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Clouds: The Biography of a Country House

By: Dakers, Caroline

Price: £25.00

Publisher: Newhaven and London, Yale University Press: 1993

Seller ID: 006598

ISBN: 0300057768

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Blue hardcover with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Very good, binding sound, no inscriptons. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and light sunning to spine and immediate surrounding area. 278pp. Many b/w and some colour illustrations. Clouds House, is a Grade II* listed building at East Knoyle in Wiltshire. Designed by Arts and Crafts architect Philip Webb for Percy Wyndham and his wife Madeline, it was first completed in 1886, but an 1889 fire necessitated its rebuilding, finished in 1891. Clouds was Webb's grandest design and it was frequented by artists such as Edward Burne...
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The Genius of the Place - The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820

By: Dixon Hunt, John and Willis, Peter

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Paul Elek: 1975

Seller ID: 006744

ISBN: 023631033X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dark green cloth with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Hint of sunning to very edges of text. Binding sound, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Very good, with light shelfwear. 390pp. 100 b/w illustrations. The history of English landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style. The ideas which inspired the gardening also inspired literature and painting, and all three forms of art were closely involved, as this book illustrates.
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Scandinavian Journal of Design History (Volume Seven)

By: Gelfer-Jorgensen, Mirjam

Price: £33.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, Rhodos International Science and Art publishers: 1997

Seller ID: 006171

ISBN: 8772457082

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover. Condition: Very good, with very light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 163pp. Many b/w and several colour illustrations. This volum of the Scandinavian Journal of Design History includes essays on Arne Jacobsen and his laminated chairs, architects in Danish graphic design and 20th century Danish furniture design and the English vernacular tradition.
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At the Sign of the Fourposter: A History of Heals

By: Goodden, Susanna

Price: £26.00

Publisher: London, Heal & Son Ltd./Lund Humphries: 1984

Seller ID: 006246

ISBN: 0853314888

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

Softcover. Condition: Very good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. 138pp. Many b/w and a few colour illustrations. This book tells the story of Heals, from its establishment in 1810 by two brothers, John Harris and Ambrose Heal, to in 1810 when it sold beds and bedding to a later Ambrose Heal who pioneered innovative furniture design and the purchase of Heals in 1984 by Sir Terence Conran, the founder of Habitat.
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Art for All - London Transport Posters 1908-1949

By: Laver, James (intro.)

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Art and Technics: 1949

Seller ID: 004765

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fair

Softcover with jacket. Condition: Fair, covers are generally lightly shelfworn with some sunning to front cover corner approx. 2 by 4 inches which corresponds to a piece missing from the front cover of the dustjacket. The front cover has separated from the spine but is still holding at the rear joint. No inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Poor, generally shelfworn and soiled with some small chips and tears and a piece missing approx 2 by 4 inches to the corner of front of jacket (as previously mentioned). 39pp. 18 colour and 49 b/w plates. This book sets the history of London transport poster...
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An Enquiry into Industrial Art in England

By: Pevsner, Nikolaus

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Cambridge at the University Press: 1937

Seller ID: 006930

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

NB: No dustjacket. Brown buckram with title in gilt on spine. Condition: Good, with general light shelfwear and light soiling to covers. Some browning to endpapers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 234pp. 24 b/w illustrations. This book, Pevsners second to be published in England, was a study of the role of the designer in the industrial process; the research produced a generally critical account of design standards in Britain. The industries studied included furniture, metalwork, pottery, textiles and wallpapers. Pevsner was subsequently employed as a buyer of modern textiles, glass and cerami...
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The Municipal Parks, Gardens and Open Spaces of London: Their History and Associations

By: Sexby, Lieut-Col.J.J.

Price: £75.00

Publisher: London, Elliot Stock: 1898

Seller ID: 004043

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

Grey-green cloth with title in gilt on spine and front cover. Top edge gilt. Image of park gates on spine and a river running through a park on the front cover. Black endpapers. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn and lightly soiled, with sunning and fading to spine. Rear cover has a rectangular watermark covering most of the cover, not affecting the inside of the cover or the rest of the book in any way. Binding sound. Very light browning to text throughout. 646pp. Many b/w illustrations, some photographic. Good reading or reference copy. This book does not include the most well-k...
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New Mexican Furniture 1600-1940 - The Origins, Survival, and revival of Furniture Making in the Hispanic Southwest

By: Taylor, Lonn and Bokides, Dessa

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Santa Fe, New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press: 1989

Seller ID: 006945

ISBN: 0890131686

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Second printing, 1989 (first published 1987). Softcover. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound, no inscriptions. 311pp. 268 plates, several in colour, the remainder in b/w. This book details the origins, survival and revival of furniture making techniques and designs in the Hispanic Southwest. The authors examined over 1,000 pieces of furniture under the auspices of the Museum of International Folk Art's New Mexico Furniture History Project.
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English Garden Design: History and Styles Since 1650

By: Turner, Tom

Price: £36.00

Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, The Antique Collectors Club: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003550

ISBN: 0907462251

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Olive green cloth with text in gilt on spine and front cover. Condition: Very good, binding sound, text clean, no inscriptions. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear and some sunning to spine and immediate surrounding area. Price-clipped. 238pp. 69 colour illustrations, 240 b/w illustrations. In this book, the author describes and illustrates eleven styles of garden design: Enclosed, French Dutch, Forest, Serpentine, Irregular, Transition, Italian, Mixed, Arts and Crafts, and Abstract, and developed by designers such as Loudon, Kent, Brown, Paxton, Jekyll, Lutyens, Tunnard, Brooks a...
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Analysis of Ornament

By: Wornum, Ralph N.

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Chapman and Hall: 1856

Seller ID: 004854

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fair

The full title reads "Analysis of Ornament - The characteristics of styles: an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art; being an outline of a course of sixteen lectures on that subject, originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849, 1850". Brown cloth with title in gilt on front cover and spine. Condition: Fair, covers are generally shelfworn with heavier wear to head and tail of spine. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. The title page also bears two previous owners names neatly written at the top, and an oval raised paper...
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