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C.F.A. Voysey: an architect of individuality
Lund Humphries 1979
160pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Square 4to. Wraps. Good copy of this scarce assessment of Voysey's career. A little browned on the spine. From the collection of David Hinge with his bookplate on inside of wrapper.
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Chipperfield Mather Parry Stanton & Williams: Four London Architects 1985-1988
London Architectural Press 9H Gallery 1987
48pp illustrated with b/w and colour images. Square 4to. Wrappers with overprinted dust wrapper. Exhibition catalogue featuring four architectural practices.
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Colour of an Architect: David Chipperfield
Hamburg Gallerie fur Architektur Renate Kammmer und Angelike Hinrichs 1994
64pp illustrated. 4to. Wrappers which are a little foxed and yellowed. Exhibition catalogue. Autographed letter signed from David Chipperfield to Tony Neville, gifting the book to him. Text in German. English summary at the end explaining this was the second exhibition on architecture held by the gallery, the first having featured Peter Eisenman. Hard to find.
Stock ID: 21545More details Price: £95.00 -
Construction for Schools
Trade Catalogue
Wills, Albion Road, West Bromwich undated c1952
20pp illustrated with b/w plates showing interiors and exteriors of schools + plans and diagrams the latter on green pages. Long 4to. Very good copy Hinchcliffe had founded Hills in 1932 as a patent glazing company. It then rapidly expanded and had divisions making steel window frames, roof lights and light steel structural. Loosely inserted letter to E D Haigh, RIBA Kendal accompanying the brochure and discussing their design approaches. Air view of Hemel Hempstead Primary School by C H Aslin on title page. Describes the Presweld system of construction. Lots of examples of school buildings created from the modular and prefabricated system the firm developed.
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Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire Catalogue of Interesting sale of Valuable Antique and Contemporary Fitments, Fixtures, Parts of old Fabric etc.
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Documentation of Centre Le Corbusier published in connection with the Inauguration
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Dome Book 1 and Dome Book 2
Los Gatos CA Pacific Domes 1970 and 1971
]. Book 1: 57 pages, with bibliography and unclassified ads. at end. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographic images, drawings and diagrams. The name "Chait" along with some mathematical workings on first page along with some underlining. Book 2: 127pp illustrated. Both volumes have a few annotations in both volumes in the same hand. These are 2 important publications to read to learn the basics of geodesic dome structures but actually are really one item: Both are age toned and a bit worn round the edges but packed with information on constructing domes.
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English Church Woodwork. A Study in Craftsmanship during the medieval period A.D. 1250-1550
London, B.T.Batsford Ltd 1917 1917
xiipp subscribers lists + xxxiii+370pp with extensive b/w photographs throughout. Small 4to. Decorated cloth. Very good. Cloth slightly rubbed and some scattered foxing on end papers. First Edition. Includes chapters on structural woodwork, Sanctuary, Quire, Screens, Roods and Lofts, Nave, and Tombs and Movable Fittings.
Stock ID: 21308More details Price: £60.00 -
Eva Jiricna Designs -
London Architectural Association Mega VI 1987
43pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates and line illustrations. Small folio. Black wrappers. Czech-born architect Eva Jiricna provides the architectural setting for some of the most stylist fashion outlets in London, Paris, Germany and the USA, it features 12 of her London schemes. A fully illustrated interview tells the story of her background in Czechoslovakia and the impact on her work of the architectural scene she discovered on moving to London after the Soviet invasion of Prague in 1968. The book includes contribution by John Thackara and a conversation with Alvin Boyarsky. Slightly rubbed at base of front wrapper and edges a little dusty. Internally very good. Hard to find.
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Fantastic Architecture [1960]
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First Russian then Tibet
London Macmillan and Co 1933
First edition. illustrated with drawings and photographs, mostly by the author including coloured frontispiece. Colour frontis. Blue cloth. Good. No dust wrapper. Bright copy. A little bumped at corners. With bookplate of Colin Amery. Byron travelled to India in 1929 as special correspondent for the Daily Express, and also took in Tibet. An appreciation of architecture is a strong element in Byron's writings. He was a forceful advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and a founder member of the Georgian Group. His interest in architecture shines through in this book.
