HOUSE & GARDEN BOOK OF MODERN HOUSES
AND CONVERSIONS
Robert Harling [Editor], Alex Kroll [Art Editor]
London: Condé Nast Publications Ltd., 1966. First edition. Quarto. Tan fabricoid decorated in black. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Khaki endpapers. 256 pp. Over 100 residential case studies fully illustrated with color and black and white photography, diagrams, floorplans, etc. Out-of-print. Interior unmarked and very clean. Jacket with large chip to rear panel wrapped around the spine heel and a couple of short closed tears to top edge. A nearly fine copy in a very good or better dust jacket.
9 x 12 hardcover book with 256 pages copiously illustrated in black-and-white and color. A British perspective on Modern House Solutions with many examples in the United Kingdom—and some examples in the United States, Denmark, Sweden, and Italy. Half of the homes profiled are newly constructed, with the remainder being conversions and/or reimagining of existing structures and spaces.
Architects and designers include Sir Basil Spence, Bonnington & Collins, George Fejer, Ronald Cudden, Timothy Rendle, John Winter, Leonard Manasseh, Ernö Goldfinger, Oliver Hill, Anthony Bernard Levy, Paul Boissevain and Barbara Osmond, Morris & Steedman, James Jacobs, Erik Sørensen, Colin St. John Wilson, Chapman, Taylor & Partners, Philip Johnson, Steen Rasmussen, Børge Mogensen, Bengt Warne, Elizabeth and Kjeld Ussing, Brian Frost, Bryan Thomas, Robert Mortimer Partners, Derek Walker, Peter Womersley, Norman Starrett, Birkin Haward, George Buzuk, Donald Belsom, Geoffrey Thomas, Ian Campbell, Jospeh Esherick and Associates, Ted Cullinan, Edward Larrabee Barnes, Paul Rudolph, Robert Marquis and Claude Stoller, Buckminster Fuller, Guglielmo Mozzoni, John Volk, Roberto Menghi, Bruno Morassuti, John Ware, John Carden Campbell, Bruce Graham, Bruno Morassutti and Angelo Mangiarotti, Frederick Gibberd, Kit Evans, Peter Milne, Robert Howard, David Dry, Alison and Peter Smithson, David Bristow, Kieth Scott of Building Design Partnership, David Brook, Max Lock, John Smith, John Winter, Peter Collymore, Ward Bennett, Kenneth Wood, Malcolm Andrews, Campbell and Arnott, and Johan Gøtzsch among others.