Wooden Houses by Makoto Suzuki - 1979

NY:: Abrams,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0810917629 . Drawings by the author. Introduction by Christian Norberg-Schulz. Color and black and white photographs by Yukio Futagawa throughout. Translated from the Japanese by Terutoyo Taneda. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine (fading along the spine) dust jacket. .

New York: Abrams, 1978. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Futagawa, Yukio (photographs). 288 pages. Introduction by Christian Norberg-Schultz. The role of wood in folk architecture - in the Swiss Alps, Tirol and Related Regions, Central Europe, Scandinavia. Locations of wooden houses, description of photogrqphs, notes and acknowledgments, afterword. Color and b/w full-page photos throughout. Spine and the 2 1/2" onto front cover are sun-bleached to beige. Shipping will be extra for this very heavy book; please inquire.; 12 1/4 x 12 1/4

New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc., 1979. Book. Illus. by Futagawa, Yukio. Good. Hardcover. First Engish Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 288 pages. Profusely illustrated with diagrams and color and black and white photos. First printed in Japanese in 1978. "Author spent years roaming through Europe to capture on film these jewels of houses and the precious and fast-disappearing examples of handcrafted wooden trimmings, balconies, window treatments, eaves, gables, and delicately carved walls that adorn them. A tribute to the expressive qualities of wood and to the timbered towns and the folk cultures that created them." - dust jacket. Yukio Futagawa [1932-2013] was one of Japan's foremost architects, an acclaimed architectural photographer, and founder of Global Architecture (GA) Magazine. Book clean and unmarked. Very light wear to publisher's handsome coarse brown cloth. Hinges just starting. Moderate wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart.… Read More