Living museums / Iain Gale and Richard Bryant.

Main entry:

Gale, Iain, author.

Title & Author:

Living museums / Iain Gale and Richard Bryant.

Edition:

First North American edition.

Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown & Company, [1993]
©1993

Description:

192 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
"A Bulfinch Press book."
Includes index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Luscious photos present the varied and intriguing interiors of 26 houses that are museums because of their architectural or historical significance houses that are "living museums" because they tell us so much about life in that time and place. The text is equally stimulating, telling of each house's design and construction, inhabitants, and history. The featured houses are located in the Americas, Europe, and the Far East and Australasia. A comprehensive gazetteer lists some 950 living museums worldwide."--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0821219634 (hardback)
9780821219638 (hardback)

Subject:

Historic buildings Guidebooks.
Dwellings Guidebooks.
Architecture, Domestic Guidebooks.
Historic buildings.
Historic house museums.
Monuments historiques.
Villas.
Maisons historiques (Musées)
Habitations Guides.
villas.
Architecture, Domestic
Dwellings

Form/genre:

travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Bryant, Richard, 1947- author.
Bryant, Richard, 1947-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110829
Call No.: ID NA7123.G35; ID:94-B625
Status: Available

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