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African Kings: Portraits of a Disappearing Era Hardcover - 2001

by Daniel Laine


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Apartment architecture has come a long way since the days when functionality took precedence over aesthetic conditions. Today, the two concepts go hand in hand. Each project selected for this volume has gone that extra step beyond successfully meeting basic requirements, to providing qualities, which add texture and beauty to daily life. Not only do these buildings enjoy more light and colour, better spatial distribution and improved community spaces, but they also have distinctive characteristics which set them apart from the rest: from the massive superimposed boxes jutting out in gravity-defying profusion to a building with entire facades of double layers of glass encasing living plants within. Photos, texts, ground plans and construction details all help provide thorough understanding of each project.

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  • Title African Kings: Portraits of a Disappearing Era
  • Author Daniel Laine
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, California, U.S.A.
  • Date January 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781580082242 / 1580082246
  • Weight 3.04 lbs (1.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.49 x 11.44 x 0.75 in (29.18 x 29.06 x 1.91 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Africa, Sub-Saharan - Kings and rulers
  • Dewey Decimal Code 960.099

Media reviews

...remarkable glimpse of a vanishing world. --Pittsburgh Tribune-Review "riveting images...the richness and elegance of native dress"
--Los Angeles Times "Powerful." --news.nationalgeographic.com"colorful...dramatic portraits." —Dallas Morning News

About the author

DANIEL LAINE is a former storekeeper, professor, and hotel concierge turned photographer. Between 1988 and 1991 he made twelve trips to Africa to create the collection of photographs in this book. He lives in France.
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