An Eloquent Modernist: E. Stewart Williams, Architect
by Williams, Sidney
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0692216898
- ISBN 13
- 9780692216897
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About This Item
Palm Springs, CA, : Palm Springs Art Museum,, 2014. This is a fine hardcover copy with a fine dust jacket with no wear at all. Completely clean, no marks. This monograph was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum, from November 9, 2014 to February 22, 2015. Emerson Stewart Williams (1909- 2005) was born into a family of architects, his father first being asked to design a commercial shopping center in Palm Springs in the 1930's. E. Stewart Williams was in Raymond Loewy's office during the late 1930's and worked on the 1939 New York World's Fair. His first residential commission in 1947 in Palm Springs for Frank Sinatra was a ranch house style similar to work being done by Richard Neutra and Albert Frey in the Palm Springs area. Essays by Lauren Weiss Bricker, Elizabeth Edwards Harris, Erin Hyman, Vilker M. Welter, Sidney Williams and Wim de Wit. Project List. Bibliography. Illustrated in black & white with many vintage photographs, also color. 11" high X 12" wide, 209 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Design Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018262
- Title
- An Eloquent Modernist: E. Stewart Williams, Architect
- Author
- Williams, Sidney
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0692216898
- ISBN 13
- 9780692216897
- Publisher
- Palm Springs Art Museum,
- Place of Publication
- Palm Springs, CA,
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- E. Stewart Williams, Palm Springs Architecture
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