Research Catalog

Title

The Picker house and collection : a late 1960s home for art and design / Jonathan Black, David Falkner, Fiona Fisher, Fran Lloyd, Rebecca Preston, Penny Sparke.

Author

Black, Jonathan, 1969-

Publication

• London : Philip Wilson Publishers, [2013].
• ©2013

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Details

Additional Authors

• Falkner, David
• Fisher, Fiona
• Lloyd, Fran
• Preston, Rebecca, 1967-
• Sparke, Penny

Description

xvii, 211 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

Picker House is a remarkable late 1960s modernist home specifically designed to accommodate a significant international collection of modern and contemporary painting and sculpture. This book brings together leading researchers in their respective fields who examine in depth every aspect of this unique place.

Subject

• Picker, Stanley, 1913-1982 > Homes and haunts
• Picker, Stanley, 1913-1982
• Picker House
• Architecture, Domestic > England > London
• Art > Private collections > England > London
• Art and architecture > England > London
• Architecture, Domestic
• Art and architecture
• Art > Private collections
• Homes
• England > London

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-205) and index.

Contents

'An entrepreneurial wizard': a biographical sketch of Stanley Picker / Jonathan Black -- The Picker House: a British house with and international outlook / Fiona Fisher -- The Picker House interior / Penny Sparke -- The Picker garden / Rebecca Preston -- The Picker House painting, print and drawing collection / Jonathan Black -- The Picker House sculpture collection / Fran Lloyd -- The Picker House: contemporary perspectives / David Falkner -- Stanley Picker Fellowships: art and design.

ISBN

• 1781300054
• 9781781300053

LCCN

2013474213

OCLC

• ocn801441090
• 801441090
• SCSB-13613390

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library