Hearst Castle The Biography of a Country House by Victoria Kastner
4to. pp. 240. 259 illustrations -157 in colour. bibliography. index. hardcover dw. [New York]: Harry N. Abrams , Inc., [2000].
New.
ISBN-10: 0810934159 / ISBN-13: 9780810934153
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Hearst and Julia Morgan, the first prominent woman architect in America, collaborated for twenty-eight years on the creation of La Cuesta Encantada, or the "Enchanted Hill." Nonetheless, the magnificent 165-room estate on 250,000 breathtaking acres near the remote seaside hamlet of San Simeon, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, was never completed. Now, drawing on previously unpublished correspondence - nearly 5,000 letters exchanged between Hearst, Morgan, and their staffs from the 1920s through the 1940s - Victoria Kastner chronicles the evolution of this extraordinary Mediterranean-inspired compound, its two spectacular pools, and its astounding collections of art and antiquities.