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Edward Durell Stone: Modernism's Populist Architect Hardcover – November 26, 2012

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“Colossus,” “visionary,” “giant” are superlatives used in the mid-twentieth century to describe Edward Durell Stone (1902–1978), a celebrity architect whose wholly unique modern aesthetic of “new romanticism” played a crucial role in defining middle-class culture.

Framed between the Great Depression and the oil embargo of the early 1970s, the distinguished career of the native Arkansan is represented on four continents, in thirteen foreign countries, and in thirty-two states―his masterpiece the American Embassy chancery (1953–59) in New Delhi, India. Recognized in his prime as one of the nation’s most sought-after architects, Stone’s vast and prestigious workload brought prosperity on a scale rare in architecture in his time; after the death of Frank Lloyd Wright, some supporters thought Stone seemed destined to take the place of his personal hero and close friend as the great national architect.

But Stone also drew divergent reactions. Such International Style buildings as his Museum of Modern Art (1935–39) in New York City, an austere, unornamented volume, won critical approval; in contrast, his monumental postwar architecture―the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (1958–71) in Washington, DC, among the best known―exposed popular tastes by offering a broader definition of Modernism inclusive of decoration.

Enhanced interest in Stone’s architecture has been spurred by the reconsideration of a number of his buildings. The former Gallery of Modern Art (1958–64) at 2 Columbus Circle in New York City, which was lost to a near complete makeover, stimulated vigorous and at times contentious discussion that made evident the need for an objective reassessment. His legacy―of giving form to the aspirations of the emerging consumer culture and of reconciling Modernism with the dynamism of the age―is established in Edward Durell Stone: Modernism’s Populist Architect. 125 illustrations

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"[T]horoughly researched, well-documented, highly illustrated book. Hunting’s is the first dispassionate account of Stone’s career: a scholarly complement to the two autobiographical tomes Stone penned in the 1960s and the biography recently published by his youngest son. . . . [A]n enthusiastic and well-written biography."
― Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

"The highs and lows of Stone’s career are meticulously laid out in this well-researched monograph . . . . The projects documented in this compendium certainly convinced this reviewer that Stone’s massive achievements do indeed merit a thoughtful reappraisal. . . . What author Hunting has given us is a well-told, well-documented and well-illustrated story of a talented designer’s lifelong striving to shape an architecture that satisfied both his inner vision and his clients’ desires."
― Traditional Building

"Given its depth of research and fairness, this will be the definitive book on Stone for years to come."
― Cerise Press

"As Mary Anne Hunting’s book makes clear . . . Stone tapped into a widespread desire – shared by the design professions and the public – for an easily understood Modernism, a Modernism that would challenge stark functionalism with the sensuous, the luxurious, and occasionally the monumental. . . . One of the virtues of Hunting’s book is its inclusion of numerous little-known projects, such as the furniture line and some modest houses, that shed light on the development of Stone – and of the design world generally."
― officeinsight

"[M]easured and methodical in its singular argument that Stone is underestimated and unfairly maligned in the profession. . . . Hunting’s admirable and meticulous research is shown in the range of information she has gleaned from sources high and low."
― DOCOMOMO

"In reassessing Stone's important contributions to American Modernism Hunting's meticulously documented text also brings to life his charm and colorful personality. . . . [T]he book immerses the reader in Stone's milieu and strengthens one's understanding of just how much he accomplished in bringing modernism to Everyman."
― Antiques

"Architecture lovers who believe Romantic Modernism is an oxymoron clearly haven’t read Mary Anne Hunting’s exquisitely written volume on America’s forgotten populist modern architect Edward Durell Stone. . . . Hunting’s approach reveals Stone’s technicolour dream with absolute perfection. This is a volume for the serious architecture lover and those in search of a brilliantly written biography."
― Identity

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Architectural historian Mary Anne Hunting received her doctorate from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and a master’s degree in the history of decorative arts and design from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum/Parsons School of Design. She lives in New York City with her husband and twin children.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (November 26, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393733017
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393733013
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.82 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.8 x 0.8 x 10.3 inches

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David W.

