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Longue Vue House and Gardens
Carol McMichael Reese
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Description for Longue Vue House and Gardens
Hardcover. The stunning interiors and glorious gardens of New Orleans's unrivaled jewel and architectural masterpiece. Longue Vue House and Gardens Num Pages: 224 pages, 200 colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 298 x 241 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1837.
The stunning interiors and glorious gardens of New Orleans's unrivaled jewel and architectural masterpiece. Longue Vue House and Gardens, accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and listed as a national historic landmark, was designed and built between 1934 and 1942 by landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman and architects Charles and William Platt for Edgar Bloom and Edith Rosenwald Stern, New Orleans's foremost mid-twentieth-century philanthropists and civil-rights activists. The mansion and its surrounding eight acres of garden spaces, with varied designs ranging from the formal to the wild, draw upon Southern architectural traditions and native Louisiana flora, even as they ... Read more
The stunning interiors and glorious gardens of New Orleans's unrivaled jewel and architectural masterpiece. Longue Vue House and Gardens, accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and listed as a national historic landmark, was designed and built between 1934 and 1942 by landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman and architects Charles and William Platt for Edgar Bloom and Edith Rosenwald Stern, New Orleans's foremost mid-twentieth-century philanthropists and civil-rights activists. The mansion and its surrounding eight acres of garden spaces, with varied designs ranging from the formal to the wild, draw upon Southern architectural traditions and native Louisiana flora, even as they ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications United States
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1839g
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847846511
SKU
V9780847846511
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Ref
99-15
About Carol McMichael Reese
Carol McMichael Reese is the Christovich Associate Professor in the Tulane School of Architecture, where she offers courses in architectural history and theory. Her books and articles focus on contemporary architecture and urban planning in the Americas. She has also served on the board of directors of Longue Vue since 2004. Thaisa Way is a landscape historian who teaches history, ... Read more
Reviews for Longue Vue House and Gardens
This fantastic house history takes us through the past and present of one of New Orleans' greatest architectural treasures, with vintage illustrations and photos. . . -The New Orleans Advocate LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS captures an important moment in American house and garden design
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