Longue Vue House and Gardens : The Architecture, Interiors, and Gardens of New Orleans' Most Celebrated Estate - Charles Davey

Longue Vue House and Gardens

The Architecture, Interiors, and Gardens of New Orleans' Most Celebrated Estate

By: Charles Davey, Carol McMichael Reese, Tina Freeman

Hardcover | 1 December 2015 | Edition Number 1

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The stunning interiors and glorious gardens of New Orleans's unrivaled jewel and architectural masterpiece. Longue Vue House and Gardens, accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and listed as a national historic landmark, was designed and built between 1934 and 1942 by landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman and architects Charles and William Platt for Edgar Bloom and Edith Rosenwald Stern, New Orleans's foremost mid-twentieth-century philanthropists and civil-rights activists. The mansion and its surrounding eight acres of garden spaces, with varied designs ranging from the formal to the wild, draw upon Southern architectural traditions and native Louisiana flora, even as they echo the contemporaneous garden-design movement that set the stage for the creation of some of the most breathtaking garden estates in the country. Lush photography, supporting architectural drawings, and an informative text bring the main house and gardens to life and establish the estate as an enduring symbol to its creators' contributions to building a just society.
Industry Reviews
This fantastic house history takes us through the past and present of one of New Orleans' greatest architectural treasures, with vintage illustrations and photos. . . ”
-The New Orleans Advocate

"LONGUE VUE HOUSE AND GARDENS captures an important moment in American house and garden design — and, for those of us who live too far from this gracious enclave, offers vicarious respite."
-THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"Substantial enough in size and comprehensiveness of content, Longue Vue House and Gardens is destined for display rather than to be shelved away, and will be the book to give and receive this holiday season."
- SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE MAGAZINE
 
Longue Vue is an iconic New Orleans estate that remains an important part of the city’s heritage today as a house museum. . . Stunning photographs of the interiors and gardens are supplemented with architectural and landscape drawings.
-ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST 

"Longue Vue House and Gardens showcases the stunning interiors and gardens of New Orleans's architectural masterpiece. . . Lush photography, drawings, and an informative text establish the estate as an enduring symbol to its creators' contributions to building a just society."
-GAMBIT WEEKLY 

"Longue Vue House and Gardens: The Architecture, Interiors, and Gardens of New Orleans' Most Celebrated Estate explores the history of this magnificent Classical Revival mansion and eight-acre estate. . .  Stunning photographs of the interiors and gardens are supplemented with architectural and landscape drawings."
-THE HUFFINGTON POST 

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