{"product_id":"fallingwater-living-with-and-in-art-9780847842865","title":"Fallingwater: Living with and in Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn international treasure on the UNESCO World Heritage List, Fallingwater is a total work of art. This book, an exciting new look at a masterpiece, is a revelation for the first time seen here in its fullness.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDesigned by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufmann Sr., his wife, Liliane Kaufmann, and their son, Edgar Kaufmann jr., Fallingwater is lauded for its architectural daring and drama. Here the Kaufmanns sought to live in harmony with the natural world. The rooms of the house reflect this ideal and remain suffused with a natural aesthetic that embraces stone and wood, handwork and craftsmanship. In the living room, the great stone floor flows riverlike toward the horizon of Wright-designed built-in sofas and large-paned casement windows, where views open to balconies, to forest, and to cascading falls. From here \"the hatch\" opens to the flowing stream below. Pools and the waters of Bear Run were beautiful and for swimming. Relaxed elegance was the order of the day. Delicacy, softness, tactility are everywhere in evidence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis atmosphere pervades the whole and serves as an organic setting for the Kaufmanns' collection of objects, paintings, textiles, sculpture, and products of craft that enrich and awaken the corners and nooks, secreted here and there on the multiple layers and throughout the rooms of the house. But much more than the sum of its parts and what it holds, Fallingwater itself is art, total and sublime.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin Gunther \u003c\/b\u003eis Vice President of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and Director of Fallingwater. \u003cb\u003eScott W. Perkins \u003c\/b\u003eis Senior Director of Preservation and Collections at Fallingwater. \u003cb\u003eDave Bryce \u003c\/b\u003eis an architectural and interior design photographer with a reputation for capturing the beauty and essence of a space. \u003cb\u003eGlenn Adamson \u003c\/b\u003eis a curator, writer and historian. He has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design, and Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum. \u003cb\u003eDonald Albrecht \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent curator, author, and editor on topics pertaining to architecture and design and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. \u003cb\u003eCharlotte Ashby \u003c\/b\u003electures in art and design history in the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. \u003cb\u003eJeannine Falino \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent curator and author specializing in the intersection of craft, design, and American culture. \u003cb\u003eRebecca Hagen \u003c\/b\u003eis the Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer Director of Collections and Archives at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. \u003cb\u003eJames Oles \u003c\/b\u003eis a senior lecturer in Art History at Wellesley College and a specialist in modern Mexican art, with a focus on muralism and photography. \u003cb\u003eJennifer Way \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of Art History in the College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rizzoli Electa","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183470280978,"sku":"9780847842865","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1bb4d70a-ee73-48f2-92c2-46b571cde0b9.jpg?v=1744468150","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fallingwater-living-with-and-in-art-9780847842865","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}