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Some English Gardens - After Drawings by George S. Elgood - With Notes by Ger…
"Some English Gardens" is vintage collection of watercolour paintings whose subjects are real contemporary English gardens. The English Garden is a style of "landscape" garden that first appeared in England in the early eighteenth century and categorised by a idealized view of nature. For each painting in this volume there is provided interesting information about the location, with description…
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- 9781528768108
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Hints on Household TasteThe Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration
Primary authority on what was proper, beautiful, efficient in all aspects of mid-19th-century interior design. Originally published in 1868. Over 100 illustrations.
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- 9780486136714
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The Floating Pool LadyA Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City's Water…
Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In The Floating Pool Lady, Ann L. Buttenwieser recounts her triumphant adventure that started in the bayous of Louisiana and ended with a self-sustaining, floating swimming pool moored in New York Harbor. When Buttenwieser decided something needed to be done t…
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- 9781501716027
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- 1 online resource (276 pages)
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Principles of Victorian Decorative Design
Classic by noted Victorian designer discusses aesthetics, practical considerations of Victorian and Edwardian design. Rich, illuminating treatment of historic styles, beauty, utility, design of furniture, carpets, draperies, textiles, pottery, glass, metalwork, many other elements. Over 180 handsome illustrations.
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- 9780486158563
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- 1 online resource (176 pages)
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Deleuze and Design
Drawing on a range of contributors, case studies and examples, this book examines how we can think about design through Deleuze, and how Deleuze's thought can be re-designed to produce new concepts. It taps into the emerging networks between philosophy as an act of inventing concepts and design as the process of inventing the world.
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- 9780748691555
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- 1 online resource (264 pages)
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Country and Suburban Homes of the Prairie School Period
Over 400 photographs, floor plans, elevations, detailed drawings exteriors and interiors for over 100 structures of Prairie School period. Complemented by author's concise text. Important primary source.
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- 9780486158549
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- 1 online resource (128 pages)
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Deleuze and Architecture
This collection looks critically at how Deleuze challenges architecture as a discipline, how architecture contributes to philosophy and how we can come to understand the complex politics of space of our increasingly networked world.
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- 9780748674664
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- 1 online resource (304 pages)
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Spanish-Colonial Architecture in the United States
A classic work by a distinguished architectural historian, tracing Spanish architectural influence in Florida, the Gulf Coast, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California in text illustrated by 195 photographs and 50 measured drawings. Among the sites explored: St. Augustine, San Antonio, Santa Fe, Tucson, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Juan Capistrano, and Carmel.
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- 9780486157399
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- 1 online resource (192 pages)
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The Churches of CoventryA Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
9 disturbance in the city of Coventry, from the "enthusiasm of the sectarter," as the historian calls them;— thc same terms... supposed to be guilty of impiety towards God and the Church, under an external profession of extraordinary piety.
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BrunelleschiStudies of His Technology and Inventions
A pioneer of Italian Renaissance architecture, Filippo Brunelleschi (13771446) is most famous for his daring and original ideas, among them the magnificent dome of Florence's famed cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore. For the project, which was started in 1420 and substantially completed by 1434, Brunelleschi designed a huge dome without supporting framework. The construction took place during muc…
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- 9780486157283
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