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Architecture/Building
Book Details:
Price:
€19.99
Binding: hb
Pages: 160
Size: 280x210mm
ISBN-10 0-86278-784-X
ISBN-13 978-0-86278-784-4
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Rights held:
World, all languages.
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Peter Pearson's Decorative Dublin is a feast for the eye, celebrating the city's decorative surfaces in ironwork, brickwork, stone, glass, plaster, its fanlights, doors and windows.
The city is full of decorative things whose main function is to delight. Ancient, Georgian, Victorian and modern features are all here. At certain periods everything, even the most practical and mundane coal-hole cover or boot scraper, was decorated, leaving a rich heritage on buildings, pavements, walls, roofs, in gardens and interiors.
The book also includes the fascinating stories of crafts and craftworkers.
Extract available: read some of this book now ...
Dublin's Fanlights
Praise for Peter Pearson's Decorative Dublin
'This book is an attempt to preserve not only the beautiful minutiae but also the larger decoartive detail of Dublin's unique cityscape' Construct Ireland
'A stunning and fascinating journey through the streets and history of the capital city' Read Ireland
'Rich and colourful photographs ... the text is informative and equally rich ... Pearson's is an infectious passion, and the book itself, lovingly laid out, is something of an object of vertu.' Books Ireland
'This beautifully illustrated volume contains endless riches.' The Sunday Tribune
'Decorative Dublin offers a lavishly illustrated celebration of the city's "rich legacy of beautiful minutiae" ... (Pearson) writes with enthusiasm and knowledge about his subject.' Frank McDonald, The Irish Times
'For anyone unaware of the variety contained within the architecture of Dublin, this book will be an eye-opener.' Full review www.archiseek.com
'Sumptuously produced and meticulously researched.' The Sunday Independent
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