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Hardcover Arts & Crafts Houses I Book

ISBN: 0714838756

ISBN13: 9780714838755

Arts and Crafts Houses: By Philip Webb, William Lethaby and Edwin Lutyens: Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent, 1859. Melsetter House, Orkney, Scotland, 1898. Goddards, Abinger Common, Surrey, 1900. Volume 1

Part of a series which aims to place noteworthy buildings within theiristorical context, this volume considers Philip Webb's Red House; Williamethaby's Melsetter House; and Edward Lutyen's Goddards. It includespecially produced technical drawings which explain how the buildings wereetailed and put together. The text explains why the three houses are alltudies in Arts and Crafts architecture, with the Red House being a seminaluilding from which the other two take much inspiration. It considers howlthough the three buildings vary in setting, they share obvious commonhemes, and that by studying them together, the larger content of Arts andrafts architecture can be deciphered. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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The origins of the Arts and Crafts movement

These are three of the major works of the Arts and Crafts Movement beginning with the fabulous Red House which brought together many of William Morris' ideas in shaping this movement. Philip Webb worked with Morris to create this resplendent design, inspired by the earlier neo-Gothic movement, but pointing the direction to a new architecture. There are many fine color photos as well as key details of the house that give...

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A Steal at Twice the Price!

This book, like Arts and Crafts Houses II, covers only three houses, in this case William Morris's Red House (designed by Phillip Webb), William Richard Lethaby's Melsetter House, and Sir Edward Luteyns' Goddards, but it covers them beautifully and thoroughly. There are site plans, floor plans, elevations, beautiful black and white photos and stunning color photos, significant introductory essays, and lists of references...

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