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Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: The House and Its History by Donald Hoffmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: DIY | Series: Dover Architecture
A total revision of the standard document on Fallingwater, the boldest, most personal architectural statement of Wright's mature years. Updated with valuable new material from the recently opened Frank Lloyd Wright Archives, the book gives special emphasis to Fallingwater's architectural innovations. "F ...Show more
Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House by Donald Hoffmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Design and Decorating | Series: Dover Architecture Ser.
At the behest of oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, the twentieth century's greatest architect created one of his most imaginative and controversial residential designs. Built in Hollywood in 1920-21, Hollyhock House attests to the genius of Frank Lloyd Wright. This splendid home and its construction are docu ...Show more
Hints on Household Taste - The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration by Charles L. Eastlake
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Architecture Ser.
One of the most important books in the history of 19th century interior design, serving as a basic source on what was proper, beautiful, and efficient for architects, manufacturers, and decorators. Eastlake details furnishings of all types, decorative objects, cupboards, colour combinations, carpeting a ...Show more
House in Good Taste - Design Advice from America's First Interior Decorator by Elsie De Wolfe
$29.99 AUD
Category: DIY | Series: Dover Architecture Ser.
In this timeless 1913 book, the "first lady" of American interior design defines her decorating methods and philosophy. Elsie de Wolfe pioneered the concept of the home as a representation of the owner's identity and her practical approach to creating spaces for gracious entertaining illuminate the atti ...Show more
My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright by John Lloyd Wright
$23.99 AUD
Category: Design and Decorating | Series: Dover Architecture Ser.
Charming, readable memoir, by his son, of Wright as architect of genius, father, and family man. The book also includes the complete text of William C. Gannet's The House Beautiful, an extremely rare work designed and printed by Frank Lloyd Wright. "...unconventional, amusing and on the whole revealing. ...Show more
Sears House Designs of the Thirties by Sears, Roebuck and Company Staff (Contribution by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Architecture Ser.
Proudly promoting itself as ""the largest home building organisation in the world,"" Sears, Roebuck and Company advertised in 1932 products in a handsome catalog that also displayed a full-size replica of Mount Vernon, created from Sears materials for a Paris exposition in 1932.At the heart of this now- ...Show more
Small Houses of the Twenties - The Sears, Roebuck 1926 House Catalog by Dover Staff; Sears, Roebuck and Company Staff
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Architecture Ser.
For almost 20 years, Sears, Roebuck and Company purveyed the materials for complete prefabricated houses, providing thousands of Americans with attractive and comfortable low-cost dwellings. Many of these homes are still a common feature in cities and towns across America.The present volume, a meticulou ...Show more
The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton; Ogden Codman
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Category: No Category | Series: Dover Architecture Ser.
Thousands of books on interior design have come and gone since the 1897 publication of this pioneering manual, but The Decoration of Houses remains, thanks to the insightful and inspiring advice of its co-authors. Before she became the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton ...Show more
Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright's Architecture by Donald Hoffmann
$32.99 AUD
Category: Design and Decorating | Series: Dover Architecture Ser.
"May be the best book on Wright ever written, with the exception of the master's own incomparable autobiography." -- New York Times Book ReviewDespite the vast literature about Frank Lloyd Wright, noted Wright scholar Donald Hoffmann contends that observations about Wright commonly fail to reach any und ...Show more
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