A magnificent and inspiring book about the only Art Deco District in America by the woman who made it come alive again. The triumphs and despairs described in Capitman's text are the result of the struggle between the pressure for development and the necessity for preservation. 135 color plates.
The treasures of American heritage showcased in this volume include such masterpieces as Colonial Williamsburg's Governor's Palace, George Washington's Mt. Vernon, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Robert E. Lee's Arlington House, and Stratford Hall Plantation--all presented in new photography commissioned for this book. (Architecture)
A collection of black-and white-photographs of modern Jerusalem, Israel, and the surrounding region, based on popular 19th-century engravings of the Holy Land, many of which appear side by side. The images present famous views and sites, as well as significant Christian, Jewish, and Muslim holy sites. The 190 photographs are preceded by ...
With nearly two hundred lush, color photographs, writer and photographer Steven Brooke takes the reader from the earliest pioneer stages of the town of Seaside to its development as an emerging cultural and intellectual center. Steven Brooke's Seaside is the guide to the town of Seaside, complete with maps, walking tours, aerial views, and a look ...
Contemporary photographs of monuments juxtaposed with corresponding earlier views by Piranesi and other artists in a volume for scholars, travelers, and those with an interest in Italian architecture. Includes essays by noted art historians, as well as maps of the city.
Cajun and Creole cooking are both featured in 40 New Orleans recipes in this book. Beginning with French techniques, southern Louisiana cooking has blended Spanish, African, Chocataw Indian and other influences to create a culinary gumbo filled with spices, local produce, seafood and fish.
Beautiful exterior shots and rare interior photos perfectly complement the stories behind some of the most famous homes in Natchez, one of the best-preserved bastions of the Old South. Steven Brooke is an internationally acclaimed architectural photographer who has received a National Honor Award for Photography from the American Institute of ...
Philip Johnson's Glass House (1949) in New Canaan, Connecticut, is one of the icons of modern architecture. Ironically, its fame has obscured Johnson's many other notable residential projects, which are here studied in depth for the first time. Drawing on exhaustive research and extensive interviews with Johnson, his colleagues, and his clients, ...
The revitalization of Miami's South Beach Art Deco district is one of architecture and urban design's great success stories. A Modernist building boom now complements the existing Art Deco gems, and the Aqua development is the culmination of this transformation. The brainchild of developer Craig Robins, Aqua is the first New Urbanist community ...
No other city in the United States has as much style and energy as Miami, and this survey of its diverse designs for homes and gardens shows the rest of America how to take the heat with an up-to-the-minute, sizzling lifestyle indoors and out. 400 full-color photographs.
With a Foreword by the author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", this lavishly illustrated volume intimately explores the architecture and design of 20 of Savannah's most unique homes. 130 color photos.
Seaside, Florida is a town designed as an "ideal" community in the Southern vernacular style, where houses have front porches and verandahs, picket fences and sleeping porches, and pitched tin roofs with ample overhangs. Seaside, along with other new planned towns and communities, sets an important precedent for all new small towns and will long ...
Sonoma Valley: the name alone evokes a wonderful sense of warmth, beauty, and magic. On hearing it, one envisions landscapes of sparkling rivers, verdant, vineyard-banked hillsides, and sunshine―in short, paradise. Having had this dream, those lured by the spell of Sonoma arrive to discover a place far more spectacular than imagined. In ...
This volume documents the best examples of Florida's residential architecture era, which took place between 1941 and 1966. Many homes incorporate verandas, porches, and raised floors to open out to tropical vegetation, and more importantly, cooling breezes.
Beautiful, vivid photographs combine with equally vibrant text to present twenty-nine of the Pelican State's most famous gardens. Louisiana's traditional gardens, plantation gardens, arboretums, parks, commemorative areas, and nature preserves will awe and inspire gardeners everywhere. Among those featured are the Louisiana State Arboretum, the ...
Miami is a world-renowned, cosmopolitan city with an architectural history to match. Its many treasures include not only Miami Beach's Art Deco buildings and Coral Gables, but also the houses and commercial buildings of the immediate postwar era, tropical vernacular architecture, mid-century modernism, and avant-garde high-rise buildings on the ...
In the manner of Rizzoli's acclaimed Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley, Great Houses of Florida presents the greatest and most intriguing houses of the state. Including John and Mabel Ringling's fabulous Venetian Palazzo Ca d'Zan, James Deering's spectacular Italianate Villa Vizcaya in Miami, and the Audubon and Hemingway houses in Key West. ...
Gardens flourish in the sultry heat and humidity in Florida -- especially the sub-tropical southern half of the state. The climate fosters 'riotous growth', which makes for beautifully lush landscapes. Nineteen Florida oases are featured here in all their brilliant, colourful glory. Almost two hundred gorgeous photographs are accompanied by ...
This handbook allows rapid reference to conditions commonly encountered in school-aged children, and to rare diseases as well. It focuses particularly on the impact of the condition on the child's ability to access the curriculum, and suggests educational approaches that should help. In this way it is hoped that education and medicine can work ...
California's Napa Valley is as renowned for its extraordinary beauty as it is for being the preeminent region in America for growing and producing world-renowned wines. Although there are many guidebooks, cookbooks, and wine books available on this immensely popular region, there is no book that shows the Napa way of life. "Napa Valley Style" ...
Seaside, the most successfully planned city of recent years, requires picket fences for both aesthetic appeal and as a means to define communal space. Each must be of a different design. This picture book depicts that variety.
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