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

Chicago, IL and New Haven, CT: The Art Institute of Chicago in association with Yale University Press, 2002. Second printing. Hardcover. 224 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the The Art Institute of Chicago. A look at this important architect that examines 17 homes and a club designed by Adler. Foreword by Robert A.M. Stern. Features essays by Richard Guy Wilson, Pauline C. Metcalf, and Ghenete Zelleke. Includes new color photographs by Bob Harr and Hedrich Blessing. Includes 265 illustrations with 104 color and 161 quadratones. A clean and tight near fine copy in black cloth boards in a very near fine dust jacket.

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.

Yale University Press. hardcover. New. In shrink wrap.