Michael c kathrens (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 400 pages. 12.25x9.25x1.30 inches. In Stock.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorMichael C. Kathrens is an independent scholar specializing in American residential architecture and interior decoration of the mid-19th through the early 20th centuries. His previous publications include Amer.

Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Acanthus Press, New York. 2002. 334 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938) was one of the most influential residential architects in the country house era that lasted from the late 19th century to 1930. His restrained limestone palaces and townhouses for the super rich defined a new elegance in American cities and seaside resorts. A publicity-shy Philadelphian without social connections and only 10th grade education, Trumbauer opened his own practice, at the age of 21. Within just a few years he was on his way to becoming a leading practitioner of residential design on the grandest scale. No American builder in the first three decades of the 20th century could equal Trumbauer s output in the sheer number and splendor of his commissions. His large mansions were typically designed in English or French taste, and whether they were in the Whitemarsh Valley outside Philadelphia or new the ocean in Newport, Rhode Island, Trumbauer s houses had the imposing aristocratic demeanor his clients sought. ; 9.25 X 1.25 X 12 inches; 334 pages.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 400 pages. 12.50x9.25x1.35 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st ed. 383pp. VG/VG copy, small closed nick to jacket rear bottom edge, now preserved in mylar jacket protector.