Parish-Hadley: Sixty Years of American Design |  | Authors: Christopher Petkanas, Albert Hadley
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
Buy Used: $32.95
as of 9/10/2010 08:55 CDT details
You Save: $17.05 (34%)
New (5) Used (22) Collectible (1) from $32.95
Seller: lacabooks
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 515,298
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 181
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 12 x 9.6 x 0.7
ISBN: 0316700320
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.213
EAN: 9780316700320
ASIN: 0316700320
Publication Date: November 1995
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
For more than half a century, Parish-Hadley Associates has been synonymous with classic American elegance. Their distinctive blend of comfort and style has set the standard for interior design in a wide variety of settings, including the Kennedy White House. In this lavishly illustrated book, America's most celebrated interior decorators at last reveal the secrets of their timeless and unique style. 168 color photos.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Brilliant book for the serious student of interior design! February 24, 1999
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
A beautiful book, certainly more valuable than a mere 'coffee table' book. If one is serious about interior design, seeing and understanding what these amazing people did to the art is imperative. The photographs show rooms that will stand the test of time and make you salivate over the treasures. What an incredible legacy they have, american design owes them beyond measure.
Too Important to Be Out of Print December 30, 2004
Nancy Robertson (Alabama, United States)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I borrowed this remarkable book from the library, and it's a treasure. Many years ago Sister Parrish, the chintz-loving society decorator who helped Jackie redo the White House, teamed up with Albert Hadley, a polite genius of timeless, clean design and proportion.
The result of this union of opposites was a partnership made in decorating heaven. In fact, the "marriage" produced wonderful offspring: Marriette Himes Gomez and Mark Hampton both got their start here.
If you'd like to see how many of the top American names of the 20th century lived, Jackie, Nelson Rockefeller, Babe Paley, it's all here. And if you'd like in depth exposure to the design principles of two American masters, you couldn't ask for a better source.
What a shame this out of print book costs $250. If it were $50 I'd buy it in a one-click minute. Attention book publishers, you need to reissue this book for the design-starving masses.
Brilliant book for the serious student of interior design! February 24, 1999
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
A beautiful book, certainly more valuable than a mere 'coffee table' book. If one is serious about interior design, seeing and understanding what these amazing people did to the art is imperative. The photographs show rooms that will stand the test of time and make you salivate over the treasures. What an incredible legacy they have, american design owes them beyond measure.
A Tribute to One of America's Best Design Firms September 23, 2008
Classicdude (River City)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Pulled from the archives of the legendary interior design firm, PARISH HADLEY, SIXTY YEARS OF AMERICAN DESIGN was published in 1995, the year after Sister Parish's death at age 84 -- or 91, depending. Unfortunately, failing health apparently prevented her active participation in the book but previous interviews and recordings, along with anecdotes from employees, provided information. Of course, long-time business partner Albert Hadley, still in practice now on his own at age 87, was able to help make a fitting tribute to the firm, one of the country's finest in its heyday. Sadly, Parish-Hadley is now defunct, ruined by the last associates before the Millenium.
Although no photographs were done expressley for the book, the projects that did have a shot or two are interesting studies. After the first section on Parish and Hadley, the second part shows examples of rooms in the categories of Arrivals, Living Rooms, Dining Rooms, Libraries, Bedrooms, and Garden Rooms. The third part tells the story of the decoration of the family rooms of the Kennedy White House, complete with documentary photos. And the fourth part shows multiple homes of various clients, most famous, all rich.
In the sixty years, undoubtedly there were many incredible projects that were not photographed for reasons of privacy and it is a shame for the readers and for the sake of a record that not even a mention is made of these. Evidently either Parish or Hadley at least supervised the projects pictured here. However, the strong back-up of talented assistant decorators, such as Bunny Williams, Kevin McNamara, David Easton, Brian McCarthy and David Kleinberg, who later went on to successful careers on their own, are only minimally mentioned if at all. And nothing is mentioned of the in-staff architects, Michael Shell, David McMahon, Paul Engel, John Tackett and Mark Ferguson among others, under the direction of vice-president Harold Simmons, who provided the magnificent "bones" of so many of the projects in the zenith years of the firm; all left before the downfall to start successful practices of their own. A listing of projects with their locations and dates would have been interesting, as would have been a write-up on the talent that trained at the firm. And strangely, there are none of the famous Albert Hadley sketches or renderings of any kind.
Although flawed and much less than it could have/should have been, this book is none-the-less an excellent reference for all interested in traditional residential design. Without a doubt, a MUST HAVE for all decorating libraries.
One of America's Best Design Firms September 23, 2008
Classicdude (River City)
Consisting mainly of information gleaned from the archives of the legendary design firm, many wonderful interiors projects are featured in this much-loved book. Sadly, Parish-Hadley is now defunct, but many of the decorators and architects who got their training from the Mistress and Master have gone on to successful careers of their own. See my review for another listing of this book. A MUST HAVE for all design libraries.
|
|
|
