Gothic Style: Architecture and Interiors from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

Mahoney, Kathleen

ISBN 10: 0810933810 / ISBN 13: 9780810933811

Verlag: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York, 1995

Beschreibung

Cloth, 264 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Principal photography by Michael Dunne; additional photographs by John Mahoney and Nigel Hudson. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Gothic Revival style. *** "From mock ruins and other fanciful garden follies to extravagant manor houses and castles, from simple cottages to Hudson River villas and the mansions of Palm Beach, author Kathleen Mahoney examines Gothic's inventive and exuberant design heritage over the last three centuries. Some 30 structures - many open to the public - in the United States and Great Britain are explored inside and out in beautiful full-color photographs and historic engravings. In addition, the author weaves an intriguing social history that conveys the romantic spirit with which tastemakers, architects, and designers have captured the medieval past." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The English Landscape Garden; Cottages & Garden Dwellings; Gothick Manor Houses of the Eighteenth Century; Nineteenth-Century Castles & a Gothic Transformation; The Arrival of Gothic in the United States; The Flowering of American Gothic; As a Nation Matures, Gothic is Transformed. Size: 4to. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 106577

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Titel: Gothic Style: Architecture and Interiors ...

Verlag: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1995

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

Auflage: 1st.

Art des Buches: Collectible

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From mock ruins and other fanciful garden follies to extravagant manor houses and castles, from simple cottages to Hudson River villas and the mansions of Palm Beach, author Kathleen Mahoney examines Gothic's inventive and exuberant design heritage over the last three centuries. Some 30 structures - many open to the public - in the United States and Great Britain are explored inside and out in beautiful full-color photographs and historic engravings. In addition, the author weaves an intriguing social history that conveys the romantic spirit with which tastemakers, architects, and designers have captured the medieval past.