Author: David Gebhard
Title: Charles F.A. Voysey Architect
Description: Los Angeles , Hennessey & Ingalls, Inc, 1975. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of this critical biographical study of the life and work of CFA Voysey. The first edition of this work, an uncommon volume. A comprehensive and critical evaluation of Charles FA Voysey's life and work with a representative selection of his own writings. Written by David Gebhard. With one-hundred and thirty-two plates illustrative of his architectural drawings as well as photos of the house showing interiors, exteriors, decorative details and furnishings. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. CFA Voysey was an English architect and furniture and textile designer, known for his valuable contributions to the Modern Style (British Art Nouveau) and his designs of country houses.  From the library of Doctor Malcolm Higgs, an important architectural historian who worked as an assistant architect to Stirling & Gowan, working on their particularly renowned Leicester University Engineering Laboratory. During his long career he taught at the University of Edinburgh School of Architecture, Canterbury School of Architecture, and University of Nottingham. Later in his life he was the Vice-President and Honorary Librarian of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and contributed and edited the "Journal of Architecture". In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely. Dust wrapper unclipped and excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Fine.

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