Swedish architecture (3 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. Ex University of California, Berkeley library book with usual library markings. Binding is tight, text clean. Library rebound the book between stiff covers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Oversized hardcover, 212 pages, copiously illustrated with colour and b&w photos, drawings and plans, NOT ex-library. Translated from the Swedish. Shipping weight over 1kg. Book is clean and bright throughout, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor handling wear only. Gently shelfworn, untorn dust jacket. -- "The book offers an informed survey of the history of the art of building in wood in Sweden. Drawn from vernacular traditions that have accumulated during more than 6000 years, these buildings, which reveal a continuous change in traditions, are prime examples of the art. In its three parts, the book allows rhythms, tonnes and expressions to vary on a common theme that will stimulate and inform all who are interested in architecture in general and the architecture of wood in particular." -- 270 illustrations, of which about 100 are in colour. …

0. Amsterdam, De Hooge Brug ( editor ), Arch. H.TH. Wijdeveld ( typography ), 1927, original issue 5. Format square 32,5 x 32,5 cm, 26 pp. Printed as a japanese book bloc, stitched together with raffia. Original issue, as published. Covers dustsoiled, first two leaves with some foxing spots, further a good copy. Dutch edition. Cover is a lithograph after a drawing by Jesseroun de Mesquita. (Bibliography: M.F. Le Coultre ; Wendingen, a journal for the arts, Princeton 2001, pp. 179 ).…