ANNE WALKER
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN, WRITER AND AUTHOR
Peter Pennoyer Architects: City / Country
Anne Walker
The twenty projects in this volume bears the hallmarks of Peter Pennoyer Architects’ work: skillful adaptation of the principles of classical architecture, sophisticated use of details and materials, and insistence on meticulous craftsmanship, resulting in a balance of comfort, beauty, and luxury. With an authoritative text by Anne Walker, color photographs, site plans, and floor plans throughout, it showcases residential architecture at its finest.
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Vendome Press
2023
Wadia Associates: The Fine Art of Designing a Home
Anne Walker, Editor
This monograph presents New Canaan-based Wadia Associates' residential projects with full-color photography, detailed drawings, and thoughtful and incisive narratives on each project, reflecting how the firm adapted the classical language of architecture to modern day living.
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Images Publishing
2020
Rowdy Meadow: House, Land, Art
Text by Anne Walker
Anne Walker guides the reader through Rowdy Meadow, designed and decorated by Peter Pennoyer Architects, room by room, showcasing furnishings spanning the Arts and Crafts era through art deco, with pieces by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Josef Hoffmann, Dagobert Peche, Eileen Gray, and Gio Ponti; and fine art by Walton Ford and James Lee Byars. She then tours the Reed Hilderbrand–designed landscape and sculpture park—with works by Anish Kapoor and Andy Goldsworthy—spread throughout the 146-acre property.
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Vendome Press
2021
Harrie T. Lindeberg and the American Country House
Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker
This architectural tour brings to light the genius and influence of Harrie T. Lindeberg, a leader of the American Country House Era and one of America’s most recognizable yet underappreciated architects.
The Monacelli Press
2017
Rowdy Meadow: House, Land, Art
Anne Walker
Life at the Top: New York's Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings
Kirk Henckels and Anne Walker
Kirk Henckels and Anne Walker, real estate and architectural insiders, chronicle the fortunes and features of 15 outstanding apartment houses with a wealth of vintage and new photography and architectural plans, and show off select apartments as they look today, designed by top interior designers.
Vendome Press
2017
A House in the Country
Peter Pennoyer and Katie Ridder with Anne Walker
In this book, exquisitely illustrated with photographs, finely rendered plans, and hand-painted illustrations, Anne Walker tells the story of this home, a collaborative effort of architect Peter Pennoyer and his wife interior designer Katie Ridder with lush English cottage-inspired gardens also designed by Ridder, a passionate self-taught gardener.
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Vendome Press
2016
Gardens of Eden: Long Island's Early Twentieth Century Planned Communities
"Bayberry Point," Anne Walker
Anne Walker's contribution to this book, edited by Robert B. MacKay of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, looks at the development of Bayberry Point, designed by Grosvenor Atterbury in 1906.
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W. W. Norton & Company, 2015
New York Transformed: The Architecture of Cross & Cross
Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker
This is the first book to present the work of Cross & Cross, one of the New York "starchitects" of the vibrant era of the 1910s and 1920s. Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker present a comprehensive monograph of the firm’s work, with more than 300 illustrations both historic and new and a catalogue raisonné of their projects.
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The Monacelli Press
2014
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American Decoration
Thomas Jayne with editorial assistance by Anne Walker
In this richly illustrated collection of both city and country residences, Jayne reveals the inspiration and thought behind each design, identifying elements from the architecture, the clients’ collections of art and antiques, and from the site itself that serves as the basis for the decoration of the rooms.
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The Monacelli Press
2012
Peter Pennoyer Architects: Apartments, Townhouses, Country Houses
Anne Walker
Anne Walker’s discerning text for Peter Pennoyer Architects, illustrated with more than three hundred specially commissioned photographs, architectural drawings, and watercolors, offers a thoughtful approach to understanding PPA’s impeccable implementation of classical traditions and skillful adaptation of timeless design to the exigencies of modern life.
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Vendome Press
2010
The Finest Rooms in America
Thomas Jayne with Anne Walker
This book presents fifty influential interiors from the 18th century to the present, selected by decorator and scholar Thomas Jayne. It is a definitive record of the finest American interior design with an authoritative text and luxuriant color photography.
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The Monacelli Press
2010
The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury
Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker
The Architecture of Grosvenor Atterbury is the first book to showcase the rich and varied repertoire of this prolific architect whose career spanned six decades and whose work affected the course of American architecture, planning, and construction.
W. W. Norton & Company
2009
Rowdy Meadow: House, Land, Art
Anne Walker
The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore
Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker
During the first three decades of the twentieth century, Warren & Wetmore was one of the most successful and prolific architectural practices in America. The Architecture of Warren & Wetmore is the definitive source about a practice that made an indelible imprint on the American landscape.
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W. W. Norton & Company
2006
Frank M. Snyder's Building Details
Introduction by Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker
Between 1906 and 1914, New York architect Frank M. Snyder published Building Details, a serial produced in twelve parts over eight years. Not only is Building Details important in showing how architects learned and drew from the designs of the great masters; it is a rare and beautiful documentation of how these important early-twentieth-century architects realized their designs.
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W. W. Norton & Company
2007
The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich
Peter Pennoyer and Anne Walker
The firm of Delano & Aldrich occupied a central place in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, substantially shaping the architectural climate of the period. The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich is the definitive source about a practice whose work forms a lasting part of the American landscape.
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W. W. Norton & Company
2003