Design of Cities: Revised Edition (Penguin Books) - Edmund N. Bacon
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Residential Lighting: A Practical Guide to Beautiful and Sustainable Design -
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Living Artfully: At Home with Marjorie Merriweather Post - Estella M. Chung
>> Friday, January 24, 2014
This is a beautifully illustrated account of the three main homes of Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887–1973), through the 1950s to 1970s. From 1957 onwards Post lived in stately Hillwood in Washington, DC, for spring and autumn, retreated to Camp Topridge in the Adirondacks for the summer, and enjoyed the winter season at her glamorous villa Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida. Post was one of America’s most stylish and powerful women and this book, strongly evocative of the lifestyle magazines of the period, offers a vibrant and intimate picture of life in each residence—for Marjorie Post, her guests, and her staff.
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Estella M. Chung is head of oral history and curator of American material culture and historian at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, in Washington, D.C. As a curator and cultural historian she combs photographic archives, documents, and the not-so-ordinary artifacts that tell life stories of remarkable people who may, or may not, have been yet recognized for their contributions in history. As head of Hillwood's oral history program she conducts interviews with those who worked for and were entertained by philanthropist and art collector Marjorie Post, which she weaved into the publication Living Artfully: At Home With Marjorie Merriweather Post - a book about Post's private homes complete with butlers, personal maids, and footmen - a Downton Abbey story set in the Mad Men era. The book has an accompanying museum exhibition at Hillwood to January 12, 2014. In 2013 and 2014, Chung has Living Artfully book events scheduled in Washington, D.C. and Palm Beach.
Previously, Chung co-curated the landmark museum exhibition Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone (2005) at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, the largest artifact based exhibit ever devoted to a director of cinema. Chung contributed the introduction "Leone's West: Finding the Fairy Tale" detailing the hunt for film set artifacts to the catalogue authored by preeminent Leone scholar, and the exhibit co-curator Sir Christopher Frayling. In addition to Clint Eastwood's iconic poncho, and Marjorie Post's glimmering mansions, Chung explored stories connected to Chinese American immigration, bridges in rural Texas, gallant churros, and the many delicious uses of Jell-O.
Previously, Chung co-curated the landmark museum exhibition Once Upon a Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone (2005) at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, the largest artifact based exhibit ever devoted to a director of cinema. Chung contributed the introduction "Leone's West: Finding the Fairy Tale" detailing the hunt for film set artifacts to the catalogue authored by preeminent Leone scholar, and the exhibit co-curator Sir Christopher Frayling. In addition to Clint Eastwood's iconic poncho, and Marjorie Post's glimmering mansions, Chung explored stories connected to Chinese American immigration, bridges in rural Texas, gallant churros, and the many delicious uses of Jell-O.
Stone Houses: Traditional Homes of R. Brognard Okie - James B. Garrison
Essential Colonial Revival-style stone houses in bucolic settings--on hillsides, beside streams--and their inviting interiors, by the architect who popularized the beloved form. Stone Houses showcases a beloved kind of home that many of us aspire to own and live in--a place of warmth and security, of charm and romance. The stone house speaks to a very basic dream of stability and comfort, and the houses featured here represent the epitome of this dream. Built in traditional styles with artful construction and considered design between 1899 and 1945, these gems display the hallmarks we associate with the stone house, here polished and beautifully presented: deep fireplaces, thick beamed ceilings, wide plank floors, and country kitchens. Focusing on the work of the eminent architect R. Brognard Okie, who is credited with having greatly contributed to a popular appreciation and understanding of early American domestic architecture and who has had a lasting impact on American residential design, this book will both enchant the reader and serve as an unprecedented resource.
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Shelter -
Shelter is many things - a visually dynamic, oversized compendium of organic architecture past and present; a how-to book that includes over 1,250 illustrations; and a Whole Earth Catalog-type sourcebook for living in harmony with the earth by using every conceivable material. First published in 1973, Shelter remains a source of inspiration and invention. Including the nuts-and-bolts aspects of building, the book covers such topics as dwellings from Iron Age huts to Bedouin tents to Togo's tin-and-thatch houses; nomadic shelters from tipis to "housecars"; and domes, dome cities, sod iglus, and even treehouses.
The authors recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment - with fascinating, often surprising results.
The authors recount personal stories about alternative dwellings that illustrate sensible solutions to problems associated with using materials found in the environment - with fascinating, often surprising results.
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