Description: A large half leather bound book, which I believe is volume 1 of The Architectural Works of Graham, Anderson, Probst, and White of Chicago. There is no title page but from the research I have done it seems to be volume 1 published by Batsford in 1933. The book is in very good condition; rubbing to the raised bands of the spine, rubbng to the edge of the spine and the board corners, rubbing to the boards, light browning to the pages, the blank pages pposite the photographs has an imprint of the photo left on it. The pages are all intact and clean and the binding is tight. The book measures 17 x 13 inches approx. There are over 180 photographs from the early 1900s through to the 1930s of the buildings that the firm had dealings with.Background[edit]Graham, Anderson, Probst & White was the largest architectural firm under one roof during the first half of the twentieth century. The firm's importance to Chicago's architectural legacy cannot be overstated, nor can its connection to Burnham.The firm was headquartered in Burnham's own Railway Exchange Building. In part from its connection to Burnham, the firm captured the majority of the big commissions from 1912 to 1936, including such iconic works as the Wrigley Building, Merchandise Mart, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, Civic Opera House, Chicago Fed, and the former central Chicago post office. Its only close rival was the equally prolific Holabird and Root.GAP&W also created the iconic Terminal Tower in Cleveland and Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City.[1]Anderson died in 1924, with Graham and White following just weeks apart in 1936. Surviving partner Edward M. Probst took over the firm, assisted by his sons Marvin Probst and Edward E. Probst.After Mr. Probst's death in 1942, son Marvin G. Probst took over as firm president. Edward E. Probst left the firm about 1947. Just prior to Marvin Probst's death in 1970, the firm was sold to an employee, William R. Surman. From 1970 to 1993 William Surman was president of the firm. After his death in 1993, the practice was run by his son Robert Surman till the firm closed its doors in the fall of 2006. Graham, Anderson, Probst & White became known for its classical taste and the elegance of its Beaux-Arts-inspired output, which Louis Sullivan decried as a stylistic throwback but which nonetheless withstood multiple generations of critics. Those early buildings are still popular favorites today. However, starting in 1923 with the firm's plans for the Merchandise Mart and the Straus Building, the practice soon began to move beyond the Beaux-Arts influence of Burnham and the City Beautiful movement to the bolder, starker Art Deco style with its streamlined forms. The firm's ultimate expression of the Art Deco style was found in its design of the 1931 Field Building (later known as the La Salle Bank Building), which was a commission from the estate of department store magnate Marshall Field. It was matched that year by Holabird and Root's equally stunning Chicago Board of Trade Building. After 1931, GAP&W for the most part stopped referencing the Beaux-Arts style.
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Binding: half leather
Non-Fiction Subject: architecture
Language: English
Publisher: batsford
Original/Facsimile: Original
