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Title: Stone Houses: Colonial to Contemporary by Lee Goff ISBN: 0-8109-3287-3 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Magic Of Stone
Comment: Stone Houses is a splendid survey which focuses exclusively on residential architecture in the USA. The book begins with several breathtaking photographs of historical sites in the Southwest where the Anasazi built beguiling settlements out of local stone over one thousand years ago. It then proceeds to document numerous stone structures of interest from colonial times right through to the present. Moreover, in addition to his commentary on the buildings presented within the pages of this beautifully realized volume, Lee Goff provides a thoughtful discussion of the qualities of stone itself which makes for such a superb, durable building material in the first instance as well as an inspirational source for imaginative residential design. To quote briefly from the introduction: "Stone has different moods. It can be warm or cold, protective or inhospitable. Before all else, however, stone evokes an image of power, strength, impregnability and endurance. Even more subliminally it conveys a sense of the primordial...Instinctively, we feel the millions of years ago the stones were formed. Thus, the materials of nature become the material of shelter, and the form the shelter takes in turn reflects the origin of the stone and the house's setting, connecting the dwelling and its inhabitants to the most permanent world of all-the natural world."
Stone was the first material used for shelter. It can be (and has been) assembled in any number of creative, aesthetically pleasing ways. Stone Houses takes us on a wondrous tour of many of the possibilities inherent to this medium of construction. "Whether cottage or château, cabin or castle, stone houses embody feelings of romance and the picturesque. Their walls speak of permanence and history; their stones give whispered accounts of their prehistoric creation. They are an ongoing part of what Tennyson referred to as 'the eternal landscape of the past.' "
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Title: Building With Stone by Charles McRaven, Chandis Ingenthron ISBN: 0882665502 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Tudor Style : Tudor Revival Houses in America from 1890 to the Present by Lee Goff, Paul Rocheleau ISBN: 0789307936 Publisher: Universe Books Pub. Date: 23 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Stonebuilder's Primer: A Step-By-Step Guide for Owner-Builders by Charles K. Long ISBN: 1552092984 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Creating a New Old House: Yesterday's Character for Today's Home by Russell Versaci, Erik Kvalsvik ISBN: 1561586153 Publisher: Taunton Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Stone Built: Contemporary American Houses by Lee Goff, Charles Gwathmey ISBN: 1885254695 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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