Greene & Greene Masterworks
Smith, Bruce; Vertikoff, Alexander (Photographer)
From Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
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Quantity: 1From Craig Olson Books, ABAA/ILAB, Belfast, ME, U.S.A.
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Quantity: 1About this Item
First Printing. 240 pp. 4to. Clean, crisp copy with slight sunning to front panel edges of dust jacket, now in mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 28589
Bibliographic Details
Title: Greene & Greene Masterworks
Publisher: Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Vertikoff, Alexander (Photographer)
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition.
About this title
Rarely in a Greene and Greene house is there an abrupt division between inside and out. One enters by transitions, in stages. Brick steps my lead up from the garden to a porch. Shelter comes from a gabled overhang or sleeping porch that extends from above--one is covered but still able to feel the breeze. The pattern in the door's art glass evokes the natural world being left behind. Stepping inside, one still does not feel totally enclosed; across the entrance hall are doorways framing a vista of gardens beyond.After exploring the details, they move on to the houses themselves, looking at 24 houses ranging from the modest, unassuming Brandt-Serrurier House in Altedena--a single story cottage built in 1905--to their greatest creation, The Gamble House in Pasadena. A short history and examination of details is given to each house, but by and large the houses are allowed to speak for themselves through dazzling photos. One of the most striking features of each house is the honey-colored light that fills each room as it pours through Japanese-inspired stained glass chandeliers and is reflected from rich mahogany and teak floors and furniture. To walk through a Greene & Greene house was to walk through a work of fine art. As Henry Greene said, "The idea was to eliminate everything unnecessary, to make the whole as direct and simple as possible, but always with the beautiful in mind as the first goal." As Greene & Greene: Masterworks clearly shows, they succeeded brilliantly. --Laszlo Simonyi
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