Resultados de búsqueda: Architecture / History from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Rizzoli, 1995. Cloth, 300 pages, illustrations, plans (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. CONTENTS: The modern American house; From the Brown decades to the fragmented metropolis, 1869-1929; Survival through design: the triumph of the modern American house, 1929-1945; Blueprint for modern living: the American house and the Pax Americana, 1945-1965; Complexity and contradiction: the late-modern house, 1965-1994.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Vintage Books; Random House, 1975. 154 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. V-570. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Another copy available. First paperback edition. Well-illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Vintage Books; Random House, 1975. 154 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. V-570. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. Well-illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harper & Row; A Style and Source Book, 1984. 223 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 x 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. A near-fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. An attractive copy. CONTENTS: Setting the style; Setting the scene; Hardware; Wallcoverings; Lighting; Decorative painting; Furniture; The Victorian hearth; Fabrics; Added touches.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1982. xx, [104] pages, illustrations; 32 cm. Illustrations from "Artistic Country-Seats: Types of Recent American Villa and Cottage Architecture: With Instances of Country Clubhouses," 1886-87. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "Reproduces all of Sheldon's fascinating and historically important photographs and plans for a total of 97 buildings (93 houses, 4 casinos) built during the 1880s. Adds a new, thoroughly accurate text by Arnold Lewis. Approx. 200 illustrations." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

New York: Dorset Press, 1990. Cloth, 192 pages, illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: Thames and Hudson, 1986. 288 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1986. Cloth, 288 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, slightly sunned, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Art Deco was the most important decorative style of the late 1920s and 1930s, and its expression in America was seen in virtually every area of the fine and decorative arts: architecture, sculpture, furniture, textiles, ceramics, silver, graphic arts, and jewelry." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Exhibitions; Furniture; Lighting and clocks; Silver; Metalware; Ceramics; Glass; Textiles; Architecture; Sculpture; Painting and graphics; Jewelry; World fairs; Industrial design.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

New York: Random House, 1975. Cloth, 154 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. A nice copy, well-illustrated. Gothic Revival architecture in the U.S.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. xvi, 281 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "In the nineteenth century, architects and family reformers launched promotional campaigns portraying houses no longer as simply physical structures in which families lived but as emblems for family cohesiveness and identity. Clark explains why, despite the fear of standardization and homogenization, the middle class has persisted in viewing the single-family home as the main symbol of independence as as the distinguishing sign of having achieved middle-class status." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: William Morrow; HarperCollinsPublishers, 2003. 342 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. "Among the Mansions of Eden is a fascinating and dishy exploration of Beverly Hills -- a rarefied community that has become a part of our country's mythos, a city renowned for its ostentatious displays of wealth. It takes you behind the gates of the rich and famous for an insider's view of the elite's rapturous and tragic attempts to realize the American Dream. From Rodeo Drive to Beverly Hills High School, Among the Mansions of Eden tells the city's story by capturing the individuals who are emblematic of various factions of Beverly Hills society: The cast of unforgettable characters includes the late Milton Berle, who spent his last days surrounded by aging cronies in the cavernous ballroom of the Friars Club, haunted by the ghosts… Leer más

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 1986. 62 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Richly illustrated with colour plates (art, architecture).. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Guidebook.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers; Icon Editions, 1973. 208 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Subtitle on wraps: Art Nouveau Architecture and Design. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Stated First U.S. Edition.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Dorset Press, 1986. 456 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. Covers Mesopotamia & Egypt.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, Inc.; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1986. Cloth, 606 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: PART ONE: THE ANCIENT WORLD. Architecture before Greece, by Marvin Trachtenberg and Isabelle Hyman; Greece, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Rome, by Marvin Trachtenberg. PART TWO: THE MIDDLE AGES. Early Christian and Byzantine architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Islam and the west, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Gothic architecture, by Marvin Trachtenberg. PART THREE: THE RENAISSANCE AND THE BAROQUE. The Renaissance/ Isabelle Hyman; The Baroque/ Isabelle Hyman. PART FOUR: THE MODERN WORLD. The eighteenth century, by Marvin Trachtenberg; The nineteenth century, by Marvin Trachtenberg; Modern… Leer más

Cologne: Taschen, 1991. 432 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Translated from the German. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: 1784-1916: Prologue. Of iron giants and glass virgins. The Chicago School; 1892-1925: L'Entree du siecle. In the far landscape. Circle and square. The modern factory. Creative in concrete; 1912-1939: The return of art. Volmetric experiments. Housing estates. Machines for living in. The international style. The new deal; 1944-1971: Case studies. Less is more. Stonebound. The flying roof. Concrete containers; 1956-1990: Learning from Las Vegas. The whites. Work on Modernism. The rational south. Open structures. The post-modern city. Bellevue. Concrete poems. Architecture for the arts. Biographies.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. xiii, 388 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. First paperback edition. Another copy available. "A philosophical and chronological history of architecture examines natural and man-made structures from ancient Greece to present-day Manhattan." - Publisher.. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc./Publishers, 1996. xii, 308 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "We admire a building or a group of buildings because they express, however subtly, certain images and ideas we have about ourselves. In this riveting study, Craig Whitaker reinterprets the American architectural landscape as the manifest vision of our collective conscience. Asserting that the built environment is shaped largely by cultural values, Whitaker dissects American architecture by revealing its archetypes and analyzing their origins in the national psyche. The result is a superbly evocative essay on how Americans think and live, and how these spheres are combined in our architecture. On a grand scale, Whitaker examines the ways in which our architectural eclecticism is rooted in the democratic notion of individual liberty upon which this nation was founded. From New York… Leer más

New York: George Braziller, 1974. viii, 178 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Harmondsworth: Penquin Books, 1971. 682 pages, illustrations, plans; 21 cm. Pelican history of art, 15. Good+. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. First paperback edition.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 8vo.