ARTBOOK BLOG

RECENT POSTS

DATE 12/5/2024

The Primary Essentials x Artbook Pop Up

DATE 11/11/2024

Know your propaganda!

DATE 11/9/2024

Yumna Al-Arashi pays poetic tribute to her great-grandmother and an ancient tattooing practice

DATE 11/8/2024

Kaleidoscopic and dynamic, Orphism comes to the Guggenheim

DATE 11/7/2024

Long before social media, Sophie Calle fearlessly overshared

DATE 11/6/2024

Holiday Gift Guide 2024: For the Lover of Letters

DATE 11/6/2024

A shudder of American self-recognition in 'Omen'

DATE 11/5/2024

Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Where Form Meets Function

DATE 11/3/2024

Holiday Gift Guide 2024: For the Film Buff

DATE 11/2/2024

Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Artful Crowd-Pleasers

DATE 11/1/2024

Celebrate Native American Heritage Month!

DATE 11/1/2024

Hot book alert! 'Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy' is out now from the Morgan Library & Museum

DATE 11/1/2024

Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Stuff that Stocking


EVENTS

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/11/2014

Wellfleet Public Library to host Cape Cod Modern Panel, Lecture and Book Signing

This Friday, August 15 at 8PM, Metropolis Books, the Cape Cod Modern House Trust and the Wellfleet Public Library invite you to join Cape Cod Modern authors Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani alongside architecture historian Kenneth Frampton (who contributes the book's Foreword) and architect Peter Chermayeff (son of architect Serge Chermayeff, whose work and life are central to the book) for a panel discussion in celebration of this summer's best-selling architecture title.

Wellfleet Public Library to host Cape Cod Modern Panel, Lecture and Book Signing
ABOVE: Serge Chermayeff and Marcel Breuer at Breuer's house on Williams Pond, ca. 1975, more than 30 years after Chermayeff convinced Breuer to visit the Cape and buy property of his own.

Wellfleet Public Library to host Cape Cod Modern Panel, Lecture and Book Signing
ABOVE: Chermayeff Studio, Wellfleet (1952). Chermayeff's modular concept was designed to allow growth by extrusion or mirroring. Pictured here is the south facade of the studio, after the porch was enclosed and another bay added (far left) to house a kitchen.

Wellfleet Public Library to host Cape Cod Modern Panel, Lecture and Book Signing
ABOVE: The north side of Chermayeff Studio, showing the expanded studio and guest cottage connected by an entry deck.

“Rigorously researched and meticulously documented, Cape Cod Modern narrates an extraordinary era of architectural experiments in spatial organization and materials on the Outer Cape. These houses are not only examples of an alternate legacy of the ‘masters’ of modern architecture. They are diagrams of a very particular worldview and recommendations for a specific way of living—progressive and enlightened, with art at its center.” –K. MICHAEL HAYS, HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
Wellfleet Public Library to host Cape Cod Modern Panel, Lecture and Book Signing
Wellfleet Public Library to host Cape Cod Modern Panel, Lecture and Book Signing
Wellfleet Public Library to host Cape Cod Modern Panel, Lecture and Book Signing
Wellfleet Public Library to host Cape Cod Modern Panel, Lecture and Book Signing
Wellfleet Public Library to host Cape Cod Modern Panel, Lecture and Book Signing

Cape Cod Modern

Cape Cod Modern

Metropolis Books
Hbk, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 272 pgs / 130 color / 200 b&w.

$45.00  free shipping