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Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect
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Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect Hardcover - 1992

by Woodbridge, Sally Byrne

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  • Title Bernard Maybeck: Visionary Architect
  • Author Woodbridge, Sally Byrne
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Abbeville Press, New York
  • Date 1992-01-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0003348343
  • ISBN 9781558592803 / 1558592806
  • Weight 3.62 lbs (1.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.27 x 11.52 x 1.04 in (26.09 x 29.26 x 2.64 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Architecture - United States - History -, Architecture - United States - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92012633
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.92

From the rear cover

Gracefully written and brilliantly illustrated, this handsome new volume captures the vision, the wit, and the down-to-earth inventiveness of one of the most influential and beloved architects of the early twentieth century. Raised in Greenwich Village and trained in Paris, Maybeck spent most of his long career in northern California. An irrepressible bohemian with no desire to run a large office, he spent much of his time designing houses for friends and family, as well as for other patrons so loyal that they often hired him to design more than one house. Maybeck also created two of the most beautiful buildings in all of California: the exhilarating Church of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, and the gloriously romantic Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco. This incisive overview - the first to feature color reproductions of Maybeck's exquisite interiors and exteriors - analyzes every aspect of his life and work. Not only is his architecture thoroughly discussed and illustrated but also his furniture, his lighting designs, and his innovations in fire-resistant construction. The book is also enlivened by documentary photographs, by clearly drawn plans, and by several of Maybeck's dazzling, previously unpublished visionary drawings. Bernard Maybeck is a major study of an internationally significant architect whose environmentally responsive work has much to offer today's designers and whose houses have given enormous pleasure to those fortunate enough to visit or dwell in them.

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  • Library Journal, 02/15/1993, Page 0

About the author

Sally B. Woodbridge, who lives in Berkeley, California, is an architectural critic and historian whose previous books include Bay Area Houses.

Richard Barnes is a San Francisco based photographer who divides his time between commissioned work and personal projects. Noted for his photographs of work by Julia Morgan and other architects, he is currently photographing the Egyptian City of the Dead.