ebooks Tudor Costume and Fashion (Dover Fashion and Costumes) by Herbert Norris in Arts-Photography

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Spurred by a rapidly expanding economy and abundant resources of land; building materials and skilled labor; the dream of building and owning ones own home became a reality in America in the 1920s. With the beginning market for small- to medium-sized one-family dwellings came a succession of innovative home designs that transformed American domestic architecture.This outstanding book presents 500 small-home designs of the 1920s as they appeared in a major architectural publication of 1923. Many are by leading domestic architects of the period. Each design is presented in a handsome perspective drawing or photograph; along with floor plans and a description of its principal features.The designs reflect many variations on the basic themes of American colonial architecture; updated by new construction technology and the design aesthetics of the post‒World War I era. The Bungalow and semi-bungalow were perhaps the biggest design news of the times; and they are generously represented in this huge collection. Because of the practicality and good looks of the best of these designs; and perhaps for the nostalgia they evoke; many are being revived today by builders and buyers in communities across America.Architects; architectural; and social historians; students and enthusiasts of architecture and design will find in these pages a rich selection of small-home concepts that once set the standard for a new era in American home design; and that still form an integral part of our landscape many decades after their first inspiration.