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Structure of Light Richard Kelly and the Illumination of Modern Architecture

Neumann Dietrich

ISBN: HB: 9780300163704, Yale University Press, November 2010
256 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 131 black&white illus., 114 colour illus.

The potential of electric light as a new building "material" was recognized in the 1920s and became a useful design tool by the mid-century. Skilful lighting allowed for theatricality, narrative, and a new emphasis on structure and space. "The Struct...

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Architecture

Interior Design

Stone Hill Center Tadao Ando at the Clark

Pare Richard, Webb Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300149173, Yale University Press, January 2009
64 pp., 20.3x20.3 cm, 47 colour images, 2 black&white illus.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando is a master of minimalism, known for his use of simple materials, his light-filled interiors, and his respect for the natural environment in which he works. This handsome book celebrates Ando's Stone Hill C...

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Interior Design

Miniature Rooms The Thorne Rooms at the Art Institute of Chicago

Hatton Boyer Bruce, Weingartner Fannia

ISBN: HB: 9780300141597, Yale University Press, A+D Series, January 2009
184 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 124 colour illus.

The Thorne Rooms, sixty-eight miniature models of European interiors from the sixteenth century on and American furnishings from the seventeenth century on, have entranced generations of visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago. This charming book sh...

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Cosmopolitan Interior Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914

Neiswander Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780300124903, Yale University Press, October 2008
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 70 black&white illus.

Literature on domestic interior decoration first emerged as a popular genre in Britain during the 1870s and 1880s, as middle-class readers sought decorating advice from books, household manuals, women's magazines, and professional journals. This intr...

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Decorative Arts

European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago

Brosens Koenraad, Bertrand Pascal-Francois, Bremer-David Charissa, Cleland Elizabeth, Delmarcel Guy, Forti Grazzini Nello, Mayer Thurman Christa C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300119602, Yale University Press, A+D Series, September 2008
450 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 200 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book presents a rich variety of European tapestries from the Art Institute of Chicago. These exquisite tapestries include medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque examples, manufactured at almost all the major centres of productio...

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