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Arts & crafts houses II / [introduction by Beth Dunlop].
Series: Architecture 3sPublication details: London : Phaidon, <1999- >Description: v. 2 : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cmISBN:- 0714838748 :
- Arts and crafts houses
- NA3485 .A77 1999
Contents:
Summary: These houses are masterpieces of domestic Arts and Crafts architecture and among the best preserved examples. Macaulay presents Hill House as a unified aesthetic conception -- combining Arts and Crafts honesty with Art Nouveau decoration and distinctly Scottish elements. The Homestead is described by Hitchmough as one of Voysey's finest achievements: a private house but also one built for entertaining. Bosley shows the Gamble House to be the enoblement of the California bungalow image, yet a building of striking intimacy. These commissions share similarities -- they were each undertaken for powerful local figures -- but also possess unique characteristics, particularly linked with setting; by looking at them together, one can decipher common Arts and Crafts predilections and examine the different responses of the architects to individual circumstances.
2. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hill House / James Macaulay -- C.F.A. Voysey, the Homestead / Wendy Hitchmough -- Greene and Greene, Gamble House / Edward R. Bosley.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | NA 3485 .A77 1999 v.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 631028 |
Originally published <1992-1994> in series: Architecture in detail.
Includes bibliographical references.
2. Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hill House / James Macaulay -- C.F.A. Voysey, the Homestead / Wendy Hitchmough -- Greene and Greene, Gamble House / Edward R. Bosley.
These houses are masterpieces of domestic Arts and Crafts architecture and among the best preserved examples. Macaulay presents Hill House as a unified aesthetic conception -- combining Arts and Crafts honesty with Art Nouveau decoration and distinctly Scottish elements. The Homestead is described by Hitchmough as one of Voysey's finest achievements: a private house but also one built for entertaining. Bosley shows the Gamble House to be the enoblement of the California bungalow image, yet a building of striking intimacy. These commissions share similarities -- they were each undertaken for powerful local figures -- but also possess unique characteristics, particularly linked with setting; by looking at them together, one can decipher common Arts and Crafts predilections and examine the different responses of the architects to individual circumstances.
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