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by Walter Cummins (Author), Arthur T. Vanderbilt II (Author)As significant as the mansion of a great Gilded Age estate like Florham, the New Jersey country home of Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, was its landscape. This book explores how that greatest of all landscape architects, Frederick Law Olmsted, visualized 1,200 acres of woodlands and scrub growth and swamps and transformed them into a magical country retreat for a family which could afford, and demanded, "the best of the best." The book...
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by Robert Pigott (Author)This volume is a joy for anyone even the least bit interested in New York's legal culture and landmarks. . . . The book belongs on your shelf and in your lap. -Albert M. Rosenblatt, former Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals and President of The Historical Society of the New York Courts New York's Legal Landmarks Second Edition takes you on a tour of Gotham through the eyes of a history-loving New York City lawyer. You'll visit courthouses past and presen...
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by Al Arnold (Author), Meredith James (Foreword by)New Chapters: History Lessons In Black & WhiteThe Mystical Black Confederates Meaningful ContactA Black & White Letter to the Church Al Arnold is a descendent of a slave, Turner Hall, Jr. "Uncle Turner," as he was known in his later years, served in the Confederate army as a body servant for two Confederate soldiers and an orderly for RobertE. Lee. As a slave, Turner Hall, Jr. was owned by another prominent Civil War general, Nathan B...
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by Caitlin L. Horton (Author), Rebecca L. Phillips (Illustrator)Tourists and Memphians alike whizz by dozens of signs everyday. If they could speak up and tell their story to us, it would open a whole new world of insight into the history and culture of Memphis. In Memphis Type History: Signs and Stories From Just Around the Corner, nineteen of these everyday signs are beautifully captured by painter Rebecca Phillips. Accompanying the artwork and historical photographs is the history behind t...
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by Laurel James (Author)This Introduction book to Interiorology will awaken possibilities, positive aspects, and expressions of the true you in your home. Connect with your living space and your heart to move through life's transitions. Come playfully explore how to consciously thrive in your Home and Life. "Just as a Flower needs the right environment to bloom, we need the right home in which to flourish" -Laurel James
Number of Pages: 108
Dimensions: 0.28 x 8.5 x 8.5 IN
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by William a. Paquette (Author), Julian B. Woelfel (Joint Author), Marcile B. Woelfel (Joint Author)The history of The Pink House is unique because it is one of the few Victorian-era residences to remain in the possession of the same family for four generations. Victorian residences are 19th century fantasies created as monuments to their original owner's financial success and their personal tastes and interests. Each residence is an exuberant expression of achieving the American financial dr...
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by Denise M. Butchko (Author)"This book takes you through the steps and thought processes I go through when designing walk in closet space. While concrete things like measurements and materials are more "science", there's an actual "art" to creating a solution that meets the needs of the clients and the parameters of the space." says Butchko. "This book covers both. It's focus is designing the space, not the installation or the fabrication of the closet. "The book, "How To Design a Walk In Cl...
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by C. B. Johnson (Author)This book touches at hot stuff. Not only have we 'never been modern' (Latour) or postmodern, but even not so contemporary. C.B. Johnson offers a glimpse into what is, at best, a strange and Utopian, millenaristic condition (Agamben), at worst, an arrogant attempt on the part of power to put an end to the flow of time. (Franco La Cecla, author of Against Architecture)Entering the 21st century, the postmodern succession has given way to a doom-laden, apolitical orthodox...
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by Scott Cardinal (Author), The Cardinals (Author)The very first book ever written about this iconic landmark, replete with vintage images and transcribed newspaper articles.THE ANSONIA: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF MANHATTAN'S BEAUX-ARTS MASTERPIECE is the most comprehensive collection of over over 100 full-color, sepia, black and white and colorized photos, paintings, postcards, drawings and vintage images ever gathered to document the colorful history and development of one of Manhattan's most b...
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by Scott Cardinal (Author), The Cardinals (Author)This book is part of the FIRST series of full-length visual histories of this iconic building, replete with vintage images and transcribed newspaper articles.The Dakota apartment building, built between 1880-1884 by the co-owner of the Singer Sewing Machine Company is well-known as the home of John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Lauren Bacall, Roberta Flack, Rex Reed, Rudolf Nureyev, Judy Garland, Judy Holliday, and dozens of other luminaries of stage, scr...
