Quick view Breuer: Basic Architecture MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: In 1956, TIME magazine called him one of the defining “form-givers of the 20th century.” Today, Marcel Breuer remains a locus classicus of modernism for architects and designers alike. From his landmark tubular furniture to “binuclear”... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Building The City Beautiful: The Benjamin Franklin Parkway And The Philadelphia Museum Of Art MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: David B. Brownlee (Author) Building the City Beautiful by historian David Brownlee, originally published in 1989, is the definitive book on the history of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Between 1871 and 1929, Philadelphia planned and... MSRP: Now: $29.95 Was: Quick view
Quick view Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley (Author), Peggy A. Olley (Author) with an essay by Jeffrey A. Cohen This handsome book explores in depth a group of stunning painted and gilded furniture designed by the architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, best known for... MSRP: Now: $35.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Eames: Basic Architecture MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: The creative duo Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser Eames transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also forerunners in architecture, textile design, photography, and film. The... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view F. L. Wright: Basic Architecture MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Acclaimed as the “father of skyscrapers,” the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting architectural equivalent and applied his idealism to... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Making A Modern Classic: The Architecture Of The Philadelphia Museum Of Art MSRP: Now: $22.00 Was: David B. Brownlee (Author), with a preface by Robert Venturi. Color photography by Graydon Wood. Architecture, art history, and city politics come together in this lively account of the evolution of the building that houses the Philadelphia Museum of Art... MSRP: Now: $22.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Meier: Basic Architecture MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Ever since his self-proclamation as part of the “New York Five,” Richard Meier has risen through one top commission after another to the dizzy heights of architectural stardom. From Madison Square Garden to Shenzhen, China, his sleek, luminously... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Munch: Basic Art 2.0 MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting The Scream, Edvard Munch created Mona Lisa for our times. The shriek of his iconic figure... MSRP: Now: $15.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide To The City MSRP: Now: $28.00 Was: By John Andrew Gallery Divided into four sections, Philadelphia Architecture proceeds chronologically from the founding of the city in 1682 into the early Federal period, through its industrialization in the 19th century and its growth as a metropolis... MSRP: Now: $28.00 Was: Quick view
Quick view Philadelphia: Portraits of the City MSRP: Now: $65.00 Was: "Our Philadelphia, as is all our history, is made of these moments: photographs and stories. And in our effort to find and delineate these moments we also recognized that we approached a sense of place. Circling ever closer to a shared... MSRP: Now: $65.00 Was: Quick view