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New York Transformed: The Architecture of Cross & Cross

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The architects Cross & Cross shaped the streetscape and skyline of New York City within the 1920s and 1930s with Upper East Side townhouses and apartment buildings, the RCA Victor Building, and Tiffany’s flagship store on 57th Street.
 
Working through a period of American history that saw dramatic change, from luxurious apartment buildings all the way through the industrial boom of the 1920s, to federal commissions all the way through the Depression, the brothers John and Eliot Cross were masters in their craft. Well-connected society men who also showed remarkable foresight in business, Cross & Cross supported their practice with a partnered real estate firm and played a very important role in residential developments like Sutton Place along the East River.
 
Cross & Cross oversaw the development of handsome clubs and houses all through New York City, including the Links Club and the Upper East Side houses of Lewis Spencer Morris and George Whitney. They designed country houses in exclusive residential pockets out of doors New York—the Southampton estate of Winterthur founder Henry Francis du Pont; houses at the North Shore of Long Island, and in Greenwich, Connecticut; the childhood home of Sister Parish in Far Hills, New Jersey; and the Shelburne, Vermont home of J. Watson and Electra Webb.
                                                                                                    
On this first book to assemble the achievements of Cross & Cross, Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker present a comprehensive monograph of the firm’s work, with more than 300 illustrations both historic and new and a catalogue raisonné in their projects.

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