Title & Author:

The elements of style : an encyclopedia of domestic architectural detail / general editor, Stephen Calloway ; consultant editor, Elizabeth Cromley.

Edition:

New ed. / rev. and updated by Alan Powers.

Publication:

Buffalo, N.Y. : Firefly Books, ©2005.

Description:

592 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
"First published in Great Britain by Mitchell Beazley"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-583) and index.
Tudor and Jacobean (1485-1625) / Simon Thurley -- Baroque (1625-1714) / Richard Hewlings -- Early Georgian (1714-1765) / Stephen Calloway -- Colonial (1607-1780) / Milliam Macintire / Late Georgian (1765-1811) / Stephen Jones -- Regency and early 19th century (1811-1837) / Stephen Calloway -- Federal and empire (1780-1850) / Jonathan Poston -- British Victorian (1837-1901) / Robin Wyatt -- American Victorian (1840-1910) / Thomas Jayne -- Arts and Crafts (1860-1925) / Stephen Jones -- Art Nouveau (1888-1905) / Margaret Knight -- Edwardian (1901-1914) / Robin Wyatt -- American Beaux Arts (1870-1920) / David Reese -- Twenties and thirties / Margaret Knight -- The modern movement (1920-1950) / Alan Powers -- Beyond modern (1950-1975) / Alan Powers -- Contemporary era (1975-present day) / Alan Powers -- British vernacular / Anthony Quiney -- American vernacular / Elizabeth Cromley -- Restoration and maintenance / Peter Sutton -- Biographies / Valerie Clack.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

A new edition of the in-depth chronological survey of the key styles of architectural design in the United Kingdom and United States over the past five hundred years offers a fully revised chapter on the postwar to the Post-Modernist period (1950-75) and a new chapter on contemporary style.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1554070791
9781554070794

Subject:

Interior architecture.
Architecture Details.
Architecture, Domestic Great Britain.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture intérieure.
Architecture Détails.
Architecture domestique Grande-Bretagne.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture, Domestic.
Interior architecture United States.
Great Britain.
United States.

Form/genre:

Reference works.
Ouvrages de référence.

Added entries:

Calloway, Stephen.
Cromley, Elizabeth C.
Powers, Alan, 1955-

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 240625
Call No.: NA2850.E44 2005
Status: Available