Edith Wharton at Home
Life at the Mount
The Mount, Edith Wharton's country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth. The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book The Decoration of Houses, and the surrounding landscape displays her deep knowledge of Italian gardens. Wandering the grounds of this historic home, one can see the influence of Wharton's inimitable spirit in its architecture and design, just as one can sense the Mount's impact on the extraordinary life of Edith Wharton herself. The Mount sits in the…
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Weitere Autoren: Metcalf, Pauline C. / Arthur, John
- ISBN: 978-1-58093-328-5
- EAN: 9781580933285
- Produktnummer: 12317383
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Masse: H26.4 cm x B21.5 cm x D2.2 cm 1'040 g
- Gewicht: 1040
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Richard Guy Wilson is Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia and a foremost authority on the architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author of more than twenty books, most recently The Colonial Revival House and Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House. Pauline C. Metcalf is a noted architecture and design historian, as well as the chairman of The Mount's Interior Design Committee. She is the author of Ogden Codman and The Decoration of Houses and Syrie Maugham.John Arthur is a writer, independent curator, and photographer. Among his publications are Spirit of Place: Contemporary Landscape Painting & the American Tradition, Richard Estes: Painting and Prints, American Realism & Figurative Painting, Green Woods & Crystal Waters, and Theophilus Brown: Paintings, Drawings, and Collages. He is currently working on a monograph on Bernard Maybeck.
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