- Series: Classical America Series in Art & Architecture
- Hardcover: 294 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1St Edition edition (March 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393038858
- ISBN-13: 978-0393038859
The original text of The Decoration of Houses continues without revision
as an authentic classic, perhaps the most important book of its kind
ever published. Its carefully reasoned chapters on such aspects of house
interiors as fireplaces, ceilings and floors, halls and stairs, are of
the greatest value to professionals and serious amateurs concerned with
interiors.This expanded edition includes an introduction by Henry
Hope Reed and three critical essays by John Barrington Bayley, William
A. Coles, and Alvin Holm, AIA. Additions to the album of renderings and
photographs of modern and contemporary work in the tradition of Wharton
and Codman include a number of important works done in the last decade
or so. A portfolio of color plates new to the expanded edition offers
the work of such accomplished photographers as Bill Ray and Anne Day.
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