A Monograph of the Work of Architecture of McKim, Mead & White, 1879-1915 (4 volume set)

McKim Mead & White

New York : Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1915-1920.

First edition. 4 volume set. Folios; 51 cm.  3/4 cloth portfolios.  Plates loose, as issued.  Scattered staining to edges.  Library stamps to plates of third volume.   400 plates.   

A monograph of the work of the firm of McKim, Mead and White, which played a major role in the development of the classical revival in American architecture. Headed by Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead, and Stanford White, the firm designed many of America's iconic buildings including: Madison Square Garden, New York University, Columbia University, Library of J. Pierpont Morgan, Tiffany and Co, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pennsylvania R.R. Station, the Boston Public Library, the Harvard Club, Rhode Island State Capitol, the home Joseph Pulitzer, the White House Renovation of 1903, etc.  

Their work applied the principles of Beaux-Arts architecture, the adoption of the classical Greek and Roman stylistic vocabulary as filtered through the Parisian Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and the related City Beautiful movement after 1893 or so. Its vision was to clean up the visual confusion of American cities and imbue them with a sense of order and formality during America's Gilded Age. See: Broderick, Mosette (2010), Triumvirate: McKim, Mead & White: Art, Architecture, Scandal, and Class in America's Gilded Age. 

  This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.