Architecture
Historic architecture from the ancient world to Neoclassical elegance and the Gothic revival, as well as some contemporary gems.
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Masters of their Craft [Paperback]
Shirley Rose Evans (Author)
$60.00ISBN: 9780718893231
Published by : Lutterworth Press
The Victorian era was a long one and involved many diverse changed both social, economic and cultural. By examining the effect of these changes through the eyes of two members of one family, an understanding of how a certain secti... .... Learn More -
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Architecture, Travellers and Writers: Constructing Histories of Perception 1640-1950 [Hardback]
Anne Hultzsch (Author)
$89.50ISBN: 9781907975639
Published by : Legenda
Series: Studies in Comparative Literature
Volume: 26
Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it... .... Learn More -
London's West End Cinemas [Paperback]
Allen Eyles (Author); Keith Skone (Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781848022577
Published by : English Heritage
The history of London’s West End cinemas dates back more than one hundred years. This book details all of them, in chronological order, totalling well over one hundred. The best of the West End’s cinemas were outfitted... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Islamic Decorative Arts [Hardback]
Robert Hillenbrand (Author)
$300.00ISBN: 9781904597506
Published by : Pindar Press
Islamic artists channeled their energies not into easel painting and large-scale sculpture, but rather into what Western scholars, obeying a very different hierarchy of art forms, rather disparagingly termed the "decorative arts" or even "the m... .... Learn More -
Studies in the Decorative Arts of the Muslim World [Hardback]
Ernst Grube (Author)
$500.00ISBN: 9780907132790
Published by : Pindar Press
Although Ernst Grube has made the study of painting in the Muslim world a principal concern, he has also dealt with other aspects of Islamic art in some depth. Over the last three decades he has published a large number of studies dealing with spe... .... Learn More -
Early Structural Steel in London Buildings: A discreet revolution [Hardback]
Jonathan Clarke (Author)
$130.00ISBN: 9781848021037
Published by : English Heritage
In 1909, one of the world's great cities, London, finally sanctioned steel-frame architecture. For the previous quarter century, a new structural material - steel - had been discreetly changing the anatomy and physiology of the ca... .... Learn More -
The British Museum Citole: New Perspectives [Paperback]
James M. Robinson (Editor); Naomi Speakman (Editor); Kate Buehler-McWilliams (Editor)
$70.00ISBN: 9780861591862
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd.
Series: British Museum Research Publication
Volume: 186
The British Museum citole is a unique example of medieval craftsmanship and is one of very few surviving instruments from the Middle Ages. This new publication includes selected papers from the first international symposium on the... .... Learn More -
The Hat Industry of Luton [Paperback]
Katie Carmichael (Author); David McOmish (Author); David Grech (Author)
$20.00ISBN: 9781848021198
Published by : English Heritage
Series: Informed Conservation
Although perhaps best known today as the home of Vauxhall Motors, Luton's industrial roots run much deeper. Long before it became associated with motor cars Luton was the centre of ladies' hat production in this country - a succes... .... Learn More -
Edwardian House: Original Features and Fittings [Paperback]
Trevor Yorke (Author)
$12.00ISBN: 9781846743122
Published by : Countryside Books
Edwardian houses, built between 1880 and 1914, remain some of our best constructed, elegant, and durable housing stock. Many were influenced by the romantic styles of Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Movement.
It was an ... .... Learn More