Waddesdon Manor

by Michael Hall, John Bigelow Taylor

For years , the Asian Art Museum was one of San Francisco's best-kept secrets. It was the largest museum devoted to Asian art in the Western world, but its collection was housed in a wing of another museum where only a small fraction of the collection could be displayed. In 1997, it moved into a landmark 1916 building designed by George W. Kelham. The task of retaining the building's historic qualities while invigorating it with bold new elements was given to Milanese architect Gae Aulenti, who had previously transformed a beaux arts train station into the Muse, D'Orsay. The result is a blend of Beaux Arts traditionalism and sleek European modernism. This new addition to the Art Spaces series studies the history and design of one of America's most unique museums.

Genres: History

320 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
For the children's author, see Michael Hall. For the author of the Island Pamphlets (Northern Ireland), see Michael Hall.

Reviews

[Greta Grimm]

Great chapters on holding onto this house during WWII -- so often the undoing of these families, their inheritances and the treasures they contain. Great photography, nice history. I dig this stuff.

[Stacey]

Great chapters on holding onto this house during WWII -- so often the undoing of these families, their inheritances and the treasures they contain. Great photography, nice history. I dig this stuff.