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Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959, examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world’s greatest architects and one of the world’s greatest cities dynamically coexisted. Authors Jane Hession and Debra Pickrel bring each of these unequalled characters to life, exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright’s often-voiced disdain of New York and his pride and pleasure in living in one of the city’s great landmarks: the Plaza Hotel.From his suite, or “Taliesin the Third,” as it became known, Wright supervised construction of the Guggenheim, sparred with the New York press, and received many famous visitors such as Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller.The book also includes a foreword by Mike Wallace of CBS News/60 Minutes fame, whose seminal interviews of Wright in the 1950s were two of his career favorites.Originally released in 2007, the book received the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards Gold Medal for Architecture. Now a specially revised 10th anniversary printing features a new postscript relaying the losses, gains, and alterations to Wright’s work in New York City since the book’s original publication, as well as enhanced photos and updated bios.
Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959, examines the momentous five-year period when one of the world’s greatest architects and one of the world’s greatest cities dynamically coexisted. Authors Jane Hession and Debra Pickrel bring each of these unequalled characters to life, exploring the fascinating contradiction between Wright’s often-voiced disdain of New York and his pride and pleasure in living in one of the city’s great landmarks: the Plaza Hotel. From his suite, or “Taliesin the Third,” as it became known, Wright supervised construction of the Guggenheim, sparred with the New York press, and received many famous visitors such as Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. The book also includes a foreword by Mike Wallace of CBS News/60 Minutes fame, whose seminal interviews of Wright in the 1950s were two of his career favorites. Originally released in 2007, the book received the 2008 Independent Publisher Awards Gold Medal for Architecture. Now a specially revised 10th anniversary printing features a new postscript relaying the losses, gains, and alterations to Wright’s work in New York City since the book’s original publication, as well as enhanced photos and updated bios.
There were few finer views in NewYork at mid-century than the panorama from Frank LloydWright’s second-floor corner suite at the Plaza Hotel. Beyond its tall arched windows facing Fifth Avenue and Central Park South, the city’s premier green space, Central Park, stretched north in one unbroken 843-acre swath.Along the east side of the park stood prestigious residences and great cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and “Millionaires’ Row,” once home to a procession of opulent turn-of-the century mansions built by some of NewYork’s wealthiest families.To the south, fashionable department stores and chic shops marched toward midtown.Thirty blocks to the north on Fifth Avenue, between East Eighty-Eighth and East Eighty-Ninth streets, stood the site upon which the Guggenheim Museum would soon begin to rise.
Foreword by Mike Wallace 6Introduction 8ONE “Taliesin East” At Home and At Work in New York 16TWO Battling the “Glass Box Boys”The Skyscraper and the City 32THREE Courting the New ConsumerForeign Automobiles and Domestic Designs 48FOUR In the SpotlightA Celebrity Among Celebrities 66FIVE Master of the MediumIn America”s Living Rooms 82SIX The Guggenheim RisingThe Spiral on Fifth Avenue 92SEVEN After WrightA New York Legacy 110Frank Lloyd Wright in New York City: A Chronology 124Acknowledgements 126Notes 128Bibliography 145Credits 151Index 152
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| Dimensions | 1 × 9 × 11 in |