Greene & Greene

London, England: Phaidon, 2000. Hardcover. VG (shelf-wear to boards. small indentation to lower board edge. spine spongy; textblock & pgs firm/intact. spine ends bumped. slight split to textblock; glue & binding still firm. dustjacket has light wear, lower spine has three small specks of foxing/soiling). blue, striped cloth boards w/ black printing & black spine printing. illustrated pastedowns & endpapers. 240 pgs w/ bw & color illustrations. grey pictorial dustjacket w/ white & green printing. Remains a nice, bright copy. Wonderfully illustrated. "Following the lead of the chronology of their intertwined personal and professional lives, the monograph begins with how the two brothers were raised to be architects and to practice together. they were sent to MIT (then the finest architecture school in America), where their natural artistic skills were combined with an excellent technical grounding, before apprenticing with liberal architects in Boston. After establishing their own practice together they quickly allied themselves with the progressive Arts and Craft movement, a movement they were soon to be shaping as much as responding to. Their distinctive and innovative designs were all-encompassing, treating every component of a house (both inside and out) as an element to be designed. Their work drew prestigious and wealthy clients, but their high fees and exacting (and therefore slow) process eventually led to the break down of their joint practice. the projects of their individual offices, while excellent examples of the Arts and Crafts style, never reached the same aesthetic and architectural level as the fruits of their symbiotic partnership."--Publisher.