Classic Homes of Los Angeles

Author: Douglas Woods
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN: 0847833844
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
"This deluxe volume offers an exclusive look into the classic homes and gardens in the legendary neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles, such as Hancock Park, Windsor Square, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, and Malibu. In a region famed for its lavish homes and celebrity residents, one finds here a panorama of richly detailed architectural styles, from Craftsman, Tudor, and Georgian, to Spanish Colonial and Tuscan Revival examples." "Shown here in rich detail are the estate of the great Hollywood producer and director Cecil B. DeMille in Laughlin Park, the former Danny Kay House in Beverly Hills, the revered Millard House by Frank Lloyd Wright in Pasadena, and wonderful Arts & Crafts masterwork by Green and Green---the Gamble House---also in Pasadena. The works of those and other renowned architects, such as Wallace Neff, Paul Williams, George Washington Smith, and Roland Coate, illustrate the wide range of period-revival styles popular in Southern California during its "Golden Age of Expansion" from 1899 to 1938. Lush, all-new color photographs capture the grandeur of these homes and their exquisite gardens in the present day."--BOOK JACKET.

101 Classic Homes of the Twenties

Author: Harris, McHenry & Baker Co.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486137171
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 113

Book Description
Authentic plan book advertises homes chosen for aesthetic appeal, convenience, and economy of construction. Ranging in scale from lavish to modest, each model appears with detailed floor plans, measurements, and a photograph of completed dwelling.

Classic Houses of Portland, Oregon

Author: William John Hawkins
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
ISBN: 9780881927498
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Portland's great residential architecture is presented in the context of the history and growth of the city as well as the broader, international architectural trends.

Building Beautiful

Author: Clive Aslet
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 0847870634
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
New homes, featuring interiors, gardens, and furniture from London-based architect John Simpson, famed designer of the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace and one of the world’s leading practitioners of New Classicism. Inviting, perfect in proportion, exquisite in detail—such are a few of the ways to describe homes designed by John Simpson. Well known for his work with the British royal family at Buckingham and Kensington palaces and for his buildings at Eton College in the U.K. and at the University of Notre Dame in the U.S., he is perhaps most brilliant at the level of the house and home. Building Beautiful is an invitation to enter the work of this master designer, as one might visit with a treasured friend. From a dream made real within a Venetian palazzo—a former seventeenth-century near-ruin, brought back to glorious, fancifully detailed life—to an English countryside cottage with a thatched roof, the featured homes are expressions of Simpson’s unerring eye and extraordinary sense of beauty. Here we find drama in contrasts of scale and the seductive effects of light, where a cozy reading nook opens to an expansive living room with a double-height ceiling that nevertheless feels not overly large but rather just right. This is Simpson’s subtle art—a mastery of scale, balance, and a pervading sense of elegance.

Classic Home Desserts

Author: Richard Sax
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618003914
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 696

Book Description
A collection of old-fashioned desserts, updated for today's tastes, includes profiles of various chefs, their recollections of favorite desserts, and excerpts from related literature.

Colonial Homes Classic American Decorating

Author: Rosemary G. Rennicke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
A guide to classic colonial style for the modern home covers fabric, furniture, and finishing touches and features photographs of examples of colonial decorating.

TV Sets

Author: Mark Bennett
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Author and artist Mark Bennett compiles his entertaining collection of blueprints extrapolated from the storylines and sets of the 1950s to 1980s television sitcom homes millions of Americans grew up with. An extraordinary work of imagination, these blueprints of TV homes that are as familiar to us as our neighbor's den and backyard give us a fascinating "real life" view that the camera angles never offered. From Ward and June Cleaver's house to Rob and Laura Petrie's apartment to Mary Richards's Minneapolis bachelorette apartment to the Jetson's "house" in the clouds, each home is lovingly recreated with painstaking precision in the fine blue lines of architectural blueprints.

Classic Cottages

Author: Brian Coleman
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
ISBN: 1586853325
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Takes a close-up look at the design, architectural details, decorating possiblities, furnishings, and accessories of a wide array of cottages throughout North America, along with 170 full-color photographs and a host of historical and cultural trivia about the cottage home.

Classic Savannah

Author: William R. Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Captures the rich texture and color of Savannah as presented in history and photographs-the colonial capital, a deep-South antebellum town, a cotton port, a survivor of wars, and, perhaps most notably, a modern preservation success story. Includes one hundred fifty photographs, maps, and images.

Classic Natchez

Author: Randolph Delehanty
Publisher: Golden Coast Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780820318066
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Classic Natchez is the fourth in a series of books about significant Southern cities. By bringing together thought-provoking essays, beautiful contemporary color photographs, and informative maps and illustrations, the editors reveal the essence of each city through its architecture. In this volume, Randolph Delehanty presents the captivating and ironic history of Natchez, identifying the architectural evidence of each era and relating it to the social and economic pulses that created it. An entertaining time line illustrated with archival photographs, maps, panoramas, and floor plans takes the reader from the earliest native habitations, through the construction boom of the cotton era, to the modern-day efforts to preserve this precious legacy. As the introduction and time line give the architecture historical perspective, a portfolio of forty-three landmark Natchez homes gives it life, with stories of Natchez's celebrated nineteenth-century society woven into the lives and lifestyles of modern Natchezians. The portfolio offers a colorful journey through time - the sweet serenity of Spanish-era Hope Farm, to the nearly unbelievable fantasy of Haller Nutt's suburban Longwood, and ending with a bluff-top modern homage to a Mississippi planter's cottage.