Vizcaya - An American Villa and Its Makers

Informationen zum Autor Witold Rybczynski and Laurie Olin. Photographs by Steven Brooke Klappentext Like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, Vizcaya represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power. In "Vizcaya," the authors use illustrations, historic photographs, and narrative to document this extraordinary house and landscape. Zusammenfassung Like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon! Vizcaya represents an achievement of the Gilded Age! when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power. In Vizcaya! the authors use illustrations! historic photographs! and narrative to document this extraordinary house and landscape.

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• Authors: Laurie Olin, Witold Rybczynski, Witold Olin Rybczynski, Witold/ Olin Rybczynski
• Assisted by: Steven Brooke (Photographs)
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.01.2007
• EAN: 9780812239515
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-3951-5
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 267 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture; Penn Studies in Landscape Arch; Penn Studies in Landscape Arch; Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture