READ THIS: Peter Pennoyer Architects

It's not who you know, it's Whom You Know, and at Campion Platt's event recently: http://www.whomyouknow.com/2010/10/nightlight-archivia-books-hosts-campion.html Campion asked Peachy if she had read Peter's book.  She had not, but she has now and we think it is absolutely exquisite.  From the apartments to the townhouses to the countryhouses, everything is pure class down to the last detail by Peter Pennoyer.  This work of art is something everyone with good taste should be hoping for under their Christmas tree, and everyone with both good and excellent taste will emulate Peter's ideas.  From the opening two pages which are emblazoned with a chandelier that dominates the room (we kind of think that of any fabulous chandelier as Peachy is addicted to them) to the next page that boasts a staircase that might be to heaven, this book is an architectural hit parade that is going to make you start to hate where you live unless you live in a place by Peter Pennoyer.  But then, you will just have to read the book a little bit more closely again to see where you can improve upon your space to invigorate it to a higher standard: you know, Ever to Excel.  Robert A. M. Stern wrote the foreword, and we're pretty sure we've met him at a few of the soirees written up in Nightlight but there are so many of them we can't find the actual one....Peachy Deegan would really like to live in that Fifth Avenue Triplex...and we love the ship chandelier in that.  We love the clean look of the East Side Duplex.  We will take the pool on pages 150-151; we'd die for the green marble mantel on pages 98-99 and this post is in green we love it so much.  Whom You Know highly recommends Peter Pennoyer Architects!!!  Start living in your dream.


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Peter Pennoyer Architects practices a refined architecture that imaginatively reinterprets classical pre-war American design for modern living. Drawing upon the examples of his aesthetic mentors Delano & Aldrich, Warren & Wetmore, and Grosvenor Atterbury, PPA’s projects strike a balance between comfort, luxury, and beauty. The work is characterized by a sophisticated use of detail and an insistence on meticulous craftsmanship and materials rarely found in contemporary architecture. This continuity with the past, both in concept and execution, lies at the very core of PPA’s award-winning designs.
Combining an inventive spirit with an erudite grasp of architectural history, Peter Pennoyer Architects has been designing elegant, classically based homes in both urban and country settings for two decades. Twenty of the firm’s residential projects are featured in this sumptuously illustrated volume, ranging from a triplex on New York’s Fifth Avenue to a Spanish Colonial Revival house in San Francisco, from a farmhouse in the Virginia countryside to a ranch in New Mexico. Guided by Anne Walker’s illuminating text, the reader can count on deriving a great appreciation for the firm’s impeccable implementation of classical traditions and skillful adaptation of timeless design to the exigencies of modern life.

Peter Pennoyer Architects: Apartments, Townhouses, Country Houses

Product Details

·         Hardcover: 244 pages, 10 x 12”

·         More than 250 color images

·         Publisher: The Vendome Press (October 1, 2010)

·         Language: English

·         ISBN-10: 0865652686

·         ISBN-13: 978-0865652682

·         US $60 ~ CAN $78

About the Author

Anne Walker holds a master’s degree in historic preservation from Columbia University. She is the coauthor of The Ford Plantation Architectural Pattern Book and The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich, The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore, and The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury (all with Peter Pennoyer).

Robert A. M. Stern, founder and Senior Partner of Robert A. M. Stern Architects, is Dean of the Yale School of Architecture. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the AIA New York Chapter’s President’s Award (2001) and the Board of Directors’ Honor from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Classical America (2007). 

Praise for Peter Pennoyer Architects: Apartments, Townhouses, Country Houses

“Peter Pennoyer is on the top of my short list of great American architects. His extraordinary understanding of the nuances of architecture, and exemplary respect for historic precedents, allow me to do my job ever better. As can be seen on every page of this captivating book, he is a decorator's dream architect.” ~ Jeffrey Bilhuber

“Peter Pennoyer is perhaps the rudest, rowdiest, most unruly, rambunctious, and revolutionary radical in all of contemporary architecture. He has dared rip out by the roots the cardinal rule of by-now-rusty, notoriously rule-ridden, nearly century-old Modernism: 'Thou shalt not render any design requiring more than a ruler and a protractor.' Pennoyer has readily run the forbidden risk of trying every form he can recall plus forms too radically recent to be recognized at first run-through. He is the ruler of Right Now in American architecture.” ~ Tom Wolfe

 “Like a summer's day, each of Peter Pennoyer's rooms invites and refreshes. His homes seem to have existed forever—perfectly proportioned, welcoming, and full of good times to come. A beautiful book to stroll through and linger in.” ~ Sigourney Weaver