Last Thursday night my friend Dan Cooper, who the leader of the free world calls when he needs an historically accurate carpet for a certain famous bedroom, invited me to accompany him to his book launch at the Tavern Club in Boston. The book is New Classic American Houses: The Architecture of Albert, Righter & Tittmann
and while Dan is a fantastic writer, it is really the photographs that are the stars of this book. I met the architects Albert, Righter and Tittmann, who were lovely and gracious, but I left wondering if they intentionally ordered their names so as to spell AR&T (how perfect) and what's up with architects and bow-ties? Their "Modern Traditional" designs hearken back to the days of McKim, Mead & White
and I sure Wm Morris would agree with Robert Stern's very Morris-sounding sentiment in the foreward to this book: “What a pleasure it is to have an architecture so beautifully naturalized—to site, to purpose, and to tradition.” Here are my favorite AR&T houses/interiors......A wooden wonder......
This one reminds me of the traditional architecture of the Gaeltacht of western Ireland....
Shouldn't everybody have a porch with a fireplace?.....
The Checkerboard House....
The Guest Cottage.....the yellow sashes are inspired....
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