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ISBN 9781568983219
Publication date 5/1/2003
10.25 x 8 inches (26.0 x 20.3 cm), Hardcover
128 pages, 25 color illustrations, 60 b/w illustrations
Rights: World;
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The Bra. The Box Kite. The Cat. The Milk Carton. The Reclining Picasso. These are the playful names given to the eccentric beach houses of Andrew Geller. Built in the 1950s and 1960s, these whimsical vacation homes reflected the idea of summer leisure for a generation more concerned with fun on the beach than ostentatious display. For clients in the Hamptons, on the Jersey shore, and in New England, Geller built dozens of houses, most of wood and most on modest budgets. Geller, who worked with Raymond Loewy and directed the design of such modernist landmarks as the Lever House in New York, combined a modern interest in light, breeze, and functional living with playful form-making. These spirited houses, many shown here for the first time through vintage photographs and drawings, still delight today and will inspire anyone interested in beach house living.
Alastair Gordon is a contributing editor at House & Garden and a regular contributor to the New York Times. He is the author of Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons and resides in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Editorial Reviews
Dwell:
"With engaging text and original photos, this book looks at the storiesbehind Geller's designs."
Building Design (UK):
"Great vintage photographs."
Metropolis:
"BEACH HOUSES is a wonderful example of how a single historian can rescue an artist from obscurity. . . The book is a wistful celebration of a lost erawhen the world was a much bigger place and oceanfront property a relatively affordable commodity."
The Los Angeles Times:
"[BEACH HOUSES] rebuts the notion that bigger houses mean better lives."
Just Your Basic Little Beach Bungalow, The Southampton Press:
". . . [a] handsome, beautifully illustrated book. . ."
Metropolitan Home:
"It's a scrapbook of the '50s and '60s that celebrates the career of the man who helped bring beach houses into the 20th century."
Time Out New York:
". . . flip through BEACH HOUSES, Alastair Gordon's book of drawings and photographs of Geller-designed seaside homes in Amagansett and East Hampton. One day, you'll have your own."
Wallpaper:
"Shore Thing. Today's bloated Hampton mansions are far removed from thepioneering spirit embodies by the original seaside second homes. When NewYorkers first escaped to this idyllic sliver of land, the 1950s and 1960ssaw architectural innovation, not conspicuous consumption. Local expertAlastair Gordon takes you back to a time when small was still beautiful.Beach house pioneer Andrew Geller has since been cruelly overlooked. Thefun forms and clever use of space of his compact, wood-built designs don'tlend themselves to a heaving house party, but they definitely cut a certaindash."
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