Andrew Geller: Deconstructed: Artist and Architect [Hardcover]

In Andrew Geller: Deconstructed, Gorst, 45, a documentary film-maker and writer who also lives in Northport, offers both a guide to Geller's work over the span of generations and a personal portrait of a man though the use of colorful anecdotes that perhaps can only come from a family member.In Andrew Geller: Deconstructed, author Jake Gorst, who also happens to be Geller's grandson, shares the stories behind many magnificent houses and the artist who created them. As readers, we feel like weekend guests at these sculptural summer homes built on the coasts of New England towns.This appealing biography captures the essence of a gifted and distinctive American architect. Jake Gorst conveys Geller's winsome and distinctive spirit as a designer, grounding the evolution of his talents in a personal saga of friends, family, artistic vision and a larger cultural history of the post-WWII era. The photographs, drawings and the text are a delightand sometimes even a revelation.Architect and artist Andrew Geller, the architect of happiness, is remembered for his unique, whimsical beach houses, including Pearlroth House, Elizabeth Reese House and the New York Hamptons Leisurama development. In Andrew Geller: Deconstructed (Glitterati Incorporated), Geller's grandson Jake Gorst has compiled two decades of interviews and a treasure trove of personal artifacts, including photographs and henceforth unpublished drawings by Geller.Written by Gellers grandson, Emmy Awardwinning documentary filmmaker Jake Gorst, Andrew Geller: Deconstructed explores an outstanding if undersung residential oeuvre that The New York Times called eccentrically free-form and eye-grabbing. One Geller house in Westhampton Beach looked like a box kite precariously set on edge. Two neighboring residences on Fire Island resembled pieces of a puzzle, the peaked roofline of one being a perfect fit for the concave angled roof of the one next door. A curious construction in the Long Island hamlet of Sagaponacl“2