Heritage
Gabriele Annan, 6 March 1997
The Architect of Desire: Beauty and Danger in the Stan ford White Family
by Suzannah Lessard.
Weidenfeld, 352 pp., £18.99, March 1997,0 297 81940 2 Show More
by Suzannah Lessard.
Weidenfeld, 352 pp., £18.99, March 1997,
“... and rosettes, and for huge marble fireplaces and coffered ceilings ripped out of European palaces. Lessard persuades one that he was a genius at using volume and light to create serene, festive space. Nearly all of his New York banks, churches, clubs, company headquarters and palatial mansions for the newly rich have been pulled down or have fallen into ... ”