David Adler, Architect: The Elements of Style by Thorne, Martha

Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2002. Fine in fine dust jacket.. Early printing of this lavishly-illustrated assessment of American architect David Adler's elegant buildings, which incorporate a number of historic styles. The prosperity of the Roaring '20s brought Adler's practice to prominence, and he injected unique personalities into all of his structures: "style provided expression, identity, and meaning [...] no house was ever intended to be a literal copy" (31). 11'' x 9.75''. Original black cloth boards. Original unclipped (no price) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white. 224 pages. Jacket with a touch of bumping to corners. Else bright and sharp.

Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago in association with Yale University Press, 2002. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Fine in near fine(+) jacket, with mild dimpling to rear panel/fine. Folio in black color illus jacket; 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm ||bibliographical references (pages 216-217) and index. Contents: Foreword / Robert A.M. Stern -- Preface / James N. Wood -- Styles of David Adler / Richard Guy Wilson -- Interiors with panache: the collaboration of David Adler and Frances Elkins / Pauline C. Metcalf -- David Adler: benefactor and trustee / Ghenete Zelleke -- Work of David Adler / Martha Thorne, ed. || "American architect David Adler's designs reflected the enormous range of his stylistic expression, from Stuart-style and English half-timber stately residences to a Colonial New England farm house. Beautifully illustrated with new and archival photographs accompanied by architectural plans, this book features seventeen important homes and a… Read More