About this title: Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine "Country Life," in 1889. Hudson thereafter did all he could to promote the work of a man he admired without reservation, commissioning Lutyens to design the magazine's offices in Covent Garden in 1904, as well as three country houses. "Country Life" published articles about virtually all his buildings shortly after their completion, recording them as the architect ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Monacelli Press, NY
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781580932370ISBN:1580932371
Description: New in New jacket. Large quarto. 192 pp; fully illustrated with 200 b/w photographs reproduced from the Country Life archive; bibliography & references; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. The author's selection of twenty-two houses, representative of all phases of Lutyens' career, illustrates the architect's dual achievements as a renewer of both vernacular tradition and of the classical language of architecture. read more
Edition: First American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Monacelli Press, NY
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781580930901ISBN:1580930905
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. Folio-over 12"-15" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws-clean, tightly bound, no writing or markings.; 192pp., 200 b/w photographs reproduced from the archives of country life. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Monacelli
Date Published: 2001-06-04
ISBN-13:9781580930901ISBN:1580930905
Description: Like New. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781580930901ISBN:1580930905
Description: Description: 192 p. : ill.; 32 cm. Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944--Criticism and interpretation--Architect-designed houses--England--Manors--England--Histor & 20th century. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. 3. pp. 192. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9781580930901ISBN:1580930905
Description: Description: 192 p. : ill.; 32 cm. Subjects: Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944--Criticism and interpretation--Architect-designed houses--England--Manors--England--Histor & 20th century. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. read more
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