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255 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Once proposed as the "Commissioner of Beauty" for New York City, Stanford White was a master of architecture, interior design and ornament, fearlessly juxtaposing materials and objects from myriad cultures and times. Drawing on precedents from antiquity and the Renaissance, from Asia, the Middle East and Europe as well as colonial America, White created complex surfaces inside and out. Stanford White in Detail examines this innovative and intricate web through lush, tightly framed vignettes of carved wood and marble, metalwork, mosaic and tile as well as generous overall room views to demonstrate how these are woven together for a unique effect.
Introduction -- Designing with light and texture -- Inventing a vocabulary -- First formal -- Experiments -- At the top of his game -- Captions.
Samuel G. White ; photographs by Jonathan Wallen.