by photography by N. Jane Iseley (1987)
Architecture has been defined as "the gift of one generation to the next." In the South Carolina Low Country the gift is a particularly precious one-a rich treasure of buildings that not only charm us with their graceful beauty, but offer us a glimpse into a vanished world of prosperous plantations and provincial aristocracy.
Jack Larkin
A social history of early America combines with more than four hundred photographs and drawings to look at everyday life, and the many different kinds of dwellings, at the dawn of the new republic, from the American Revolution to the Industrial Revolution.
Susan M. Stabile
"A renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia - Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright - wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality, they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley. In this original and heavily illustrated book, Susan M. Stabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience - a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era." "Drawing equally on material culture and literary history, Stabile discusses how the group used their writings to explore and at times replicate the arrangement of their material possessions, including desks, writing paraphernalia, mirrors, miniatures, beds, and coffins. As she reconstructs the poetics of memory that informed the women's lives and structured their manuscripts, Stabile focuses on vernacular architecture, penmanship, souvenir collecting, and mourning." "Empirically rich and nuanced in its readings of different kinds of artifacts, this work tells of the erasure of the women's lives from the national memory as the feminine aesthetic of scribal publication was overshadowed by the proliferating print culture of late eighteenth-century America."--Jacket.
Mette Moltensen & Birte Poulsen
E. Bach: Preface/ M. Moltesen, B. Poulsen: Preface / P. Guldager Bilde: Nordic excavations of a roman villa by Lake Nemi, loc. S. Maria: an introduction / M. Moltesen, B. Poulsen: An introduction to the finds. Pottery and glass / N. Bruni, Ceramica d'impasto protostorica. / R. Berg: Black Gloss / L. Mejer: Cooking Ware / B. Poulsen, Pompeian Red Ware / L. Mejer, Thin-Walled Ware / R. Berg: Terra Sigillata / B. Poulsen: Lead-Glazed Ware / K. Bg̜gild Johannsen: Plain Ware / K. Bülow Clausen: Transport Amphorae / C.C. Wenn: Dolia and other large vessels / B. Poulsen: African Red Slip Ware / M. Prusac: Lamps / B. Poulsen: Glass / B. Poulsen: Late-Antique Kitchen Ware / L.E. Vaag: Post-antique pottery; Metal and coins / M. Prusac: Metal objects / B. Poulsen: Coins, a Bronze Tessera and Medallions. Sculpture / M. Moltesen: Sculpture in marble and other stone. Finds related to the architecture / R. Berg: Brick stamps / K. Bg̜gild Johannsen: Architectural terracottas./ M. Moltesen: Miscellanea.
text by Elizabeth McMillian
This book showcases Southern California's most historically significant and beautifully preserved Spanish-revival houses of this century. Twenty-one private homes built between 1922 and 1991 are featured in stunning color photography that captures exterior and interior architectural details, Spanish and Mexican antique furnishings and folk art, and lush landscaping and tiled fountains. Among these are the Adamson House in Malibu, with its extraordinary collection of custom tile from Malibu Potteries; the contemporary Greenberg House in Brentwood, by Ricardo Legorreta; The Andalusia Courtyard Apartments in Hollywood; and Casa Pacifica, the former home of Richard Nixon, overlooking the ocean in San Clemente. Brief narratives highlight the history of each building and its design sources, while the introduction traces historical and cultural influences on the Spanish-revival movement in California.