Category: Architecture/Interior Design

THE GUIDE TO TEXTILES FOR INTERIOR DESIGNERS. SECOND EDITION.

By: Jackman, Dianne R. and Dixon, Mary K.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Peguis, Winnipeg, MB, 1990, 2nd edition.

Seller ID: 18067

195 pp, 4to (11 1/4" H), hard cover (pictorial boards) - no dust jacket. B&w drawings, diagrams. ISBN 092054925 "This book focuses on the environmental textiles, those essential fabrics and coverings which provide not only visual color and textur e to an interior, but also meet the human needs for warmth, privacy, comfort and quiet. Basically, it will take the reader from fiber to finished goods and through the process of intelligent selection of particular textiles for specific applicat i o n s." Previous owner's name/date on free front endpaper, light edge wear, light rubbing, light wri...
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THE NATIONAL TRUST 1895-1995 100 GREAT TREASURES: 100 CELEBRITIES SELECT THEIR PERSONAL FAVOURITES FROM THE TRUST'S COLLECTION

By: Jackson-Stops, Gervase and Simon, Robin, Editors

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, National Trust / Apollo Magazine : 1995

Seller ID: 25929

ISBN-13: 9780952208150

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

80 pp, 12" H. Profusely illustrated in colour. J. Carter Brown, Nicholas Baring, Mark Girouard, Simon Jervis, Lucinda Lambton, James Lees-Milne, Jonathan Miller, Richard Baker, Lord Menuhin, Christopher Hogwood, Sir Hugh Casson, Lord Rothschild, Lady Emma Tennant, John Julius Norwich, David Gentleman, Bamber Gascoigne, Lady Mary Keen, Auberon Waugh, Sir Roy Strong, et al. describe their favourite furniture, rooms, portraits, landscapes, sculpture, follies, etc. from the National Trust's collection. Interior - several very small printing ink smudges on page 44, otherwise clean and tight with...
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AROUND THE HISTORIC CITY OF LONDON.

By: Jarvis, Stan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Bell & Hyman : 1981

Seller ID: 23757

ISBN-13: 9780713512496

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

127 pp, oblong (7 3/16" H x 8 3/8" D) - pictorial boards. B&w drawings, map. "No square mile in England is so packed with drama and history as the City of London. Here are the landmarks of the Roman occupation, the Great Fire, the Plague and the devastation of the Second World War. Here the visitor will find the centuries-old traditions of the livery halls and the bustling markets; the commercial heart of London in the great banks and finance houses; the simple dignity of Sir Christopher Wren's city churches; and the world-famous sights such as the Tower of London. Stan Jarvis's sympathetic t...
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ROBERT AM STERN: SELECTED WORKS. ARCHITECTURAL MONOGRAPHS NO 17.

By: Jencks, Charles, essays by. (Robert Stern.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Academy Editions, (London, 1991).

Seller ID: 12715

144 pp, 4to (12" H), soft cover with self-flaps. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photos, drawings, plans, elevations. "Robert Stern's work as an architect is indivisible from his abiding concern with history and historical style. He regards Post-Modernism not as a random recycling of past styles, but as a necessary liberation from what he calls the 'perennial present' of the Modern Movement. In the four essays reproduced in this Monograph he urges contemporary architects to widen their vocabulary, to learn from the past in order to 'reunite current production with the tradition...
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VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS.

By: Kemp, G. van der and Levron, J. Translated by Ethel Whitehorn.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Nicholas Kaye : 1958

Seller ID: 24213

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

238 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions - fold-out map at rear. Contents: Versailles in Literature; The Park; From the Village of Versailles to the Chateau of Louis XIV; Stages in Construction and Planning; The Splendour of the Reign in the Early Days of the Chateau; Decline and Misfortune; The Time of Louis the Well-Beloved; The Last Queen of Versailles; Neglected Glory; The Great and Small Apartments; The Museum of French History; The Trianons; Index. Book slightly bowed, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, three very small corner bumps, light shelf ...
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CREATING WOODEN VILLAGES. DESIGNS FOR 18 MINIATURE BUILDINGS.

