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The Art Deco House by: Adrian Tinniswood List Price: £19.99 City Travel Guides Price: £13.99 You Save: £6.00 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback EAN: 9781845331801 ISBN: 184533180X Label: Mitchell Beazley Manufacturer: Mitchell Beazley Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: November 17, 2005 Publisher: Mitchell Beazley Studio: Mitchell Beazley Sales Rank: 24364 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Synopsis: The key domestic buildings of the Art Deco period by some of the greatest architects and designers of the 20th century. Today the Art Deco style enjoys a popularity unrivalled since its inception at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, from which the style takes its name. In spite of this, the role of Art Deco in defining domestic architecture is often neglected. Divided into five chapters on five key styles of Art Deco house, this book showcases over 34 fantastic houses by some of the great architects of the 20th century, including Le Corbusier, Norman Bel Geddes, and Richard Neutra. Art Deco icons such as Miami Beach, the Maison de Verre, and Eltham Palace are included amongst lesser-known gems such as Michael Scott's Geragh in Ireland and Eckart Muthesius's Manik Bagh in India. Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - Become an Art Deco house fanaticI have a love of all things Art Deco, and this book has helped build my passion and understanding. Its probably not a book you'd read from beginning to end, but instead dip in and out of. For this purpose, its perfectly designed. Each chapter is an individual creation (house, apartment, housing estate....). It gives the background on the architect and who the building was commissioned for. So, its not just a review of the architecture, but puts the building and its creation into social context. As well as including a few of the more well known Art Deco buidlings (such as the Isokon apartments) it includes many that you probably don't know. As you would expect from a book of this nature, it includes lots of wonderful ... Read More: Rating: - Excellent text and photos in a dull layoutThere are some glorious colour photos in this book of Art Deco (or Moderne) houses. Twenty-nine are featured as well as places like Miami Beach, Los Angeles apartments and Napier, New Zealand. This last place is the Deco capital of the southern hemisphere and I think there should have been more photos than just the four shown. Each house starts on a spread (frequently with a photo of the architect) and Adrian Tinniswood explains in detail the thinking behind the design. He also writes additional essays on other aspects of Deco style. Unfortunately there are no plans to any of the houses, something I would have thought was fairly essential to a book of historical architecture. I've always wanted to see a plan of the amazing Butler ... Read More: |
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