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Designed in 1908 as a suburban residence for a Chicago businessman, the Robie House embodied the full spirit of Frank Lloyd Wright’s pioneering "prairie school" of design. Today, this masterpiece of modern architecture remains a classic example of the builder’s ideas and ideals. Long, low, streamlined and exemplary of the prairie’s spaciousness, the Robie House profoundly influenced the course of American architecture — so much so that a model of Wright’s innovative structure has long been on display at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Now model builders as well as lovers of fine architecture can construct an accurate three-dimensional model of the Robie House, and thereby di...
Printed in full color on heavy cardboard stock 4 authentic Victorian houses in H-O scale: Italian-style villa, Octagon, Second Empire, Stick Style. Exploded diagrams, numbered and labeled pieces for easy assembly.
Hauntingly beautiful compilation of photographs detailing the Victorian style of grave ornamentation erected to those departed souls.
Discusses the Beaux-Arts style in architecture, and shows and describes examples among the hotels, banks, apartment buildings, museums, offices, and monuments of Manhattan
Edmund Gillon has photographed and Clay Lancaster commented on 116 remarkable but lesser-known Victorian American homes. From Nova Scotia to Geneva, New York to Cape May, these rarely appreciated dwellings offer some of the best 19th-century architecture. Includes row houses, cottages, farms, summer homes.
An ice-cream stand, bandstand, bathhouse and boardwalk, life-saving station, 4 cottages and a tower — all in authentic detail. Introduction. Instructions. Exploded diagrams.
A giant and varied collection of borders and frames for the use of artists and designers. Drawn from numerous first-rate sources, this book covers practically every style, mood, and form as interpreted through the whole range of art movements and historical periods.
Impressive replica of early 19th-century Dice Head Light Station in Maine includes 10"-high octagonal tower, caretaker's cottage, passageway, picket fence and rowboat. Assembly instructions for 12"-long, 5"-wide model.
Recreate a splendid shingle-style house based on an authentic New Jersey suburban home built in 1907. Step-by-step instructions and complete assembly diagrams.