Author: PENNOYER, PETER AND WALKER, ANNE
Title: The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury
Description: New York, W W Norton. 2009, First Edition. Green Cloth with dust jacket, 310mm. x 240mm. Book, 288 pages, colour & b/w illustrations, plans, bibliography. Grosvenor Atterbury (1869-1956) produced more than one hundred major projects, including an array of grand mansions, picturesque estates, informal summer cottages, and farm groups. However, it was his role as town planner and civic leader and his work to create model tenements, hospitals, workers' housing, and town plans for which he is most celebrated. His Forest Hills Gardens, designed in association with the Olmsted Brothers, is lauded as one of the most highly significant community planning projects of its time. Minor wear, unmarked. [732]. (ISBN: 9780393732221) , Very Good/Very Good.

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