Gwathmey Siegel, Apartments [INSCRIBED]
New York: Rizzoli, 2004. First edition. Large quarto (12-1/4" x 10-1/2"). 276pp. Later acetate over wraparound color photo dust jacket, spine lettered in white, over black cloth with spine lettered in silver. Profusely illustrated with color photographs and apartment ground plans. Inscribed and signed by the architect Charles Gwathmey on the front free endpaper, dated 15 Dec. 04. A fine, as new copy.
Gwathmey Siegel, the award-winning New York-based firm, is acclaimed for its extraordinary houses as well as its high-profile cultural, corporate, and educational work. In the tradition of the highly successful Gwathmey Siegel: Buildings and Projects (Vols. 1 & 2), Rizzoli now presents Gwathmey Siegel: Apartments. Gwathmey Siegel has long been the architect of choice for clients who want to combine extravagance with an intellectually rigorous, well-crafted modernism. While the houses. For which they are so justly renowned often exceed 20,000 square feet, the apartments they have designed are frequently one-tenth that size. The work, however, does not suffer from this reduction in scale, rather it takes on a stunning intensity-as if the ideas encompassed in the bigger houses are in the apartments compressed into tight, concentrated forms. Expressing an unsurpassed level of detail and craftsmanship, the 17 apartments featured in this monograph document the evolution of. The firm's design ethos over 30 years of practice from a minimalist modernism to what has sometimes been described as baroque modernism. (OCLC)
Contents: Dunaway Apartment, 1969 -- New York Apartment, 1971 -- Unger Apartment, 1975 -- Swid Apartment I, 1976 -- Geffen Apartment, 1977 -- Arango Apartment, 1981 -- Spielberg Apartment, 1983 -- Swid Apartment II, 1983 -- Gwathmey Apartment, 1988 -- Koppelman/Sobel Apartment, 1989 -- Park Avenue Apartment, 1995 -- Fifth Avenue Apartment, 1997 -- Steel loft, 2001 -- Central Park West Apartment, 2001 -- Gymnasium Apartment, 2001 -- Miranova Penthouse, 2002 -- Central Park South Apartment, 2003 -- Project chronology. Item #51142
ISBN: 9780847826865
Price: $75.00