Author : Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 34,27 MB
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780486290829
Recreate a splendid shingle-style house based on an authentic New Jersey suburban home built in 1907. Step-by-step instructions and complete assembly diagrams.
Author : Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 1996-10-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486292762
Step-by-step instructions and clear assembly diagrams for re-creating a delightful dwelling modeled after an 1887 Queen Anne–style California home. The coral, turquoise, and blue structure includes towering red brick chimneys, a shingled turret, wraparound front porch, gazebo, and other distinctive features.
Author : Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 1989-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486260178
Reconstruct 19th-century plantation: splendid main house with colonnades, two wings, carriage house, slave quarters, fence, more. Complete instructions, exploded diagrams.
Author : Mark Girouard
Publisher :
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300034721
A study of Britain's great nineteenth-century houses examines their architects, and the social, technological, and economic conditions that made the massive structures possible
Author : Edmund V. Gillon, Jr.
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486253686
Designed in 1908 as a suburban residence for a Chicago businessman, the Robie House embodied the full spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s pioneering "prairie school" of design. Today, this masterpiece of modern architecture remains a classic example of the builder’s ideas and ideals. Long, low, streamlined and exemplary of the prairie’s spaciousness, the Robie House profoundly influenced the course of American architecture — so much so that a model of Wright’s innovative structure has long been on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Now model builders as well as lovers of fine architecture can construct an accurate three-dimensional model of the Robie House, and thereby discover for themselves the harmonious interrelationships of parts and numerous other design details that make this home a world-famous architectural masterpiece. Printed in full color on sturdy card stock, the model comes complete with step-by-step instructions and exploded diagrams. A series of multi-level horizontal planes includes balconies, platforms, a porch and entrance court, while easy-to-follow directions clearly explain how to cut, fold and glue walls, doorways, windows, roof and other features. Students of architecture, miniaturists and paper engineers will delight in recreating an outstanding example of American residential architecture, which, in Wright’s own words, has become "a source of worldwide inspiration."
Author : Arnold Lewis
Publisher : New York : Dover Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Brilliant photos of 1870s, 1880s, showing finest domestic, public architecture; many buildings now gone. 120 plates.
Author : Alastair Gordon
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,21 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781616892371
Andrew Geller was known as the architect of happiness and it's easy to see why. Sporting names like The Box Kite, The Bra, and The Reclining Picasso, his whimsical vacation homes of the 1950s and 1960s dotted the coasts of Long Island, Martha's Vineyard, and the Jersey Shore. Made mostly of wood, they combined a modern interest in light, breeze, and functional living with playful form-making. In contrast to the today's Hamptons megamansions, Geller's inexpensive homes were modest in scale and reflected the ideas of summer leisure of a generation more concerned with fun on the beach than ostentatious display. Now available in paperback, Beach Houses features more than fifty of these spirited houses in rarely seen vintage photographs and drawings.
Author : Judith Flanders
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
A middle class home, circa 1850, of the sort that many people live in today, is the focus of Judith Flanders' book. The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. In the most prosperous and technologically advanced nation in the world, people carried slops up and down stairs; buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mould forming; wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. This drudgery was routinely performed by the parents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Running water, stoves, flush lavatories - even lavatory paper - arrived slowly throughout the century; and most were luxuries available only to the prosperous.
Author : Keith Moskow
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1580935680
Each year the pristine beaches, lush pine forests, and picturesque New England towns of Martha’s Vineyard draw tens of thousands of admirers to this beautiful island. Some of these visitors have become part-time residents, building contemporary homes alongside the traditional Victorian cottages, sea captains’ mansions, and colonial farmhouses that comprise the island’s cultural and architectural heritage. Rarely does one find such a concentration of outstanding contemporary design. Authors Keith Moskow and Robert Linn expand their 2005 survey of Vineyard residential design to present twenty-five new houses that extend the traditional Vineyard vernacular of shingled houses and cottages. Each of the architects has described the goals for the project and the source of the design. Some reference nautical themes, others environmental concerns, and still others appropriateness of materials and scale. A significant number rely on a plan strategy based on a series of pavilions to minimize intrusion in the landscape while still taking advantage of views and prevailing breezes. What links the houses is that they are all built to stand the test of time in the sometimes extreme marine environment and they respectfully break with tradition.
Author : Sherry Petersik
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1579656765
This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.
