Hardcover | 19.63 x 2.01 x 25.15 cm | 208 pp
Batsford | 2017 | 9781849944373
A fascinating insight into Britain’s built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth and twenty-first century. This book showcases 100 houses – one from each year from 1914 – that represent the range of architectural styles throughout the years and show how housing has adapted to suit urban life. Each house is accompanied by stunning photography and texts written by leading architectural critics and design historians, including Gavin Stamp, Elain Harwood, Barnabas Calder, Ellis Woodman and Gillian Darley.
From specially commissioned architect-designed houses for individuals and for families to housing built for increased workforces, each of the 100 houses brings a different design style or historical story. There are houses built as part of garden cities, semi-detached suburban houses, housing estates, eco-houses, almshouses, converted factories and affordable post-war homes. The architectural styles encompass mock Tudor, modernist, Arts & Crafts and brutalist and the featured architects include Giles Gilbert Scott, Walter Gropius, Edwin Lutyens, Powell and Moya and David Chipperfield.
The book also contains essays that explore the social and political aspects of housing design in Britain across 100 years, looking at the impact the World Wars had on housing, exploring domestic technology and building materials and asking how the modern house came about.
Whether exploring Grayson Perry’s folly-like House for Essex, Patrick Gwynne’s modernist glass villa in Surrey, Sarah Wigglesworth’s Straw Bale House or Simon Conder’s black rubber-clad fisherman’s hut in Dungeness, this book gives a glimpse into the wonderful housing in Britain and is a must-have for all fans of design history and architecture.
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I read this compressed book with absorption, content. Cutts's method: inclusions from a batch of previous books, mixing in extraction from other writers. Compressed bulk. Sifting through, the rationale for inclusion or placement in the sequence's development is sometimes clear, sometimes oblique. Their brevity has a shortening effect, and the consequent generous white space acts as a leaven. There are garnishes, small colour photographs of pyclets at the foot of each page (seen larger under the laminating of the cover).
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Simon Cutts, pyclets (Coracle, 2026)
I read this compressed book with absorption, content. Cutts's method: inclusions from a batch of previous books, mixing in extraction from other writers. Compressed bulk. Sifting through, the rationale for inclusion or placement in the sequence's development is sometimes clear, sometimes oblique. Their brevity has a shortening effect, and the consequent generous white space acts as a leaven. There are garnishes, small colour photographs of pyclets at the foot of each page (seen larger under the laminating of the cover).
If you're looking for an active starter in Cutts's work, pyclets should do you fine. There's nothing lame, it's all vital, all enriching, blooming wonderful: filled with enriching ingredients, cold proof of Cutts's excellence. Here's your heritage; here's an heirloom. Eat it all up, crust and crumb.
Harry Gilonis
with the active assistance of
https://challengerbreadware.com/bread-bakers-glossary
Beautiful qualities and excellent photography and writing.
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Excellent delivery and immaculate condition.
Arrived quite quickly and in immaculate condition. Not opened yet as it’s a gift but I’m certain it will be loved.
Arrived well ahead of time. Excellent book. Stan Lee was a god when I was growing up in the late fifties/ early sixties; his heroes were more relatable to than the likes of DC comics, like Superman, and the artwork by Marvel comics was far superior.
Love this book. As a lifelong fan of Stan the Man, I thank you.
10:10
Ein Glück, das Buch hier gefunden zu haben – hilfreiche und freundliche Kommunikation und schnellste Lieferung auch über die Grenzen hinweg - vielen Dank!
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Really lovely books and great customer service. I'll be keeping an eye out on what other gems come into stock.
First class selection of books all delivered in secure packaging and as described(or much better in one instance). Great value for money.
Taps right into what it means to be British and be in a band.
Beautifully wrapped, they really care about books.
Great selection of books and the always arrive well packaged and in great condition. Couldn't be happier ☺️