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Decorative Art and Modern Interiors: Volume 69, Environments for People
by Schofield, Maria (Ed.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/good
- ISBN 10
- 0688036759
- ISBN 13
- 9780688036751
- Seller
-
Carrollton, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1980. Hardcover. Good +/good. Hardcover. 11 1/4" X 8 3/4". viii, 188pp. Rubbing, toning, and creasing to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Sunning to spine of jacket. Rubbing and gentle bumps to corners and edges of brown paper over boards. Faint dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
In so far as our environment is considered to be an essential condition for a healthy spiritual balance, the role played by Architecture - and in particular by Interior Architecture - becomes of primary importance to us all. In effect, the brief for the majority of the projects included in this book reveals a need for an environment capable of relieving the pressures of everyday activites in a variety of situations. An informative text complemented by many illustrations and line drawings provides full technical details of construction methods for eighteen interiors. Among these are holiday retreats among the olive groves of Greece or the bare rocks of Colorado, a Centre for Visual Arts in the University of East Anglia, UK, the Citicorp Centre in New York, a Correctional Institute for cirminal offenders in Alaska, the National Ethnological Museum in Osaka and the Archaeological Museum in Lyon-Fourviere, France; while the inclusion of the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Cananda, the Sports Complex in Nantes, France, and the passenger-ferry Finnjet from Helsinki refelcts a new, wider scope for research in the tradition of this annual. Another subject in Decorative Art is Elements of Architecture: Light, by Professor Pieter de Bruyne, of Brussels and Antwerp Universities. In his work, the Author examines the role of light other than that of pure function and advocates a use of light in architecture which emphasizes the poetic quality of this element. The book concludes with a review of industrial and craft objects produced recently in the manufactories and workshops of many countries.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
In so far as our environment is considered to be an essential condition for a healthy spiritual balance, the role played by Architecture - and in particular by Interior Architecture - becomes of primary importance to us all. In effect, the brief for the majority of the projects included in this book reveals a need for an environment capable of relieving the pressures of everyday activites in a variety of situations. An informative text complemented by many illustrations and line drawings provides full technical details of construction methods for eighteen interiors. Among these are holiday retreats among the olive groves of Greece or the bare rocks of Colorado, a Centre for Visual Arts in the University of East Anglia, UK, the Citicorp Centre in New York, a Correctional Institute for cirminal offenders in Alaska, the National Ethnological Museum in Osaka and the Archaeological Museum in Lyon-Fourviere, France; while the inclusion of the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Cananda, the Sports Complex in Nantes, France, and the passenger-ferry Finnjet from Helsinki refelcts a new, wider scope for research in the tradition of this annual. Another subject in Decorative Art is Elements of Architecture: Light, by Professor Pieter de Bruyne, of Brussels and Antwerp Universities. In his work, the Author examines the role of light other than that of pure function and advocates a use of light in architecture which emphasizes the poetic quality of this element. The book concludes with a review of industrial and craft objects produced recently in the manufactories and workshops of many countries.(Publisher).
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14418
- Title
- Decorative Art and Modern Interiors: Volume 69, Environments for People
- Author
- Schofield, Maria (Ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0688036759
- ISBN 13
- 9780688036751
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
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