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(More customer reviews)Triumvirate is a refreshing read, a book that beautifully and expertly merges astute analysis with a great gift for telling the story. The author's deep understanding and acute sense of the period she covers make for a perceptive and intelligent study that brings to life the era and lives of architects and clients. Presenting a huge deal of original research, the author vividly complements and fleshes out the previously known fragments of the story of the firm's principals. The writer shows the importance of the firm's first chief designer, Joseph M. Wells, in establishing, at a young age, MM&W as a firm of the first rank. All the recollections of the era, including McKim and Mead's own words, reinforce that Wells was a short-lived genius. Triumvirate also puts the Newport story into a fresh historical perspective -- another splendid example of the author's in depth research. The role of J.G. Bennett, his properties, and the development of the Casino, comes to mind as only one of many insightful new additions to the original, skimpy tale. The writer's extraordinary ability to sketch true portraits instead of cut out figures of the story's main protagonists reveals the underlying dynamics and gives life to a new and full reading of the firm.
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