Benjamin Baldwin : an autobiography in design / foreword by Michael Rubin.

Main entry:

Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993.

Title & Author:

Benjamin Baldwin : an autobiography in design / foreword by Michael Rubin.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

199 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"A Norton Professional book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 198).
The beginnings -- The roof over my head -- Non-residential spaces -- Details -- Furniture and products -- Rooms without roofs -- Afterword / by Kitty Weese. -- Chronology of the life of Benjamin Baldwin -- Design work.

Summary:

Benjamin Baldwin: An Autobiography in Design provides a comprehensive survey of the work of the man whom architect Louis Kahn called "the dean of American interior designers." Trained as an architect at Princeton, Baldwin also studied with Hans Hofmann and with Eliel Saarinen at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. After a brief partnership with architect Harry Weese in Chicago, he worked in the New York office of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, before launching an independent practice. His career spanned a period of over fifty years, from 1940 to 1991. In 1985 he was designated a charter member of Interior Design magazine's Hall of Fame. Extensively illustrated, the text explores the early influences on Baldwin's development and illustrates his design principles by focusing first on the houses and apartments he designed for himself and then on his work for clients, both residential and non-residential. A final chapter is devoted to the aspect of his work that he felt represented the ultimate form of creativity - garden design.

ISBN:

3930701980
0393701980
9780393701982

Subject:

Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993.
Baldwin, Benjamin 1913-1993
Baldwin, Benjamin.
Interior decorators United States Biography.
Décorateurs d'intérieurs États-Unis Biographies.
Interior decorators.
Interior decorators United States 20th century Biography.
United States.
Interiors Design

Form/genre:

Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 155214
Call No.: NA44.B181.A2 1995
Status: Available

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