By: Kern, Evan J.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole : 1997

Seller ID: 22735

ISBN-13: 9780811727822

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

113 pp, 11" H. B&w photographs, plans, drawings, color drawings, photographs. "In small towns all across America, there are houses and buildings that have been standing for more than a century - some for as long as 300 years. Now you can replicate these architectural treasures in miniature and create your own historic village. With the patterns and easy-to-follow instructions provided in this enchanting book, you can make these buildings and more: A Victorian railroad station; A Mansard house; A Tudor manor house; A one-room schoolhouse; A general store; A log tavern; An Italianate mansion; A...
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Image for PETERBOROUGH'S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: A LISTING OF EXISTING STRUCTURES ERECTED PRIOR TO 1890 IN THE AREA BOUNDED BY THE OTONABEE RIVER, PARKHILL ROAD, PARK STREET AND TOWNSEND STREET.

PETERBOROUGH'S ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE: A LISTING OF EXISTING STRUCTURES ERECTED PRIOR TO 1890 IN THE AREA BOUNDED BY THE OTONABEE RIVER, PARKHILL ROAD, PARK STREET AND TOWNSEND STREET.

By: Kidd, Martha Ann.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: (Peterborough, Ontario), Peterborough Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee : 1979

Seller ID: 28028

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

176 pp, 11" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Antrim Street; Aylmer Street; Bethune Street; Brock Street; Charlotte Street; College Street; Dalhouse Street; Dickson Street; Division Street; Donegal Street; Downie Street; Dublin Street; Edinburgh Street; Elcombe Crescent; George Street; Gilchrist Street; Harvey Street; Hunter Street; King Street; London Street; McDonnel Street; Murray Street; Park Street; Parkhill Road; Queen Street; Reid Street; Rubidge Street; Sherbrooke Street; Sheridan Street; Simcoe Street; Stewart Street; Union Street; Water St...
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PHILIP JOHNSON RECENT WORK. ARCHITECTURAL MONOGRAPHS NO 44. (PHILIP JOHNSON, RITCHIE & FIORE ARCHITECTS.)

By: Kipnis, Jeffrey. (Philip Johnson.)

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: (Academy Editions, London, 1996).

Seller ID: 12713

127 pp, 4to (12" H), soft cover with self-flaps. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w with photographs, drawings, plans. "The recent projects featured in this monograph chart another stage in the career of this architectural chameleon, now in his ninetieth year, and only serve to demonstrate his enthusiasm and propensity for new ideas and forms. In an informal interview with Frank Gehry and Jeffrey Kipnis, he discusses the accumulation and generation of these ideas through interaction with his contemporaries, including Frank Gehry himself and Peter Eisenman. The volume also reveals the m...
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CASTLE KILBRIDE: THE JEWEL OF WILMOT TOWNSHIP.

By: Knowles, Paul.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New Hamburg, Ontario, Commemorative Collectibles : 1994

Seller ID: 21797

ISBN-13: 9780969887300

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

96 pp, 4to (11" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. The story of a gracious home built in 1877 by industrialist James Livingston, left derelict and finally restored and opened as a musuem. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor rubbing, one minor corner crease.
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BAROQUE IN ITALY.

By: Lees-Milne, James.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, B.T. Batsford : 1959

Seller ID: 24780

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

216 pp, large 8vo (9" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, floor plans. "(Lees-Milne writes about) the development of building in Italy from the Mannerist period, that is, the later sixteenth century, to the emergence of Rococo in the early eighteenth century. (He) believes that Baroque in Italy was a religious manifestation, Latin, Catholic and primarily Roman and his book deals largely with ecclesiastical architecture in Rome itself. Piedmont was the next most important influence in the style, and so, after introducting the colossal personalities of Bernini, Borromini and their disciples, he...
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EDWARD JAMES LENNOX: "BUILDER OF TORONTO".

