Wednesday, August 18, 2010

New painting acquired - a few snippets

We love hunting for treasures and just want to give you a peek at a new painting we just acquired.  It could easily be the view from above St John's College in Santa Fe looking west towards the Sangre de Christos. We'll let you know more as we continue our research.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Architecture and Design books on Songofsnow

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Mario Praz An Illustrated History of Interior Decoration from Pompeii to Art Nouveau
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MARG Magazine of Architecture & Art 1948 Vol. 3 No. 1 Bengal Textile Ceylon Univ Miniature Paintings
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Architecture and Art of Berlin and New York 1870 to Present Collected Essays Kleihues editor
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The appeal of this extraordinary book, a prized rarity now back in print after ten years, lies in its rapt obsession with the details of the domestic interior, borne out in wonderfully rich collection of pictures of a type seldom reproduced anywhere. 1948 issue of MARG within this issue Indian miniature paintings at the Berlin museum with tipped in plates, a look at the architecture of Ceylon's First University, photographs of India and the Far East, and Medieval Sinhala Wrestling as seen in sculpture Collection of Essays comparing and contrasting the Art and Architecture of New York and Berlin, from 1870 to present
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The Isles of Greece Robert Payne First Edition First Printing HC 1965
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A Paradise of Origamic Architecture by Masahiro Chatani and Keiko Nakazawa
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Facing Southwest The Life and Houses of John Gaw Meem Architecture
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Stated FIRST EDITION/ FIRST PRINTING of this book, 1965. This is a beautifully written book, exquisitely illustrated with 4 sections of photos, a look at the beauty of Greece in the 1960s, just begging to be brought along on a present day journey. This books contains 16 card size pattern sheets for 90 degree opened type works and 17 drawings for 180 degree opened type works.

Step by Step instructions. A beautiful gem of a book!
As an architect, Meem bought the Spanish-Pueblo style to maturity, created his own brand of regional classicism - the Territorial Revival - and worked to reconcile Modernism with southwestern traditions, notably in his innovative solar adobe houses.
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American Adobes Rural Houses of Northern New Mexico by Beverly Spears
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Minnesota's Historic Lake Homes A Place at the Lake - Larson
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Historic Churches of Barbados by Barbara Hill
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American Adobes Rural Houses of Northern New Mexico by Beverly Spears pictorial account of the summer homes, Lake Minnetonka, Arrowhead, Minnesota, Twin Lakes Barbara Hill, long time resident of Barbados, compiled an extraordinary collection of images and history about the architecture and people who founded the churches of Barbados