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by Scott Cardinal (Author), The Cardinals (Author)THE ANSONIA: IMAGES & MEMORIES of one of the Largest, Handsomest and Most Complete Apartment Hotels in the World is a collection of over 325 vintage, rare, and original images with accompanying captions and information that tell the story of the history of the Ansonia, from the time William Earle Dodge Stokes began purchasing the land on New York's Upper West Side, through construction, its grand opening in 1904, and the first decade that...
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by Jay Cardinal (Author), Kelly Cardinal (Author)This book is part of the FIRST series of full-length visual histories of this iconic building, replete with vintage images and transcribed newspaper articles. The Dakota Apartments, located at 1 West 72nd Street on New York's Upper West Side is best known as the setting of various popular films and the home of John Lennon. But there is much more to know. Built between 1880-1884, it is one of New York's most beautiful buildings and is of major a...
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by Paul F. Aubin (Author), Stafford Steve (Editor), Lynn Allen (Foreword by)The Aubin Academy Revit Architecture combines a straightforward, reader-friendly style with detailed project-focused exercises that encourage you to learn by doing. Readers will gain practical, firsthand experience with the powerful and popular Autodesk(R) Revit(R) Architecture software; purpose-built for Building Information Modeling (BIM), which industry leading architects and building design professionals are using...
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by Richard Register (Author)Richard Register has been pioneering city design in easily accessible imagery for over forty years and it's all here in his collection of imagery produced over all that time. Ecocities Illustrated represents the very early yet most advanced visual interpretations of "green" or "eco"-cities around. Reader/viewers can see in colorful imagery how cities can be laid out and designed, connected to transport, energy, food and nature here, probably better than anywhere el...
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by Douglas J. Monk (Author)On The Trail Of Lyman Dillon is a combination personal journal and a series of historical sketches of people and life along Old Military Road from 1839 until the early 1900's. The book also contains some original research of Monticello Iowa Native Gus Norlin.
Number of Pages: 102
Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: June 01, 2016
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by James MacLean (Author)Award for Outstanding Michigan History Publication Private Printing by the Michigan Historical Society in 2016. Darius Bartlett Moon was, in the truest sense, an embodiment of a Renaissance man. Born into an agricultural family in 1851, Moon left the farm and apprenticed as a carpenter. Eventually he attended classes at a local business school and began his career as an architect. In 19th century Michigan, an architect was not subject to the same requirements as they ...
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by Anne Brooke Hawkins (Author), Anne Brooke Hawkins (Illustrator)Living in Jacksonville, Oregon for 24 years gives me a special vision of the many facets of this historic community. Driving into town, a traffic sign reduces your speed from 45 mph to 25. You see the town in the distance as you put your foot on the brake and with a sigh you think, God's in his heaven, all's right with the world Coloring books have enjoyed a surge in popularity. It satisfies so many needs in the short term, is ...
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by Dustin Aric Grau (Author)Constructed in 1926, the regional headquarters for the Sears, Roebuck & Company stood along Ponce de Leon Avenue and served the southeast United States for over 50 years. As catalog fulfillment gave way to department stores and Internet commerce, so did this building give way to eventual disuse and near-abandonment. In later decades it became partially owned by the City of Atlanta as City Hall East, housing a 911-dispatch center and police precinct. The buildin...
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by Jacquie Sewell (Author)A plan once thought impossible, men and resources came together to realize the dream of uniting the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan.Explore the creation of Michigan's shining achievement, the construction of the Mackinac Bridge in Mighty Mac: The Bridge That Michigan Built.
Number of Pages: 40
Dimensions: 0.25 x 11 x 8.5 IN
Publication Date: November 22, 2017
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by Donald H. Ruggles (Author)2019 Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) Bronze Medal Award winner 2018 Robert & Judi Newman Award for Literature & Journalism For centuries, men and women have sought to express beauty in architecture and art. But, it is only recently that neuroscience has helped determine how and why beauty plays such an important role in our lives. Founded on a series of lectures architect Donald H. Ruggles has given over the past ten years, Beauty, Neuroscien...
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by Susan S. Fainstein (Author)In the last twenty years, urban centers worldwide have experienced enormous booms and busts as real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials first poured resources into physical redevelopment, then watched as the market collapsed before booming again in the 1990s. In this extensively revised edition of her highly regarded The City Builders, Susan Fainstein examines major redevelopment efforts in New York and London to uncover the forces beh...
