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Helsinki, Finland: Museum of Finnish Architecture, 1984. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Dual text in English and Finnish. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Previous owner (a designer) has written E Saarinen neatly in black on the spine. 120pp. Many b/w and some occasional colour illustrations. This catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition of the designs within Finland of the Finnish born architect and designer, Eliel Saarinen 1873-1950 (father of Eero) held at the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki from 15th August to 14th October, 1984. Scarce..

Basel, Berlin, Boston: Birkhauser, 1990. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Red hardcover with title in black on fron cover and spine.Translated from Dutch into English by Charlotte I.Loeb and Arthur L.Loeb. 324pp. Many b/w illustrations. Theo van Doesburg's reviews on architecture collected in this volume give an overall picture of the most important developments of European architecture in the1920's seen from the avant-garde point of view of a contemporary..

Dorchester, Dorset: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society and The Thomas Hardy Society, 2014. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. No inscriptions. 57pp. Several colour illustrations. Before he became an author, the young Thomas Hardy was apprenticed to the church architect John Hicks in Dorchester from 1856 to 1862. This slim volume gives the first detailed account of Hicks's Dorset years including a catalogue of all his documented works in the county..

Dorchester, Dorset: Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1995. Book. Good. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). Softcover. Condition: Good, essentially very good with light sunning to left-hand third of front cover and and light crease to top outer corner of rear cover, with a corresponding crease to the last three pages of the book. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover. Signed by the author and his wife on title page. 85pp. Many b/w illustrations. This book sets out to examine the 16 cases (14 of them in Dorset) in which Thomas Hardy was involved in varying degrees as a Life Member from 1881 of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)..

New York: Rizzoli, 1989. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Pale sage green hardcover with title in black on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and a couple of small repaired tears. 332pp. 254 b/w illustrations. In this book, the author, Victoria Newhouse chronicles the career of Wallace K Harrison (1895-1981) who together with Nelson A Rockefeller produced one of the most powerful architect-client relationships of all time..

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Grey hardcover with title in gilt on front cover and spine. Condition: Good, with previous owners bookplate on front endpaper and an inscription dated 2013, possibly from the author to the previous owner (a former curator of Dorset County Museum in Dorchester) on front endpaper. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear.and a couple of small repaired tears around top of spine of jacket. Not price-clipped. 526pp. 25 colour and 392 b/w illustrations. This was the first biography of William Butterfield (1814-1900). Butterfield was the pioneer of the original High Victorian phase of the Gothic Revival, and the first Victorian architect to experiment with constructional colour. The book seeks, through a combined discussion of Butterfield's personality, his style, and the social situation within which he worked, to reach a new understanding not merely of Butterfield, but of the whole significance of… Leer más