Building The Frick Collection : an Introduction to the House and its Collections

New York: The Frick Collection, 2006. Hardcover. Brown paper boards with gold gilt lettering, illustrated flyleaves, black and color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, 128 pp., color illustrations. VG/VG- (book shows minimal shelf wear, all pages clear and intact - minor shelf wear at edges). Item #160482
ISBN: 9781857593815

"Although there have been many books devoted to Henry Clay Frick and The Frick Collection, none as yet has sought to document the building at 1 East 70th Street and to explore how the creation of this residence influenced the taste of the collection in the final years of his life. Using recently acquired and hiterto unpublished archival material, Colin B. Bailey carefully documents the history of the house and its owner and reveals for the first time Frick's passionate involvement in the project. By drawing upon recent studies of domestic architecture and interior decoration during the Gilded Age, Bailey sets Frick's achievement in context. Elegantly written and lavishly illustrated, Building The Frick Collection is intended for a general readership while also making an important contribution to the history of collecting in twentieth-century New York." - dust jacket description.

OCLC: 71655279

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