The Houses of William Wurster: Frames for Living
Bew York City: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Printing.
Over a career that spanned 45 years, William Wurster (1895-1973) designed hundreds of residences up and down the West Coast. Like Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, with whom Wurster maintained a close professional exchange, his style blended modernism with the vernacular. Wurster was known to describe these homes as "frames for living": spaces that could be entered and fully transformed by the occupants to meet their needs and desires.
The book features 33 of the architect's best-known houses, including the Church House, Kenyon Cottage Apartments, Dondo House, Heller House, and the Baer House. Many of these projects are shown in color for the first time, with photographs by Ezra Stoller, Roger Sturtevant, Morley Baer, and Richard Barnes. With a foreword by architect Donyln Lyndon.
Item #902514ISBN: 9781616890285
9-1/4 x 11-1/4", pictorial paper over boards, 223pp, acknowledgments, primary professional collaborators, notes, selected bibliography, records of publication, illustration credits, index, fully illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Previous owner's bookplate first paste-down endpaper, else very fine, a clean tight, square, bright, and crisp copy.
Price: $200.00