Author : Ronald Lambell
Publisher : Architectual Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
A series of measured drawings, accompanied by photographs and a short explanatory text, from French house interiors, this book aims at highlighting the details associated with the styles which developed between the mid-17th and early-19th centuries.
Author : Bertrand Lemoine
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 1998-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Covers the history of French architecture during the 19th century.
Author : Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 881 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0385353871
The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.
Author : J. Frazer Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0486142221
DIVRich survey ranges from pioneer cabins to French Provincial and Neoclassic revivals. Extensive commentary on each building, with over 100 detailed illustrations, including 36 floor plans. Bibliography. /div
Author : Sigfried Giedion
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,84 MB
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892363193
With Building in France, Building in Iron, Building in Ferroconcretre (1928)—published now for the first time in English—Sigfried Giedion positioned himself as an eloquent advocate of modern architecture. This was the first book to exalt Le Corbusier as the artistic champion of the new movement. It also spelled out many of the tenets of Modernism that are now regarded as myths, among them the impoverishment of nineteenth-century architectural thinking and practice, the contrasting vigor of engineering innovations, and the notion of Modernism as technologically preordained.
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Charles Scribner
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Interior decoration
ISBN :
Author : Shannon Lee Dawdy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226138437
Building the Devil’s Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans’s early years, tracing the town’s development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy’s picaresque account of New Orleans’s wild youth features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens her lens to reveal the port city’s global significance, examining its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism—where governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined—New Orleans should prompt us to reconsider our notions of how colonialism works. "[A] penetrating study of the colony's founding."—Nation “A brilliant and spirited reinterpretation of the emergence of French New Orleans. Dawdy leads us deep into the daily life of the city, and along the many paths that connected it to France, the North American interior, and the Greater Caribbean. A major contribution to our understanding of the history of the Americas and of the French Atlantic, the work is also a model of interdisciplinary research and analysis, skillfully bringing together archival research, archaeology, and literary analysis.”—Laurent Dubois, Duke University
Author : Natalie Avella
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 36,88 MB
Release : 2004-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781897597378
This essential new book takes you through all the stages of buying a house and moving to France, covering everything a non-French person needs to know about:? Buying a house in France- choosing the right area- the different property styles- looking for the right property- dealing with property agents- building your own house- arranging finance for the purchase- negotiating the property transaction? Moving to France- moving into your new house- getting all the paperwork right- opening bank accounts and tax- health and the French social security system- running a gite business- finding a job or starting a business in FrancePlus hundreds of tips and lots of advice on all those small matters that are key to making your purchase in France a success.All this is explained in straight-forward language, supported by a wealth of tables, contact details for further information, and many case studies of people who have bought property in France.Is this book for you?The book is for anyone looking to buy a property in France to use as a holiday home, to work from, or to start a new life abroad.It can be used as an active reference guide when "on the ground" in France, getting up early for that 8am appointment with an immobilier. But can also be used by people thinking about moving to France in the future, but who are not quite ready to make the move yet. This book highlights all the issues that you need to consider.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category :
ISBN :
Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.
Author : Elizabeth Emery
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 11,55 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351554263
Why did writers' private homes become so linked to their work that contemporaries began preserving them as museums? Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum addresses this and other questions by providing an overview of the social forces that brought writers' homes to the forefront of the French imagination at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. This study analyzes representations of the apartments and houses of Corneille, Hugo, Balzac, Dumas, Sand, Zola, Loti, Montesquiou, Mallarm?and Proust, among others, arguing that the writer's home became a contested space and an important part of the French patrimony at this time. This is the first book to emphasize the house museum as an essentially modern construct, and to trace the history of ideas leading to its institutionalization in twentieth-century France. The interdisciplinary study also brings new attention to the importance of photojournalism for fin-de-si?e France - and brings to light fascinating and forgotten examples of 'at home' photography by Dornac and Henri Mairet. Elizabeth Emery provides a fresh and compelling perspective on conjunctions between visual, literary, and material cultures.
