Cool World is a Pop-Culture Smorgasbord! We never use stock images and we hand-check all of our books! 1953 1st Horizon Press edition. Fair, price-clipped damaged jacket over near fine book. Retains a fascinating gift inscription from Gerry and Priscilla Peirce to Caroline and Arthur Brown. Book has a watercolor painting and gift inscription on the front page that reads. Merry Xmas / To Caroline and Arthur Brown from all the Peirces 1953. Our research strongly suggests that. Arthur Brown is the notable Arizona architect who is known as “Tuscon’s pioneer of solar design, “. And that the watercolor painting on the frontpage is likely by the equally notable Tuscon watercolorist, Gerry Peirce. In 1948, Planned Parenthood founder, Margaret Sanger, wanted to have a house built and approached Wright to design it. Wright declined, lamenting the smallness of the project. She then approached Arthur Brown who designed her house which is now a registered building on the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In 1949, soon after the house was built, Margaret Sanger, a student of Gerry Pierce, hosted the first meeting of the Tuscon Watercolor Guild at that house. The Tuscon Watercolor Guild was founded by Gerry Peirce in 1947. So, this book, apparently bought new when it came out by Gerry Peirce and his wife, Priscilla, and gifted to Caroline and Arthur Brown seems to be either a joke amongst friends or a nod to Wright for providing Brown with what has become, in the end, one of Brown’s most significant buidlings. Perhaps it was at Sanger’s home that Peirce and Brown established their friendship. It would appear that this book represents the convergence of three of Tuscon Arizona’s most notable residents: Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sangert, the notable artist and founder of the Tuscon Watercolor Guild, Gerry Peirce, and Arthur Brown, one of the pioneers of environmental architecture. To Frank Lloyd Wright in a very specific and especially unusual way. Cool World Pop Culture. Works hard to deliver exceptional products in a timely, professional manner.
