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THE HOUSES AND GARDENS OF M. H. BAILLIE SCOTT

di MACDONALD SMITH I.
Editore: RIZZOLI INTERNATIONAL  (2010)

Descrizione

A romantic vision of the finest Arts and Crafts architect. Practicing from the turn of the twentieth century to the beginning of the Second World War, Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott exerted a profound influence on English Arts and Crafts architecture and design as well as on the nascent modernist movement. As a leader of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain, Baillie Scott adhered to the philosophy that good design should be made available to everyone and should extend from the planning of towns to the creation of dishes and doorknobs. Baillie Scott maintained a characteristically English dedication to the domestic landscape, designing houses and gardens whose exterior forms and interior details were rooted in a romantic vision of vernacular construction and craftsmanship. But his spatial planning signaled a revolution in the organization of interior space, with the development of the open plan-and the introduction of the demotic, modern living room-around the same time that Frank Lloyd W...

Pagg. 239, cm 24x26, rilegato.
Codice ISBN: 9780847831814

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