Elegant Explorations

Phillip Jacobson has practiced architecture in Seattle for forty years. He was a partner in, and for twenty years design director of, TRA, a large multi-disciplinary firm renowned for deft and effective design of large architectural and urban projects, both domestic and international. Throughout the years, however, Jacobson has also continually engaged in the design of furniture and lighting fixtures for commercial production, and from the outset of his professional career he has designed jewelry and home accessories for friends and family. This "other" realm of design evidences Jacobson's use of timeless structural and formal concepts. For the architect, this realm has been an exciting exploration; it is the subject of this book.

Grant Hildebrand is professor emeritus of architecture and art history at the University of Washington. He is the author of several books on architecture, including Origins of Architectural Pleasure, for which in 2000 he received the Washington Governor's Writers Award for work of literary merit and lasting value. In 2005, with co-author T. William Booth, he was short-listed for the award for A Thriving Modernism: The Houses of Wendell Lovett and Arne Bystrom. His most recent publication is Frank Lloyd Wright's Palmer House.