during its entire history, and of the family in residence; a room-by-room pictorial survey in full color taken especially for this volume; isometric architectural perspectives that explain visually how the house was constructed; and the first accurate, measured plans of the house as built

The large format rare 1st edition, 5th printing collector's Modernism architecture book measures 9 3/4" W X 13 1/4" H X 1.25" D, with 190 pages, 113 illustrations including 100 color photos, black & white photos, illustrations and plans. It is in excellent " like new " vintage condition consistent with age and light signs of handling.
If anybody were most qualified to write about Fallingwater, it would be Edgar Kaufmann Jr., son of the client, apprentice to Wright, part-time occupant of the house for 27 years, and heir who donated it to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy. Logically then, this large-format book has Kaufmann's recollections, as well as photos by Christopher Little (the photographer of choice for the building), some beautiful drawings in color, and much more. It is a fitting balance of Kaufmann the client's son and Kaufmann the architectural historian. less