"Blending fiction with fact, this book takes drawings, models and prints as starting points for stories about the human side of architecture, as told both by its makers and the people it was made for"--
"Blending fiction with fact, this book takes drawings, models and prints as starting points for stories about the human side of architecture, as told both by its makers and the people it was made for"--
Philippa Lewis is a writer, photographer, and picture editor. She is the author of A Dictionary of Ornament (with Gillian Darley); Details: A Guide to House Design in Britain; Everything You Can Do in the Garden without Actually Gardening; Everyman's Castle; and other books.
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Foreword Adrian Forty 9 1 Rex Savidge Entrance to Commercial Building Newcastle upon Tyne 1957 15 2 Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie View of the Piccadilly Entrance to Burlington Arcade London 1827 19 3 George Marshall Perspective View of the Interior of St. Stephen’s Walbrook London Mid-eighteenth Century 25 4 Moos Designs for Graveyard Memorials and Tombstones 1811 29 5 Richard Bentley Gothick Fireplace Possibly for Strawberry Hill Twickenham Surrey 1754 37 6 A. Tod Mr. Tassie’s House Leicester Square London 1806 41 7 Cassius Goldsmith Design for a Gate Lodge ca. 1827 45 8 Unattributed French Artist House in Islamic Style 1870s 51 9 Richard Neutra Residence for Josef von Sternberg 1935 59 10 Peepshow of Marc Brunel’s Thames Tunnel 1830s 63 11 Oliver Messel Model of Bar for the Great Octagon Bath Assembly Rooms 1961 69 12 George Coke Topographical View of the Wall and Trees of London Smallpox Hospital Coldbath Fields Clerkenwell London 1796 79 13 Frederick G. C. Weir Proposed Plan for Artisans’ Dwellings 1875 83 14 PC Harry Woodley Plans of № 131 Cornwall Street St. George’s in the East London 1902 91 15 Samuel Hardy Competition Entry for an All-British £1 000 House 1932 97 16 Robert Bray Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse Featured in Playboy Magazine January 1970 103 17 William Beddoe Rees Selsey-on-Sea Limited Architect’s Suggested Plan for Development 1907 111 18 Three Perspective Drawings for an Estate of Villas Streatham Surrey Inscribed “Angelier ” ca. 1825 119 19 Henri Guerbois Department Store in King Street Kensington for Barker’s 1921 129 20 René-André Coulon Jeux d’eau et de lumière 1937 135 21 P. O’Neil Kitchen Design ca. 1955 141 22 Gordon M. Hills Colgate Chapel Sussex Proposed Enlargement and Design for Ceiling 1871 145 23 John Nash Designs for Langham House Portland Place London ca. 1812–1816 153 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Ground Plan and Street Elevation of “Below Zero” House for Edith Carlson 1939 167 25 Antonio Asprucci Ornamental Detail for the Stanza del Sole Villa Borghese Rome 1775–1780 181 Notes 187 Acknowledgments 213
Foreword Adrian Forty 9 1 Rex Savidge Entrance to Commercial Building Newcastle upon Tyne 1957 15 2 Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie View of the Piccadilly Entrance to Burlington Arcade London 1827 19 3 George Marshall Perspective View of the Interior of St. Stephen’s Walbrook London Mid-eighteenth Century 25 4 Moos Designs for Graveyard Memorials and Tombstones 1811 29 5 Richard Bentley Gothick Fireplace Possibly for Strawberry Hill Twickenham Surrey 1754 37 6 A. Tod Mr. Tassie’s House Leicester Square London 1806 41 7 Cassius Goldsmith Design for a Gate Lodge ca. 1827 45 8 Unattributed French Artist House in Islamic Style 1870s 51 9 Richard Neutra Residence for Josef von Sternberg 1935 59 10 Peepshow of Marc Brunel’s Thames Tunnel 1830s 63 11 Oliver Messel Model of Bar for the Great Octagon Bath Assembly Rooms 1961 69 12 George Coke Topographical View of the Wall and Trees of London Smallpox Hospital Coldbath Fields Clerkenwell London 1796 79 13 Frederick G. C. Weir Proposed Plan for Artisans’ Dwellings 1875 83 14 PC Harry Woodley Plans of № 131 Cornwall Street St. George’s in the East London 1902 91 15 Samuel Hardy Competition Entry for an All-British £1 000 House 1932 97 16 Robert Bray Design for a Playboy Duplex Penthouse Featured in Playboy Magazine January 1970 103 17 William Beddoe Rees Selsey-on-Sea Limited Architect’s Suggested Plan for Development 1907 111 18 Three Perspective Drawings for an Estate of Villas Streatham Surrey Inscribed “Angelier ” ca. 1825 119 19 Henri Guerbois Department Store in King Street Kensington for Barker’s 1921 129 20 René-André Coulon Jeux d’eau et de lumière 1937 135 21 P. O’Neil Kitchen Design ca. 1955 141 22 Gordon M. Hills Colgate Chapel Sussex Proposed Enlargement and Design for Ceiling 1871 145 23 John Nash Designs for Langham House Portland Place London ca. 1812–1816 153 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Ground Plan and Street Elevation of “Below Zero” House for Edith Carlson 1939 167 25 Antonio Asprucci Ornamental Detail for the Stanza del Sole Villa Borghese Rome 1775–1780 181 Notes 187 Acknowledgments 213
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