Lockwood Charles

BRICKS and BROWNSTONE The NewYork Rowhouse 1783-1929

Codice: 36556

A Guide to Architectural Styles and Interior decoration for Period Restoration.
Introduction by James Biddle, Former President National Trust for Historic Preservation - To Allison Lockwood - Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-9000 - Editor: Walton Rawls - Designer: Martin Stephen Moskof - Introduction - Acknowledgments - Preface - List of illustrations - Federal Style - Greek Revival Style - Gothic Revival Style - The italianate, Anglo-Italianate, and Second Empire Styles - The New York Row House, 1875-1929 - Bibliography -

  • Casa editrice: Abbeville press
  • Luogo Edizione: New York
  • Anno: 1972
€ 120,00

28x21 cm., legatura in piena tela, titoli in oro sul dorso, sopraccoperta illustrata con immagine di un edificio, pp. XXV, 262, prima edizione, in lingua inglese, leggeri strappi margini sopraccoperta, buone condizioni. Allegata cedola editoriale

''Bricks and Brownstone'' is the first book to examine the architectural styles of the venerable New York row house, the way of life of the families who lived in these unique houses, and the outstanding neighborhoods of a rapidly growing and changing city. The result is a charming and nostalgic evocation of bygone days in a town house or ''brownstone'' in nineteenth-century America's richest, most powerful, and most cosmopolitan city....200 photographs and engravings (100 in color)...over half of them 100 years old ...