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by David L. Finnigan (Author)Named one of the Seven Wonders of Illinois, Robert Allerton Park is visited by nearly 100,000 people annually. Allerton, a wealthy Chicago philanthropist and art collector, donated his palatial country estate to the University of Illinois in 1946 with the intent that it should be maintained as a wildlife preserve and an example of landscape gardening. Today Robert Allerton Park is a National Natural Landmark and on the National Register of Historic Places.Take a t...
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by Ben Alden Watford (Author), Jon Derby (Author), Lisa Bisbee Lentz (Author)"A Brief History of Artists in Eastern North Carolina" is a feast for the eyes. The visual guide includes more than 500 works in full color with a five-page index of creative people and organizations. The main part of the book is a 239-page look at more than 140 contributors which shaped our cultural history in eastern North Carolina, circa 2017.Authors Ben Watford, Jon Derby and Lisa Bisbee Lentz, all artists and ed...
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by David Pye (Author)The Nature and Art of Workmanship is one of the classic books on craftsmanship and design. David Pye explores the meaning of skill and its relationship to design and manufacturing. Cutting through a century of fuzzy thinking, he proposes a new theory of making based on the concept of good workmanship and shows how it imparts all-important diversity to our visual environment.Author BiographyDavid Pye, who died in 1993, was an architect, industrial designer and craftsman. F...
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by Tag Gronberg (Author)Designs on modernity presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in the attempts to update the image of Paris, 'capital of the nineteenth century'. At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoatifs et Industriels Modernes, the city of Paris itself, as much as the commodity, was put on show. No mere backdrop, the French capital was deployed as a framing device for the goods displayed. Tag Gronberg focuses on the Exhibition as a set of contesting representations...
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by Hilary Hockman (Author)This is an invaluable pocket source book bursting with images of original and well restored Edwardian features. This is the ideal handy reference for the home owner, either to take to the architectural salvage yard or DIY store to identify authentic styles and colours, or simply to enjoy the best of Edwardian design. It contains a room-by-room tour of Edwardian homes, covering everything from grand opulence to modest dwellings. It is beautifully illustrated throughou...
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by Simon P. Ellis (Author)Roman Housing describes domestic architecture throughout the Roman empire, from Britain to Egypt, from the origins of empire to the sixth century AD. During this period an empire-wide aristocratic culture was formed, and Simon Ellis marks the stages in Roman expansion and examines the extent of Roman influence on the domestic life of all the citizens of empire, culminating with the decline and disappearance of the Roman house at the end of the period. Illustrated wit...
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by Barry Moreno (Author)The United States is considered the world's foremost refuge for foreigners, and no place in the nation symbolizes this better than Ellis Island.Through Ellis Island's halls and corridors more than twelve million immigrants-of nearly e
Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.36 x 9.18 x 6.48 IN
Publication Date: September 10, 2003
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by Curtis C. Roseman (Author), Ruth Wallach (Author), Dace Taube (Author)In the early 20th century, there was no better example of a classic American downtown than Los Angeles. Since World War II, Los Angeles's Historic Core has been passively preserved, with most of its historic buildings left intact. Recent renovations of the area for residential use and the construction of Disney Hall and the Staples Center are shining a new spotlight on its many pre-1930s Beaux Arts, Art Deco, and Spanish...
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by Suzanne Tarbell Cooper (Author), Amy Ronnebeck Hall (Author), Frank E. Cooper Jr (Author)Art Deco made its formal appearance in Paris at the 1925 L'Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a showcase for art, architecture, and design that promoted progress, modernity, and the present. The greatest export from this exhibition was a style that has since been recognized as one of the great design movements of the 20th century. Art Deco's growing recognition coinc...
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by Bill Cotter (Author), Bill Young (Author)The 1964-1965 New York World's Fair was the largest international exhibition ever built in the United States.More than one hundred fifty pavilions and exhibits spread over six hundred forty-six acres helped the fair live up to its rep
Number of Pages: 128
Dimensions: 0.4 x 9.2 x 6.5 IN
Publication Date: July 27, 2004
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by Hazel Moffat (Editor), Vicky Woollard (Editor)This book addresses the educational role museums play from an international perspective. Ideally suited for all museum staff and students of museum studies.
Number of Pages: 304
Dimensions: 0.46 x 9.75 x 6.06 IN
Publication Date: March 09, 2000