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Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier
New York Oxford University Press 1975
137pp illustrated in black and white with photographs, line illustrations including architects' drawings. Square 4to. Laminated white wrappers with list of architects featured on upper wrapper. Wrappers slightly aged. Leading edge of upper wrapper slightly bumped. Written in the early 1970's against a puzzling backdrop & burgeoning interest in post modern architecture & design. Very good images. Stamp from Architectural Press on half title indicating it had been received for review.
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Foreword by Mary Lutyens. Fulbrook: A house you would love to live in.
Malborough Libanus Press 1989
Limited edition no XVIII of 300 copies. Two vols. Volume i 90pp drawings, tipped in b/w illustrations, facsimile letter. Volume ii. 46pp. Facsimile of the hand written Specification of Works. Large 8vo. Cloth slipcase. Leather spines, wit gilt lettered titles, cream cloth covered boards overprinted with decorative motifs and titles. Fine. Fulbrook was built for Mr A Streatfield at Elstead, Essex in 1897. One of Lutyen's vernacular style houses. Lovely item. "Stonework, oak casements and exaggerated sprocketed roofs" See Dan O'Neill Lutyen's Country Houses page 39. From the collection of Colin Amery with his bookplate. [ Designed by Gavin Stamp ]
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Formes et Vie: Revue trimestrielle de synthèse des arts.
Paris, éditions Falaize (Georges Fall), 1951-1952
In original glassine packages, these a little browned. Volume 1 is spiral bound and Volume 2 stapled. Volume 1 42 pages illustrated with b/w plates line ills etc. Colour wrappers designed by Le Corbusier. 310x240mm. 42 pages including an extract on the CIAM 1951 Conference, written by Le Corbusier. Volume 2. 34pp. Text in French and English. The magazine was planned as a This planned tri-yearly journal was designed to "define the aspects of form and its static or dynamic development with the collaboration of architects, plastics artists, designers, engineers, biologists aestheticians, and psychiatrists." However only two issues were ever produced. Hard to find.
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George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America
London Yale University Press 2014
352 pp. High quality b/w and colour photographs throughout. Large 4to. Fine, in cloth boards and decorated dust wrapper. The first comprehensive exploration of the life and work of this major Gothic Revival architect, who believed that every element of a building must be part of an integrated design strategy. Commemorates the 140th anniversary of Bodley's founding of Watts & Company in 1874, to produce ecclesiastical vestments, textiles, and wallpapers. Lavishly illustrated featuring over 200 images. Presents impeccable scholarship on the work of an influential visionary of Victorian design.
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German Architecture and the Classical Ideal 1740-1840
London Thames and Hudson.1987.
296pp, index, map, bibliography, 263 ills with 9 in colour. Cloth. 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. The book is divided into two parts: the first is an historical account that sets German neo-classicism in context and the second is a gazetteer in which important buildings both existing and destroyed are listed and described. An invaluable resource for this particular subject.
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Grinling Gibbons and the Woodwork of his Age
London Country Life 1914
i-xii, 260pp incl. 234 b/w illustrations. Folio Publisher's white buckram spine, boards with imitation wood finish. A key study of this master woodcarver as a designer and sculptor, exhaustively illustrated from the archives of Country Life. Rather worn edges.
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Gunnar Asplund 1885-1940: The Dilemma of Classicism
London Architectural Association 1988
47pp with colour and b/w images, many of which are full page. Large 4to in paper wraps with decoratedwrapper over. Vg indeed. A detailed and beautifully illustrated critical assessment of Asplund's work and position in architectural history. Hard to find.
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Handbook to the Cathedral Church of Ely with some account of the monastic buildings
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Heron "Sets + Things" Catalogue of an Exhibition at RIBA Heinz Gallery September 14th to October 21st 1989
London RIBA 1989
20pp illustrated with colour and b/w plates. Square 4to. Laminated wrappers which are decorated with colour images. Review of Ron Herron's career, practice and projects.
Stock ID: 21942More details Price: £25.00