Richard Norman Shaw / Andrew Saint.

Main entry:

Saint, Andrew.

Title & Author:

Richard Norman Shaw / Andrew Saint.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 498 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Apprenticeship -- Dedication and Pupillage -- Travels -- Street's Office -- First Designs -- 2. South and North -- Origins of Old English -- Nesfield and Shaw -- Yorkshire -- Cragside -- 3. The Country House -- Outside -- Inside -- Four Houses -- 4. The Pattern of Practice -- Queen Anne -- The RA Drawaings -- The Customers -- The Painters' Houses -- Builders -- Concrete -- Furniture -- Home and Health -- The Office -- 5. Turning Point -- Illness -- Albert Hall Mansions -- Bedford Park -- Flete -- Crisis -- 6. The Town House and the Path to Classicism -- The London House -- Commerce and Reconstruction in the 1880s -- T̀he Home and its Dwelling Rooms' -- Two Commissions -- 7. The Church -- Framework -- Fittings -- All Saints' Leek -- 8. The 1890s -- Eminence -- RA or RIBA? -- Shaw and the Arts and Crafts Movement -- Home and Habits -- Jobs of the 1890s -- 9. Improving the Cities -- London -- Liverpool -- The Quadrant -- The Quietus -- Catalogue of Executed Work -- 1. Buildings, By Date -- 2. Miscellaneous Jobs -- 3. Gazetteer.

Summary:

"Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British domestic architect of his time. This new edition of Andrew Saint's best-selling book on Shaw and his work--hailed in its original version as "a masterpiece among architectural biographies" by the Evening Standard--features a completely revised text and new introduction and is generously illustrated with new color photographs, many specially commissioned."--Publisher description.

ISBN:

9780300155266 (cl ; alk. paper)
0300155263 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Shaw, Richard Norman, 1831-1912.
Architects Great Britain Biography.
Architectes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Architects.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Biography
Catalogs.
Biographies.

Added entries:

Shaw, Richard Norman, 1831-1912.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 267482
Call No.: BIB 199477
Status: Available

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