Architectural historian Mary Anne Hunting received her doctorate from the City University of New York’s Graduate Center and a master’s degree in the history of decorative arts and design from the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum/Parsons School of Design. She lives in New York City with her husband and twin children.
"[T]horoughly researched, well-documented, highly illustrated book.
Hunting’s is the first dispassionate account of Stone’s career: a
scholarly complement to the two autobiographical tomes Stone penned
in the 1960s and the biography recently published by his youngest
son. . . . [A]n enthusiastic and well-written biography."
*Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians*
"The highs and lows of Stone’s career are meticulously laid out in
this well-researched monograph . . . . The projects documented in
this compendium certainly convinced this reviewer that Stone’s
massive achievements do indeed merit a thoughtful reappraisal. . .
. What author Hunting has given us is a well-told, well-documented
and well-illustrated story of a talented designer’s lifelong
striving to shape an architecture that satisfied both his inner
vision and his clients’ desires."
*Traditional Building*
"Given its depth of research and fairness, this will be the
definitive book on Stone for years to come."
*Cerise Press*
"As Mary Anne Hunting’s book makes clear . . . Stone tapped into a
widespread desire – shared by the design professions and the public
– for an easily understood Modernism, a Modernism that would
challenge stark functionalism with the sensuous, the luxurious, and
occasionally the monumental. . . . One of the virtues of Hunting’s
book is its inclusion of numerous little-known projects, such as
the furniture line and some modest houses, that shed light on the
development of Stone – and of the design world generally."
*officeinsight*
"[M]easured and methodical in its singular argument that Stone is
underestimated and unfairly maligned in the profession. . . .
Hunting’s admirable and meticulous research is shown in the range
of information she has gleaned from sources high and low."
*DOCOMOMO*
"In reassessing Stone's important contributions to American
Modernism Hunting's meticulously documented text also brings to
life his charm and colorful personality. . . . [T]he book immerses
the reader in Stone's milieu and strengthens one's understanding of
just how much he accomplished in bringing modernism to
Everyman."
*Antiques*
"Architecture lovers who believe Romantic Modernism is an oxymoron
clearly haven’t read Mary Anne Hunting’s exquisitely written volume
on America’s forgotten populist modern architect Edward Durell
Stone. . . . Hunting’s approach reveals Stone’s technicolour dream
with absolute perfection. This is a volume for the serious
architecture lover and those in search of a brilliantly written
biography."
*Identity*
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