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Life of a Mansion (Paperback)
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"Life of a Mansion" tells the story of the building that Cooper
Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum calls home. It details how Andrew
Carnegie's grand but functional Fifth Avenue mansion-which was
pioneering in its design, with an electric elevator and modern
steel-frame construction-was constructed. The book features the
rooms in which Carnegie conducted his business and philanthropic
endeavors, and where the family and staff lived and entertained
throughout the mid-twentieth century. It also surveys plans for the
1976 renovation by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer (when Cooper Hewitt first
opened as a public museum) and the building's latest extraordinary
renovation by Gluckman Mayner Architects, executive architect Beyer
Blinder Belle and world-renowned Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, which
has positioned Cooper Hewitt as a truly twenty-first-century design
museum. Upon completion of three years of intense work, the new
building has been LEED certified, and has gained an additional
6,000 square feet of gallery space. With an engaging narrative
illustrated by 200 photographs, maps, floor plans and letters,
"Life of a Mansion" chronicles the 110-year history of the National
Landmark building, as well as the evolution of the museum from its
establishment by the Hewitt Sisters in 1897 to its status
postrenovation in 2014 as the site of the nation's design
authority.
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