David Adler, Architect: The Elements of Style
 An astounding visual and descriptive tour: Knowledgeably edited by Martha Thorne, featuring essays by Richard Guy Wilson, Pauline C. Metcalf, and Ghenete Zelleke, and enhanced with color photography by Bob Harr and Hedrich Blessing, David Adler, [... more]
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Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's ...
DIVThis beautiful book focuses on Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany's extraordinary country estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Beginning in 1902, Tiffany (1848-1933) designed every aspect of the immense home, which had eighty-four rooms and [... more]
$41.73
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American Architects and Their Books to 1848
Since the Renaissance, books and drawings have been a primary means of communication among architects and their colleagues and clients. In this volume, twelve historians explore the use of books by architects in America in the late eighteenth and early [... more]
$14.25
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Prodigy Houses of Virginia: Architecture and the Native ...
Mooney's study offers a valuable and new insight into some of Virginia's and also Colonial America's most visible remains, the great houses of Virginia. It is a book that will revolutionize the study of early American architecture through its close look [... more]
$66.67
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The Sarasota School of Architecture
Foreword by Michael Sorkin Introduction by Richard Guy Wilson Inflected by local climate, construction practices, regional culture, and Florida lifestyle, the work of the Sarasota school of architecture marks a high point in the development of regional [... more]
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Colonial Revival House
From the Publisher:A celebration of early American house forms, the Colonial Revival emerged in the late 19th century and was quickly embraced by the American public. It has remained the nation's style of choice for well over a hundred years, appearing [... more]
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Magic Facade: The Austin House
In 1930 twenty-nine-year-old Chick Austin and his wife, Helen Goodwin built a house on one of the grandest streets in Hartford. It was a pastiche inspired by a sixteenth-century Palladian villa they had seen near Venice on their honeymoon, but instead of [... more]
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Historic Houses of Virginia: Great Mansions, Plantations ...
bKathryn Masson/b, the author of Rizzoli'siSanta Barbara Style/i,iNapa Valley Style/i, andiSonoma Valley Style/i, lives in the hunt country of northern Virginia.bCalder Loth/bis senior architectural historian at the Virginia Department of Historic [... more]
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The Machine Age in America: 1918-1941
Speed lines revealed: I'm surprised that this important book hasn't had a customer review before now. Published in 1986 to coincide with an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and if you look in the bibliography of any book about Moderne/Streamline design [... more]
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American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age
A COFFEE TABLE BOOK--With CONTENT!: This is a great book for anyone interested in or appreciative of modern design and aesthetics. The book itself is beautiful, and all the color reproductions inside are sleek, clean, and inspiring. The author has the [... more]
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Richmond's Monument Avenue
love this book: lots of old pictures of Monument Ave. If you have ever visiting this area, you need this book. A glorious book: An incredible documentation of the only street in America to have its own National Landmark status. The authors did their [... more]
$45.00
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Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House
HARBOR HILL: Harbor Hill was one of the most spectacular mansions ever built in America. Designed by the iconic Stanford White and built to embody the MacKays desire to accend to the pinacle of NYC society. This book charts the rise of the MacKays and [... more]
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