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Edward Durell Stone
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Stone, Edward Durell 

Born Mar. 9, 1902, in Fayette-ville, Ark.; died Aug. 6, 1978, in New York City. American architect.

Stone attended Harvard University (1925–26) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1925–27). His compositionally simple and starkly functional architectural style of the 1930’s (for example, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1939) evolved into official neoclassicism in the 1950’s (for example, the US Embassy in New Delhi, 1958; the US Pavilion at the Brussels World’s Fair, 1958). Stone used symmetrical layouts and facades and ornamental hanging grilles. He gave simple interpretations to motifs from the classical orders.



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Her site listed a $45 million, 15,000-square-foot mansion at 41 East 65th Street: The modernist Edward Durrell Stone apparently did interior work; its exceptionally proportioned dining room is “baronial”; a “celebrity owner does sophisticated entertaining on a very grand scale.
GM, designed by Edward Durrell Stone and completed in 1968, is a fifty-story tower clad in white-marble columns running uninterruptedly from base to top.
Designed in the 1960's by Edward Durrell Stone, 2 Columbus Circle is considered to be one of the oddest structures in New York because of its lollipop-shaped columns and lack of windows.
 
 
 
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