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This book chronicles the career of Bernard Maybeck (1862-1957), one of the most innovative and influential architects in the Arts and Crafts movement. Raised in Greenwich Village and trained in Paris, Maybeck spent most of his long career in northern California. An irrespressible bohemian with no desire to run a large office, he designed mainly houses, with two notable exceptions: the brilliant Church of Christ, Scientist, and the gloriously romantic Palace of Fine Arts. This book features in full colour Maybeck's exquisite interiors and exteriors and analyzes every aspect of his work. Presenting not only his architecture but also his furniture, his lighting designs, and his innovations in fire-resistant construction, it includes documentary photographs. This aims to be a major study of an internationally significant architect whose environmentally responsive work has much to offer to today's designers. Also included is an illustrated catalogue of buildings by Maybeck.

Table of Contents:
Table of Contents from Bernard Maybeck Introduction Foundations Simple Homes and Clubhouses The Hearst Commissions The Church and the Palace Mid-Career Houses Projects for Earle C. Anthony After the Fire Notes Acknowledgments Buildings and Projects by Bernard Maybeck Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Sally B. Woodbridge, who lives in Berkeley, California, is an architectural critic and historian whose previous books include Bay Area Houses. Richard Barnes is a San Francisco based photographer who divides his time between commissioned work and personal projects. Noted for his photographs of work by Julia Morgan and other architects, he is currently photographing the Egyptian City of the Dead.

Review :
Praise for Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect: "One of the unclassifiable originals in American architecture--along with Frank Furness, Bruce Goff, and, today, Frank Gehry--Bernard Maybeck (1862-1957) devised a completely personal vocabulary of building, assembling a harmonious whole from an unlikely array of unusual forms and inventive details...Richard Barnes's ravishing photographs are the first to convey in color the complex splendors of Maybeck's inimitable achievement, and they succeed with appropriate vigor and warmth. Likewise, Sally B. Woodbridge's sympathetic text shows considerable understanding of this Whitmanesque figure." - Martin Filler, New York Times Book Review "This excellent biography thoroughly documents the often fantastic and always interesting work of California architect Bernard Maybeck...Highly recommended for collections of architecture, design, and art." - Library Journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781558592803
  • Publisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
  • Publisher Imprint: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.
  • Height: 290 mm
  • No of Pages: 248
  • Weight: 1790 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1558592806
  • Publisher Date: 17 Dec 1992
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Visionary Architect
  • Width: 259 mm


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