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Industrial Buildings
Conservation and Regeneration
London E & FN Spon 2000
viii + 232pp with many b/w and colour images throughout. 4to in paper boards with colour dw. Vg. With contributions by industrial archaeologists, architects, and experts in regenration and community planning.
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Inigo Jones: Complete Architectural Drawings.
The Drawing Centre, 1989.
336pp, 36 col. illus. b/w photographs, plans and drawings. This is the first single-volume catalogue of all Jones' 93 surviving architectural drawings. Each drawing is accompanied by full technical descriptions and commentary. Wraps.
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Interiors book of Hotels and Motor Hotels
New York Whitney Library of Design 1963
252pp illustrated with 100s of b/w plates and a few in colour. Large 4to. Cloth Very good with slightly worn dust wrapper. International survey of hotel designs. Each chapter is accompanied by a photo portfolio of a particular hotel or motel design. a book for designers of hotels. Super period piece for the 1950s and 1960s.
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International Exhibition of Modern and Commercial Architecture
London RIBA 1929
34pp. 8vo Paper wrapper,slight rubbing + small tear to the base of the spine otherwise good. Catalogue for the exhibition held at R.I.B.A Galleries, Conduit Street 1929. The aim of the exhibition was to prove that commercial architecture could be good architecture and there are lists of major new commercial developments in the catalogue. 351 items including cinemas, garages, offices etc drawn from world wide locations.
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James Gandon Vitruvius Hibernicus
London: Zwemmer 1981
222pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. Photographs by David Davison. Large 4to. Very good in dust wrapper. Hard to findbut useful monograph.
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James Gibbs
New Haven and London Yale University Press 1985
362pp. illustrated throughout in b/w photographs and a few colour illustrations. 4to. Cloth boards with gilt title lettering on spine. Very good copy in original dust wrapper.
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James Wyatt, 1746-1813 Architect to George III
London Yale University Press 2012
400pp, 150 colour and 170 b/w plates. 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognised as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. This text interweaves information about his projects and life. The book reviews the complex connections formed by his web of wealthy patrons and his influence on both his contemporaries and successors and includes details of Ashridge and other sites where both he and Capability Brown were involved. Fabulous illustrations throughout as well as useful appendices on projects and even the books in his library.
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John Campell: Dediscovery of an Arts and Crafts Architect
London The Prince of Wales Insitute of Architecture 1997
60pp illus with b/w plates and line ills. Small Square 4to. Wrappers. Very good copy. Campbell 1878-1947 is little known. Worked in England and Germany and this is the first book about his life and work.
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John Nash Architect of the Picturesque
London English Heritage 2013
198pp illustrated. Essays on aspects of his work. 4to. Boards. Very good copy with very good dust wrapper. The aim of this book, which originated in a symposium held by the Georgian Group in September 2009, was to bring together this recent scholarship in a single volume. Useful collection of essays on Country houses, Regent Street and London work etc.
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John Ruskin: The Early Years 1819-1859
London Yale University Press 1985
301pp illustrated with b/w plates. Very good with good dust wrapper. Loosely inserted A.L.S. typed from Tm Hilton to John Hutchinson, architectural historian and Ruskin devotee. Hilton was responding to detailed remarks about his book made by John Hutchinson.
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L'Art Decoratif D'Aujourd'hui
Paris, Editions Vincent Freal & Co (1925) 1959 Collection de "L'Esprit Nouveau" 1959
218pp illustrated with b/w plates and line ills. throughout. Decorated wraps. Vg indeed. Revised edition of one of the original L'Esprit Nouveau, promoting the works and ideas of Le Corbusier and his contemporaries. From the library of Kenneth and Diana Rowntree without signatures.
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La ferronnerie Moderne. 3eme serie.
Paris, Ch. Moreau, 1930
(8) pages et 32 planches en heliogravure. Loose leaf portfolio with stylish modernist design and ribbon ties. Cover a little scuffed, otherwise a good copy with bright clean plates. A brief introduction in French by Clouzot is accompanied by single-sided stiff card plates depicting superb art-deco wrought iron-work. A stunning resource for 1930s metalwork and design applied to fixtures and furnishings, interior and exterior.
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Light box
London Architectural Association Box 1 1985
32pp text-booklet ('sketchbook'), + collection of material comprising piece of silk screened fabric, tin & copper-plate, 'chessboard' & two circuit boards. 320x320mm in presentation purple box with decorative gilt title on front. Vg. With introductory essays by: Dawn Ades, Nigel Coates, J. Christopher Joner, John Thackara. Collection of material for Daniel Weil's 'Light Box' installation. Mechanism of opening box slightly damaged because of poor assembly when made. Hard to find. The box explores the 1980s works of the 1980s. Best known for his deconstructed radio in a clear bag which challenged the idea of audio equipment always being in a black box.
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Liturgy and Architecture
Barrie and Rockliff 1960
xv+191pp,53 b/w photographs+many line drawings. With slightly worn d/w. With Reyner Banham's bookplate on front paste down. On re-ordering of churches to meet modern liturgical forms.
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London Airport Central Terminal Buildings
Stock ID: 20947More details Price: £95.00
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London Airport Developments in the Central Terminal Building
Stock ID: 20946More details Price: £125.00
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Low Cost Suburban Homes
a book of suggestions for the man with the moderate purse.
Stock ID: 21972More details Price: £110.00
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MACFARLANES CASTINGS 6th edition 2 volumes + price list as a separate booklet.
Stock ID: 22070More details Price: £375.00
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Mario Botta
Public Buildings 1990-1998
Motta 2009
119pp. Colour and b/w photographs, diagrams and line ills. Small square 4to. Graphic decorated boards. Fine. Superbly illustrated Monograph on Botta's work, featuring photography of his projects but also of an installation which used architectural models to articulate the austerity of neoclassical space. With a chapter outlining Botta's philosophy.
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Mart Stam: documentation of his work 1920-1965
RIBA Publications Ltd 1970
40pp illus with b/w plates. Blue wrappers with title lettering and texts. Based on a special issue of Bouwkundig Weekblad of December 1969. Includes a very useful source for his work and career. Stam was widely known in the Bauhaus circle and knew Ernest May. He remained active in the post war period at the Academy for Fine and Applied Art at Dresden and Berlin.
Stock ID: 22144More details Price: £25.00