Great Interiors.
Grant, Ian (edited); Beaton, Cecil (preface).
Place Published: London:
Publisher: Hamlyn Publishing Grouop Limited,
Date Published: 1971.
Description: 9-3/4" x 12-1/2". REPRINT (originally published in 1967). 288 pages including Acknowledgements and 40 plates in full color and about 200 illlustrations in black and white. The book NEAR FINE with small bump to bottom board edge; board edges lightly worn. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor shelfwear. Comes with a BRODART acrylic jacket cover. This is a very LARGE and HEAVY book and may require additional postage. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. The dust jacket reads:The rooms and interiors illustrated and described in this book range from the most sumptuously extravagant to the most coldly, austere. They reflect the constantly shifting and contrasting patterns of the tastes of civilised man, and highlight the ambitions and ideals of successive generations of architects and designers. The aim has been to provide an illustrated account of some of the finest interiors in the western world, from 1650 to modern times. This account, which has been prefaced by Cecil Beaton, is divided into seven sections, each covering a separate period and each written by one of a team of distinguished writers - Ralph Dutton, Helena Hayward, Terence Davis, Peter Fleetwood-Hesketh, Denys Hinton, Ashley Barker and Robert Furneaux Jordon - who describe the trends and development in style of each period. The text is illustrated not only with contemporary drawings and engravings, including architects' original designs, but also with a superb collection of photographs, most of them specially taken for the book by the famous architectural photographer, Edwin Smith. They cover the widest possible range of interiors, both in time - from the Palazzo Colonna, Rome, completed in about 1670, to Frank Lloyd Wright's winter residence, Taliesin West, near Phoenix, Arizona - and in style, from Queen Victoria's personal railway carriage to the new dining hall of Saint Catherine's College, Oxford. All have been selected because they possess individually a strong and unified character in terms either of architecture or of decoration, and together they make a fascinating subject for study.
Binding: ClothCondition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
ISBN: 0600338827
Book Id: 14413
Price: $26.00
