Follow the progression of the American home with this latest creation from the Tad Burness studio. This one-of-a-kind collection features homes from 1880 to 1980. Each yearly section presents various styles of houses, kitchens, baths, floor plans, light fixtures and new developments. Many of the time periods include detailed advertisements with original prices, competing household appliances and new fads. Representative regions and styles include the kit houses of the early 1900s, Victorian-style homes and Mediterranean themes. The wealth of information and detail will excite the curiosity of those interested in home restoration and retro design, as well as architects, real estate agents, interior designers and members of historical societies.
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Tad Burness has been interested in houses since his early teens and this collection represents the vast range of his interests. Tad has written 26 books previous to this one, including Ultimate Auto Album, Classic Railroad Advertising, Ultimate Car Spotter's Guide 1946-1969, and Ultimate Truck and Van Spotter's Guide 1925-1990.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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See inside your neighbor's house.,
This review is from: Vintage House Book (Paperback)
An amazing resource book if you are interested in the American home from 1880. Tad Burness started in the sixties collecting illustrations, photos and ads of anything to do with domestic housing and this book is the result of his endeavours. You need to know though that the book is essentially visual and 2500 images are shown in a scrapbook format, with many of them irregular shapes, where a house, for instance, has been cut out from its background,
Each crammed page has between nine to fourteen pictures (plenty in color) which could include six or seven exterior house photos or illustrations, possibly taken from period ads, three or four interiors (also from period ads) mostly kitchens and bathrooms, maybe a floor plan or some period ads for a heating system, door handles or property. Many of these items have a few handwritten words from the author. I rather liked these very busy, crammed pages but I could see that they might not be to everybody's taste. This large paperback is a fascinating overview of a hundred years of American housing but if you want to see pictorial books with a more formal presentation have a look at these: 'Houses by Mail', by Katherine Stevenson and Ward Jandl, a picture and floor plan of the hundreds of styles sold by Sears Roebuck from 1908 to 1940. For domestic interiors of the fifties and sixties check out two books by Eugene Moore: Inspiring Interiors from Armstrong 1950s and Interior Solutions from Armstrong the 1960s both use several hundred room set photos taken from Armstrong flooring ads. For a really comprehensive study of past decades the Decorative Art series by Charlotte and Peter Fiell published by Taschen can't be beat. ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Lots of stuff, very little information,
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This review is from: The Vintage House Book: Classic American Homes 1880-1980 (Paperback)
I love Tad Burness' Car Spotters Guide book and I highly recommend them to anyone into American automobile company design and history. So when I found this book I thought "great!".
When I received the book, I found it not so great. One of the problems that this book has is that unlike the Car Spotters series, there is a different pool from which to glean examples when you are dealing with architecture, and unfortunatly, this book missed the mark more than hits it. This book struggles with what it is as it is neither a reliable reference book, nor is it a spotters guide. This book is sorta like a visual lexicon or a timeline history, executed at a high level (not much detail). The immediate shortcoming that hit me was the lack of accurate information on architecture - the author seems to coin his own terms instead of using accurate terms to describe many house style examples. I was also bored having discovered that many of the examples in the victorian section of the book - the period with the greatest types of styles - focuses almost completly on western American buildings, and of the examples there is an over reliance with the community where the author lives. Now if you are looking for visual histry on toliets, this book nails that fact and nails it very well. One error that I found was an image of a house allegedly in Carey Ohio - in fact the house was in Bucyrus Ohio (I only know this because a great uncle built it). I also found the image quality a problem because of the DPI issue between today's printing technology and the ads sampled in the book. In some cases the image is obscured by the minimal dots per inch and the clarity of modern printing. My advice is , this is a good book if you don't know very much about historical architecture and you're just curious. This is not an accurate reference book. If you are going to buy this, don't expect much, and buy it used.
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