By: Litvak, Marilyn M.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn Press : 1995

Seller ID: 20057

ISBN-13: 9781550022049

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

118 pp, large 8vo (9 7/18" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, plans, elevations. "From 1876 to 1915, Edward James Lennox was a formidable force in Toronto's architectural community. Many of his buildings are still landmarks in a city that continues to evolve. Born and educated in Toronto, Lennox looked to the past for inspiration but was never captured by it. His prototypical Annex house on Madison Avenue, Old City Hall, and Casa Loma bear witness to his technical expertise and aesthetic sensibilities. Through text and illustrations, this volume tells the story of a resolute arch...
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A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH HOUSE: FROM PRIMITIVE TIMES TO THE VICTORIAN PERIOD.

By: Lloyd, Nathaniel.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Ware, Omega : 1985

Seller ID: 22526

ISBN-13: 9781850070771

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

487 pp, 4to (11" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, floor plans, drawings. "(This) reissue is prompted by the growth in general interest in historic buildings, for there is no work that provides such a complete record in text, pictures, plans and drawings of the whole development of English domestic architecture. Indeed, its value to scholars is literally unique, for Nathaniel Lloyd, who devoted a lifetime to its compilation, was able to record many buildings which have either disappeared or been altered out of recognition. The book is divided into two parts. The first part consi...
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GROPIUS: THE MAN WHO BUILT THE BAUHAUS.

By: MacCarthy, Fiona

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap / Harvard University Press : 2019

Seller ID: 31031

ISBN-13: 9780674737853

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

547 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w and colour photographs, reproductions. "The impact of Walter Gropius can be measured in his buildings - Fagus Factory, Bauhaus Dessau, Pan Am - but no less in his students. I.M. Pei, Paul Rudolph, Anni Albers, Philip Johnson, Fumihiko Maki: countless masters were once disciples at the Bauhaus in Berlin and at Harvard. Between 1910 and 1930, Gropius was the center of European modernism, and avant-garde society glamor, only to be exiled to the antimodernist United Kingdom during the Nazi years. Later, under the democratizing influence of American universities, he became an...
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THE FACE OF EARLY TORONTO: AN ARCHIVAL RECORD 1797-1936.

By: Martyn, Lucy Booth.

Price: $47.50 USD

Publisher: Sutton West, Ontario, Paget Press : 1982

Seller ID: 19411

ISBN-13: 9780920348246

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

157 pp, oblong 8vo (9" H x 11 1/4" D). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, maps, reproductions. "(Collects) in pictorial and narrative form many of Toronto's unique early buildings, their architect-builders and the personages who significantly influenced their development. The genre of building illustrated evolves from the early Custom and Registry Offices, through the turn of the century public buildings, to the Hotels and Theatres of the 1930s. Being captured in this volume are many of the long extinct and most of the virtually unpublished faces of Toronto, including the rare app...
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TRUE NEWFOUNDLANDERS: EARLY HOMES AND FAMILIES OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR.

By: McBurney, Margaret and Byers, Mary. Inscribed by both authors.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Boston Mills Press : 1997

Seller ID: 22808

ISBN-13: 9781550461992

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, large 8vo (10" H). "(This book) is the compelling story of the people of Newfoundland and Labrador - the heroes and the scoundrels, the rich merchants, and the poor fishermen, politicians and priests - the people who built this fascinating and complex province." The authors use as their departure point the buildings that were at the centre of these people's lives - their homes, churches, courthouses and lighthouses. Well-illustrated with many b&w and colour photographs. Very light edgewear to boards, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at edges - ma...
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CZECH ARCHITECTURE OF THE LUXEMBURG PERIOD.

By: Mencl, Vaclav.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Artia, Prague, (1955).