A Star(chitect) Is Reborn

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2012

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This book will change the way you look at the modern world. Edward Durell Stone has been out of fashion for a while, with his Kennedy Center derided as a kitschy Kleenex Box on the Potomac, but this superb reappraisal shows why he made the cover of Time as one of the first starchitects. His influence and range are amazing. How did a good ol' boy from Fayetteville, Arkansas, get so far? In New York there's the grand foyer and auditorium of Radio City Music Hall, the Museum of Modern Art, the GM Building, the "Lollilop Building" on Columbus Circle that Tom Wolfe fought unsuccessfully to save. There's the National Geographic Building in Washington, the Standard Oil building in Chicago, the Mon-View housing development outside Pittsburgh, plus embassies and museums and houses around the world (including his own bizarre townhouse with his trademark grille on East 64th Street).

He was a modern architect who rebelled against the bleakness of modernism and became a "rational romantic," as Hunting nicely summarizes his style. Her prose and the many photographs give a beautiful sense of how Stone's work and life progressed -- from building to building, PR coup to PR coup, wife to wife. His shrewdest publicist was his second wife, "gorgeous Maria," who made him start using his middle name in the manner of Frank Lloyd Wright. The two architects, who became friends, had a lot in common, as Hunting deftly observes: "Both had tumultuous relationships with women and illicit romantic liaisons, knew how to exploit the media (with the help of their artful wives), had expensive tastes and perpetual financial troubles, put forth a public persona with a contrived personal narrative, and saw themselves as outside the mainstream of their profession." There's been plenty written about Wright. Stone deserves his turn. Hunting gives him rightful due -- and does it so well that even longtime haters of the Kennedy Center will look at it with new eyes.

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In depth

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2021

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Exhaustedly researched and extremely well documented

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Ernest E. Jacks

Internationalist apostate

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 8, 2013

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The story of America's first true International Style apostate, Mary Anne Hunting's book paints Stone's conscious steps toward elaboration and an emphasis on the decorative quality of functional elements as a pandering to the public in the eyes of High Modern critics and historians.

The book records Stone's early success with Internationalist houses, as well as his Museum of Modern Art, and his gradual disenchantment with that spare aesthetic in favor of a warmer, more personal vernacular which he had found in Middle and Western America. His vast subsequent work, primarily educational, civic, medical, and institutional, is both Classical and International, though increasingly enlivened by a richness bordering on the Byzantine.

His banishment by academicians and the art and architecture bureaucracy has effectively denied Stone his proper place in the stream of architectural history. Knowledgeable analyses such as that of this book could spark a reappraisal of the man and his work.

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visionary

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Live the story of a visionary in touch with his time and place. In reality, architects never finish their work....and this book is relevant proof of that.

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T.Strauss

Best Book Available About this Great Architect

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2012

Really a great book. Frankly, I couldn't put it down. I had no idea that Edward Durell Stone was the architect of the GM building in New York (in front of which stands the 24-hour Apple Store with the big glass cube above it), the original MoMA and the Kennedy Center. Now I even appreciate the building I previously never liked at 2 Columbus Circle, that now houses the Museum of Art and Design. This book was a pleasure to read, written with an absorbing writing style that tells a wonderful story, accompanied by so many great photographs of Stone's masterpieces. If you enjoy architecture you will thoroughly enjoy this book.

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Jill Lord

America's First Starchitect

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2012

A self-styled "starchitect" in the mode of Frank Lloyd Wright, Stone's work is familiar to many but has not been given a thorough examination. Hunting does so in this book. She situates Stone's work within the Modernist firmament. Her book is well-written, insightful and filled with lavish illustrations (although I would have liked to see heavier, glossy paper). Hunting includes lots of detail and references to popular culture which make this book surprisingly easy to read. It would make a great gift for anyone interested in architecture!

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