Dutch Colonial Homes in America

Dutch Colonial Homes in America

Editorial Reviews Book Description This lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists in the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work-- written by eminent experts in the field-- Dutch Colonial Homes in America explores the homes in their broader social context by focusing on the historical and religious forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the home and its aesthetics for the Dutch in America, and also the first to look at these homes as a form of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had on the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago.

Dutch Colonial Homes in America,Roderic H. Blackburn,Geoffrey Gross,Harrison Frederick Meeske,Susan Piatt,Rizzoli,0847824667,Architecture,Design & Drafting,Domestic,History - Specific Styles,Residential Interior Design,U.S. Architecture - General,Vernacular Architecture,Architecture / General,House & Home / General

Nice Books:

1. Dutch Touch
2. Dwelling House Construction, Fifth Edition
3. Dwellings
4. Dynamic Watercolours: Bring Movement and Vitality to Your Paintings
5. Dynamics of Delight: Architecture and Aesthetics
6. Eames: 1907-1978, 1912-1988, Pioneers of Mid-Century Modernism (Basic Architechture)
7. Early American Copper, Tin and Brass: Hand-Crafted Metalware from Colonial Times (Henry Kauffman Collection) (Henry Kauffman Collection)
8. Early Art and Architecture of Africa (Oxford History of Art)
9. Early Childhood Art
10. Early Christianity and Greek Paidea (Belknap Press)

Nice Books

Recommended Books

1. Evolution of Haviland China Design
2. Real Bout High School, Book 3
3. Novels into Film: The Encyclopedia of Movies Adapted from Books
4. Payroll Accounting: A Complete Guide to Payroll
5. Marijuana and the Workplace : Interpreting Research on Complex Social Issues
6. New Light on Dark Stars : Red Dwarfs, Low-Mass Stars, Brown Stars
7. Modern electronic structure theory
8. Physical Acoustics in the Solid State
9. Strangers And Wayfarers
10. The Enneagram : A Christian Perspective
11. Miller's: Wristwatches : How to Compare and Value
12. Kilims: Decorating With Tribal Rugs
13. Richard the Lionheart : The Mighty Crusader
14. Ionizing Radiation Effects in MOS Devices and Circuits
15. Lonely Planet Mongolia