Stanford White, Architect - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stanford White, Architect write by Samuel G. White. This book was released on 2008. Stanford White, Architect available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Stanford White (1853-1906), arguably the most celebrated American architect of his day, was the visionary genius of the illustrious architecture firm McKim, Mead White. A defining figure of the Gilded Age, White lived an extravagant life, which ended prematurely in a sensational death. His celebrity as a result was such that perceptions of the man have to some degree distracted attention from an extraordinary body of work. Now, more than a century since his passing, the enduring quality of White's architectural legacy becomes ever more apparent as the circumstances of his life and death fade to the background. In acknowledgment of this legacy, Stanford White Architect comprehensively explores White's sumptuously rich oeuvre - from the residences he designed for himself and his wife, Bessie; to the extraordinary and opulent houses he designed for others; to those works beyond the residential. Stanford White Architect will serve for generations to come as a vivid testament to a resplendent life in architecture."--From book jacket.
Stanny
Stanny - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stanny write by Paul R. Baker. This book was released on 1989. Stanny available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Baker, working with previously unpublished materials, breathes new life into this legendary man who dominated American architecture at the turn of the twentieth century and gained infamy in the sensational manner of his death and the subsequent trial of his murderer. 50 black-and-white photos.
The Architect of Desire
The Architect of Desire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Architect of Desire write by Suzannah Lessard. This book was released on 1997. The Architect of Desire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this extraordinary story the author digs and digs until she finds the whole story. Along the way she discovers that not only was her great-grandfather murdered by the husband of Evelyn Nesbitt, a showgirl at the time, who was enraged with jealously, only to be acquitted on the grounds of insanity, but that the repercussions of this event and of her great-grandfather's behaviour on the rest of the family and its subsequent generations was devastating. Throughout the gripping narrative snippets of information about Stanford are woven into the incredible tale of the author's own upbringing and the whole family. By the end the story of the murder and its sordid circumstances are revealed. A beautifully written and extraordinary powerful book.
American Eve
American Eve - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Eve write by Paula Uruburu. This book was released on 2008-05-01. American Eve available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The scandalous story of America’s first supermodel, sex goddess, and modern celebrity—Evelyn Nesbit. By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 1900, Evelyn Nesbit was known to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and whose innocent sexuality was used to sell everything from chocolates to perfume. Women wanted to be her. Men just wanted her. But when Evelyn’s life of fantasy became all too real and her insanely jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her lover, New York City architect Stanford White, the most famous woman in the world became infamous as she found herself at the center of the “Crime of the Century” and a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity, and sex.
Stanford White's New York
Stanford White's New York - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stanford White's New York write by David Lowe. This book was released on 1999. Stanford White's New York available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part architectural retrospective, part biography, and part cultural and social history, this volume is both a brilliant evocation of White's life and times and a portfolio of unforgettable images of his priceless legacy to New York. 141 illustrations.
