Vladimir Antoshchenkov

Kirpichnyi Peterburg (Brick St. Petersburg)

St. Petersburg: Nevskii rakurs, 2010. sewn cl. This album looks at brick not only as a basic construction material, but also as an element of design, which came into its own in Russia in the nineteenth century. Different colors, textures and levels of bricks adorned façades, and in the Art Nouveau style patterns of glazed bricks showed how useful a decorative element brick was. Captions to plates provide addresses of buildings and dates of photos, and the list of illustrations (both translated into English) gives dates of construction, function, and names of architects. 128 pp., 7 ¾ x 7 ¾ ins., 122 b-&-w, , Rus. and ENGLISH. Item #690
ISBN: 9785904675028

Price: $21.00