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In the late 1880s, two supreme talentsarchitect Richard Morris Hunt and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstedwere brought together by the Vanderbilt fortune. The result was the magnificent Biltmore Estate, explored here in archival and new color... [ More...]
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For Neel Reid and this book we must think back seventy years and more, to another time — of porte cocheres and sleeping porches, French doors and parterre gardens, trellises and pergolas, porticoes and fanlights, summerhouses and servants' quarters... [ More...]
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- History of Florida wood-frame architecture, from the simplest "single-pen" homesteads to the latest homes at Seaside - The double-pen house, the classic dogtrot, the four-square Georgian, and the Cracker townhouse - Cracker homes take best advantage... [ More...]
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Architecture on Florida's Key West reflects the diverse and colorful nature of those who have shaped this remote island's character: the grand classical homes of sea captains from New England, the cobbled-together wooden dwellings of ships' carpenters, the... [ More...]
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Paul Rudolph, one of the 20th century's most iconoclastic architects, is best known and most maligned for his large 'brutalist' buildings, like the Yale Art and Architecture Building. So it will surprise many to learn that early in his career he developed a... [ More...]
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Reprint of rare, handsome volume illustrates more than 30 Florida residences designed by great architect in imaginative adaptations of Spanish Colonial style. Also, such landmark creations as the Everglades Club, Via Parigi, the Singer Building, The... [ More...]
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More than 100 sketches of common house types and styles, maps of the city showing the architectural development in each period, and a glossary of architectural terms make New Orleans Houses a reference guide as well as an art book.
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The definitive book on Taxas interior design and architecture--from log cabins to urban lofts to sprawling Hill Country ranches--by the expert on Taxas style.
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Gleason, whose previous full-color photography books have sold close to 100,000 copies, here provides a grand tour of Virginia's distinctive plantation homes. 146 color photos.
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Profusely illustrated survey ranges from pioneer cabins to French Provincial and Neoclassic revivals. Over 100 detailed illustrations, including 36 floor plans, depict such venerable residences as The Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's homestead near Nashville;... [ More...]
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