Author: PHILIP JOHNSON; RICHARD PAYNE; HILARY LEWIS; STEPHEN FOX
Title: The Architecture of Philip Johnson
Description: Boston, Bulfinch Press. 2002, 1st. (ISBN: 0821227882). Hard, Folio. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2002, first printing. Folio, 11 1/4" x 13 7/8", 330pp. illustrated with 390 four-color and b/w photographs. Black cloth with white spine titles and blind emboss cover. gray endpapers. "A lavish monograph on the American architect who helped to codify the International Style in architecture and, later, post-modernism. "With a foreword by Johnson himself, an essay by his biographer Hilary Lewis, and nearly 400 color and black-and-white photographs accompanied by detailed building descriptions presented in chronological order, this is the book on Philip Johnson's architecture. The photographs were taken by Richard Payne, one of Johnson's personal photographers, who set out to document all extant buildings designed by this most celebrated visionary. Johnson has produced a life's work full of surprises and groundbreaking ideas that have shaped the way we live, work, and play, from the sculpture garden at New York's Museum of Modern Art to his famous Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut." Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good Plus.

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