Light Screens. The Complete Leaded-Glass Windows of Frank Lloyd Wright
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 400pp. Original black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine; housed in black cloth slipcase with color plate laid to cover and gilt lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Color frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with predominantly color and b/w reproductions of photographs and drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright designs, including architectural drawings.
"Visionary and prolific, Frank Lloyd Wright conceived leaded-glass windows for almost every one of his buildings between 1885- and 1923, his most celebrated years. His output was prodigious: An estimated 4,365 window designs for over 160 structures, more than 100 of which were realized. Here Julie L. Sloan presents the largest gathering of these windows ever published." (Publisher)
"By the late 1880s, when Frank Lloyd Wright first used leaded-glass windows in his designs, the craft of stained glass was enjoying a revival in the United States that would ultimately surpass the previous heyday of the art form in the Middle Ages. By the turn of the century, when Wright was more fully exploring leaded glass as a medium for the expression of his designs] philosophies, American stained glass was at its zenith, where it would remain until around the First World War. His incorporation of leaded glass in his domestic architecture between 1886 and 1923 was neither unique nor unusual. Rather, he joined the ranks of leading architects and firms around the country who made ornamental glass an important part of their interior decorative schemes, including H. H. Richardson (1838-86), McKim, Mead and White, Frank Furness (1839-1912, and Louis Sullivan (1856-1924). Wright differed from these architects in his use of leaded glass, however, in the extent to which he used it -in virtually every opening in his buildings- and in his concern that its design harmonize with that of the house." (Sloan) One inch strip at front foredge of slipcase sunned. Near fine to Fine condition. Item #55458
ISBN: 0847823067
Price: $350.00