Pauline C. Metcalf
Wayne Craven provides a detailed account of how Stanford White created some of his most fantastic interiors, describing his many sources and contacts; and ultimately how White used his extraordinary talent for mixing styles and antique furnishings in a unique, imaginative way.
Pauline C. Metcalf, editor of Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses
Richard Guy Wilson
This is a valuable book that represents an impressive amount of research. Craven reveals White's important role as an interior decorator in helping to form his clients' tastes and in importing important works of art and other objects to the United States.
Richard Guy Wilson, University of Virginia, author of The Colonial Revival House
Leland Roth
Wayne Craven fills an important gap between studies of Stanford White as an architect of houses and Stanford White as a society figure and bon vivant. Craven has accomplished the near impossible task of finding and organizing White's papers and writings to illuminate his work on selected building designs and their attendant interiors.
Leland Roth, University of Oregon, author of McKim, Mead & White, Architects