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Delorme, Jean-Claude.

Architects' dream houses / Jean-Claude Delorme ; photography by Thibaut Cuisset ; [translated from the French by Willard Wood].

1st ed.

New York : Abbeville Press, ©1996.

120 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

In this sumptuously illustrated volume, architect Jean-Claude Delorme explores ten exceptional houses constructed by the precursors and pioneers of twentieth-century architecture. Each of these extraordinary residences is utterly unique and affirms the strong individual vision of its creator. Ranging from the iconoclastic house Sir John Soane built for himself in London in the 1790s to the austere yet dramatic villa Adalberto Libera constructed for writer Curzio.

Malaparte atop a rocky spur on Capri in the 1930s, Architects' Dream Houses tells the compelling stories of these dwellings, of the visionaries who conceived them, and of the shifting aesthetic environment in which they were built.

Architects -- Homes and haunts.

Architect-designed houses.

Maisons d'exception. English

Includes index.

Also issued online.

Translation of: Maisons d'exception.

The House of Sir John Soane, London: Architect John Soane -- Red House, Bexley Heath, Kent: William Morris -- The Hill House, Glasgow: Architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- Mallet House, Varengeville-Sur-Mer: Architect Edwin Lutyens -- The House of Victor Horta, Brussels: Architect Victor Horta -- The Guell Palace, Barcelona: Architect Antonio Gaudi -- The House of Pierre Loti, Rochefort: Pierre Loti -- Villa Kerylos, Beaulieu-Sur-Mer: Theodore Reinach -- Villa Karma, Montreux: Architect Adolf Loos -- Villa Malaparte, Capri: Curzio Malaparte.

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