Art at Work: The Chase Manhattan Collection
New York; (1984): E.P. Dutton. First Edition. Quarto. Item #030053
332pp.,Essays by J. Walter Severinghaus, Forewords by David Rockefeller and Williard C. Butcher and edited, designed and produced by Marshall Lee. The Chase Manhattan bank new head office building built in the lower Manhattan was an architectual beauty. Gordon Bunshaft, the partner of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill who was most responsible for the building design pointed out that to enhance the buildings' atmossphere it needed something on the walls. They then began collecting art and artifacts from around the world. Today houseing over 13,000 items of which 9000 pieces were of commisioned art. This book celebrates the 25th anniversary of this exceptioanl endeaver. Bound in black cloth stamped in blind with the Chase emblem, soube kettering gilt ner fine in near fine pictorial dust jacket.
Price: $35.00