Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place

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“The most distinguished private place” – that may be how, in 1893, the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described Biltmore Estate, possibly the most ambitious private building project of The usa’s Gilded Age. It used to be only five years earlier that George Washington Vanderbilt purchased the first parcel of what would transform his 125,000-acre estate in Asheville, North Carolina. Along side Olmsted, he commissioned the preeminent architect of the day, Richard Morris Hunt, to design the estate. The house, modeled in part on the chateaux of the Loire Valley, has transform probably the most greatest and most important in American architectural history. Its 255 rooms, with spectacular and finely crafted interiors, opulent furnishings (some designed by Hunt), and furniture and decorative arts objects collected by Vanderbilt from all corners of the world, have made it a wealthy national treasure. The estate served as the cradle of the profession of forestry in The usa. With Olmsted’s advice and expertise, it became the first working model of a scientifically managed forest and played a critical role in the creation of our national parks. This meticulously researched book accompanies an exhibition organized by The Octagon, the Museum of the American Architectural Foundation; it chronicles Biltmore from inception, development, and construction through its Christmas 1895 opening celebrations, and into the present. Original architectural drawings, sketches, plans, presentation drawings, nineteenth-century photographs, and vibrant new color photography complete this portrait of a great landmark. Nowadays Biltmore Estate belongs to George Washington Vanderbilt’s descendants, who have opened the house to the public and have made it some of the visited in The usa.

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