SOM:
ARCHITECTURE OF SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL
1950-1962
Henry Russell Hitchcock [introduction] and Ernst Danz [text]
Henry Russell Hitchcock [introduction] and Ernst Danz [text] : SOM: ARCHITECTURE OF SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERRILL, 1950-1962. NYC: Frederick A. Praeger, Inc. 1963. First American edition [Copyright 1962 by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart]. Text in English and German. A near-fine hardcover book in a very good or better dustjacket with minor shelf wear including a band of discoloration along the back cover's top fore edge and the laminate separating from the cover along the bottom fore edge. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Design of cover and jacket: Chermayeff & Geismar Assoc., New York. 8.75 x 11.25 hardcover book 232 pages and approx. 300 photographs and plan drawings. This book surveys 38 SOM projects and includes a list of SOMıs partners circa 1962 [Gordon Bunshaft, Walter Netsch, Robert W. Cutler, Edward Bassett, John O. Merrill, etc.]. Translations by Ernst van Haagen and Antje Pehnt.
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