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Motel America: A State-By-State Tour Guide to Nostalgic Stopovers
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Andrew F. Wood (Author)
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Jenny L. Wood (Author)
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Collectors Press (Editor)
Andrew Wood is back from his ROAD TRIP AMERICA with his latest cross-country, road-tripping adventure: MOTEL AMERICA. Seeking out the charming, funky, and out-of-the-way mom-and-pop motels, MOTEL AMERICA is your off-the-beaten-path inspiration for vacations and weekend getaways with a retro flair. Wood offers up history, highlights, and loads of fun facts about his favorite sleepovers in all 50 states. From charming owners to offbeat locations, each of these motels is sure to make memories. So pack your bags, bring your sense of adventure, and check in to MOTEL AMERICA.
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San Francisco Houses (Designpocket)
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Ana Cristina Canizares (Author)
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Te Neues Publishing Company (Editor)
San Francisco has long been one of America?s landmark cities, a gleaming jewel of the West Coast surrounded on three sides by water, well known for its hilly streets, Victorian residences, and a free spiritness that made it the home of the Beat Generation, flower power, and gay pride. But over time, this "storybook city of spires and minarets" has also made a name for itself in the world of architecture and design. Victorian architecture gradually gave way to Art Deco and was followed by a modern movement that today favors a mixture of both minimalist and more decorative styles. This elegant, lavishly illustrated book takes the reader on an exciting tour through the latest in San Francisco?s residential design and uncovers yet another dynamic facit of this unique North American city.
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Palm Springs Weekend: The Architecture and Design of a Midcentury Oasis
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Andrew Danish (Author)
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Alan Hess (Author)
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Chronicle Books (Editor)
This is the first book to reveal the eccentric treasure trove of commercial, civic, and domestic architecture that makes Palm Springs a true oasis of progressive design. Not merely regarded as a Hollywood playground, golf enclave, or retirement mecca, Palm Springs is also a bastion of idiosyncratic modernism that is unparalleled in the world. Creating stunning homes and an impressive array of other buildings in the middle of the desert, such masters as Albert Frey, Richard Neutra, John Lautner, R. M. Schindler, Donald Wexler, and Lloyd Wright exercised their creative potential there. Palm Springs Weekend explores everything from the grandiose, such as Neutra's Kaufmann house, to the more humble features of the city--motels, trailer homes, and the ubiquitous metal and concrete sunscreens that shade them. Filled with hundreds of archival and contemporary photographs, elevations, and vintage ephemera, Palm Springs Weekend reveals an inimitable city where modern design, Hollywood glamour, and the desolate drama of the desert coalesce.
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NorCalMod: Icons of Northern California Modernism
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Pierluigi Serraino (Author)
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Chronicle Books (Editor)
Many people think modernist architecture never flowered in California north of the San Fernando Valley. NorCalMod dispels that notion in a copiously illustrated history showcasing extraordinary examples of its proud contribution to the Bay Area and environs. As a style, modernist architecture was hotly debated in its day (why create modern structures where such distinctive Victorian and Arts and Crafts buildings already existed?) pulling heavyweights such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Lewis Mumford, and Walter Gropius into the fray. Ultimately, that existing "Bay Region Style" would remain the area's architectural hallmark, but not before hundreds of important modernist projects, many still standing yet unjustly neglected today, had been established. The remarkable photos in this book open our eyes to a long-lost chapter in the history of California architecture and make NorCalMod a volume to be enjoyed by those interested in California history and style as well as by architecture students and professionals.
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Modern American Houses: 50 Years of Design in Architectural Record
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Thomas Hine (Contributor)
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Robert Campbell (Contributor)
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Suzanne Stephens (Contributor)
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Charlesa Gandee (Contributor)
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Clifford A. Pearson (Editor)
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"Harry N. Abrams, Inc." (Editor)
With essays by Thomas Hine, Robert Campbell, Suzanne Stephens, Charles Gandee, and Raul A. Barreneche
Architectural Record is the premier architectural magazine in America, with a devoted following among architects, designers, and the increasingly design-minded public. Drawing from the roster of award-winning residences featured since 1956 in Record Houses, the magazine's prestigious "best of" annual issue, this revised and expanded edition of the popular 1996 Abrams book showcases more than 75 of the most innovative and influential houses built in the last 50 years.
Designed by such luminaries as Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, Frank Gehry, and this year's Pritzker Prize-winner, Thom Mayne of Morphosis, these houses have helped shape the direction of residential architecture. Texts by six noted architectural writers provide illuminating commentary on the key trends and developments of residential architecture in the last half century, and each decade is represented by a stunning portfolio of photographs, along with numerous plans and drawings. Both inspiring and informative, this book chronicles a fascinating period in modern American architecture.
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Subway Style: 100 Years of Architecture & Design in the New York City Subway
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New York Transit Museum (Author)
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Anthony Robins (Author)
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Andrew Garn (Author)
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Stewart, Tabori and Chang (Editor)
October 2004 marks the 100th anniversary of the largest underground transit network in the world. Love it or hate it, if you're a New Yorker, you can't live without it: 3.5 million people ride the rails every day. The subway is as much a symbol of New York City as Central Park and the Statue of Liberty. Commemorating its centennial, this official publication presents an illustrated history of the architecture and design of the entire complex, from the interiors of the trains and the mosaic signage at the stations to the evolution of the token and the intricacy of the intertwined, rainbow-colored lines on the free, foldout map.
Produced with the New York City Transit Museum, Subway Style documents the aesthetic experience of the system through more than 250 exclusive pictures. The book includes newly commissioned color photographs of historic and contemporary station ornamentation as well as imagery from the Museum's archives. The images span the full century, from the system's inception in the early 1900s up to and including architectural renderings for the still-to-be-built Second Avenue line. AUTHOR BIO: The NEW YORK TRANSIT MUSEUM is one of only a handful of museums in the world dedicated to urban public transportation. The Museum's collections of objects, documents, photographs, films, and historic rolling stock illustrate the story of mass transit's critical role in the region's economic and residential development since the beginning of the 20th century. The Transit Museum's main facility is located in a decommissioned 1936 subway station in Brooklyn Heights, an ideal setting for the Museum's 20 vintage subway and elevated cars, and wide-ranging educational programs for children and adults. A gallery annex in Grand Central Terminal presents changing exhibits relevant to the millions of commuters who use mass transit every day.
Photographer Andrew Garn has exhibited his work in galleries around New York City and across the country. His photographs are also held in numerous museum and private collections.
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