Seller ID: 8666

61 pp, text + 186 b&w reproductions at rear, 4to, hard cover in dust jacket. Beautiful b&w photographs showing buildings and architectural details. Contents: Introduction; The History of Czech Gothic Architecture; The Period of 1350-60; The Perio d of 1360-70; The Period of 1370-80; The Period of 1380-90; The Period of 1390-1420; List of Illustrations. Focuses largely on Prague Castle and various churches. Light stains to margins of page with plates 43 & 44, tiny tear/chip to bo t t o m o f p a g es (with plates 66-76) at gutter, slight bump to top of spine, covers slightly curved. Dust...
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NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE: THE OLD HISTORICAL TOWN.

By: Mike, Nick and Helma, with Nancy Butler and Joy Ormsby.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Belleville, Ontario, Mika Publishing : 1990

Seller ID: 30927

ISBN-13: 9780921341369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

120 pp, oblong (8 3/4" H x 9 1/4" D). Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. A brief overview of the history of the picturesque town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, followed by a pictorial section giving details of many of its architectural highlights. Book is Near Fine. Dust jacket has light wrinkling at the top of the spine and flap folds, light browning on the flaps, very light rubbing.
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THE WORLD'S GREATEST ROYAL PALACES. INCLUDING THE ROYAL PALACES OF OSLO, STOCKHOLM AND COPENHAGEN.

By: Morelli, Marcello, editor. (Maria Luisa Moncassoli Tibone, Salvatore Ciro Nappo, Milena Ercole Pozzoli, Giuseppe Mazzocchi, Michael Leech, Maria Longhena, Paola Calore, Heidi Bocker, Peter Kristiansen, Frantisek Kadlec, Thomas Thiis-Evensen, et al.

Price: $65.00 USD

Publisher: Hoo, Rochester, Grange : 2000

Seller ID: 23064

ISBN-13: 9781840133738

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

304 pp, folio (14 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated in colour. "Built to astonish and to celebrate the magnificence of the most powerful families in the world, royal palaces and houses are the consequences of an age in which the splendor and opulence of a prince or a people could be measured by the decor of a salon, by the grandeur of a building or the originality of a fountain. Suspended between the sky and the earth, as occurred in the Far East, or solidly rooted to the ground, as was the norm in Europe, the house of the monarch has always been the meeting point of two minds: that of the maste...
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THE FIFTH BOOK OF PILGRIMAGES TO OLD HOMES.

By: Moss, Fletcher.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Didsbury, Published By Author : 1910

Seller ID: 30717

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

426 pp, 10 1/4" H. Brick-coloured cloth over bevelled boards, gilt lettering on spine and front board, gilt illustration on front board, top edge gilt. 212 b&w illustrations. Contents: A Crusader's Home - Plowden; The Last Stronghold of Caratacus; Worsley Old Hall; Clayton Hall; Turton Tower; Tatton Old Hall; The Roman Wall; The Borderland of Paradise; Lee Hall, Ellesmere; Winfield Manor; Temple Newsam; Crewe Hall; Nantwich to Market Drayton; A Lonely Wandering in Wildest Wales; Tim Bobbin; Some Family Relics; A Beautiful Burial; Index. Heavy browning the the free endpapers, moderate to hea...
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OLD KENTUCKY ARCHITECTURE. COLONIAL, FEDERAL, GREEK REVIVAL, GOTHIC, AND OTHER TYPES ERECTED PRIOR TO THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES.

By: Newcomb, Rexford.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Bonanza

Seller ID: 24440

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

Unpaginated foreword, introductory essay and list of plates plus 130 b&w plates (photographs, plans, drawings) and frontispiece, 4to (12 1/8" H, hard cover in dust jacket. Copyright 1940. "Forming originally a part of the state of Virginia, Kentucky was peopled largely from Virginia and nearby colonies; thus the economic system, the social fabric and the cultural outlook of Kentucky resembles these features of life in the Old Dominion. Bringing with them a love of classic architecture engendered by association with the great houses in the valleys of the James and the Potomac, it is no surprise...
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Category: Architecture/Interior Design