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Architecture,
design and decorative art
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Is
Mr Ruskin Living Too Long?
Selected Writings of E. W. Godwin on Victorian
Architecture, Design and Culture
Juliet Kinchin
and Paul Stirton
An anthology of Godwin's prolific
and amusing journalism, giving direct access to key debates around
Victorian architecture and culture.
1 873487 12 6 pb £25 p&p free
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Charles
Rennie Mackintosh: The Architectural Papers
edited by Pamela Robertson
Mackintosh's only known architectural
writings, reproduced in full with valuable introductory essays.
0 9513124 1 3 hb £19.95 p&p
free
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George Walton:
Designer and Architect
Karen Moon
Important study of this sophisticated
and innovative designer, pioneer of the 'Glasgow Style'.
1 873487 01 0 hb £30
1 873487 02 9 pb £19.95 p&p
free
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Built for
a Better Future: The Brynmawr Rubber Factory
Victoria Perry
Story of a spectacular Modernist
icon, now condemned to demolition.
1 873487 04 5 pb £12.99
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Winchcombe
Pottery: The Cardew-Finch Tradition
Ron Wheeler
Authoritative study of Britain's
longest surviving studio pottery, including a colour catalogue.
1 873487 08 8 pb £15.99 p&p free
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IN PAPERBACK
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Edward Barnsley
and his Workshop: Arts and Crafts in the Twentieth Century
Annette Carruthers
Acclaimed study of this important
craftsman designer and his furniture workshop.
1 873487 03 7 pb £19.99 p&p free
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Patrick Geddes:
The French Connection
edited by Frances Fowle and Belinda
Thomson
Exploring the networks of
artists and intellectuals, both French and Scottish, formed by
this key figure in Scotland's cultural history.
1 873487 11 8 pb £9.99 p&p free
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Journal
of the Scottish Society for Art History
Produced by White Cockade. Volumes
1-11, 1996-2006 currently available. For contents and to order
back copies please go to the Society's
website
ISSN 1362-248X
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For
books with an architectural and design relevance see also some
Glasgow books below.
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Social
history, oral history and Glasgow
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Seven Roads
in Summertown:
Voices from an Oxford Suburb
Perilla Kinchin
A portrait through oral history
of houses, people, and social change in a small middle-class
neighbourhood, both typical and unusual.
9781873487136 pb £12.99 p&p free
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Glasgow in
1901
'James Hamilton Muir'
Reprint of this highly regarded
and idiosyncratic account of Glasgow, written 100 years ago.
Illustrated by Muirhead Bone.
1 873487 09 6 pb £20 inc p&p
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Tea and Taste:
The Glasgow Tea Rooms, 1875-1975
Perilla Kinchin
Fascinating exploration of
a social phenomenon, including Mackintosh's famous tea rooms.
0 9513124 3 X pb £17.99 inc
p&p
Limited availablity
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AND THE TEA ROOMS click
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Glasgow's
Great Exhibitions: 1888, 1901, 1911, 1938, 1988
Perilla Kinchin & Juliet Kinchin, with Neil Baxter
Instructive and entertaining,
reflecting a century of profound social and economic change.
0 9513124 0 5 pb £19.95 inc p&p
Limited availablity
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Up Oor Close:
Memories of Domestic Life in Glasgow Tenements, 19101945
Jean Faley
Best-selling exploration
of working-class home life through vivid recollections.
0 9513124 5 6 pb £9.99 p&p
free
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She Was Aye
Workin': Memories of Tenement Women in Edinburgh and Glasgow
Helen Clark & Elizabeth Carnegie
The resilience, self-sacrifice
and management skills of women who held families together in
conditions unimaginable today.
0 1873487 05 3 pb £9.99 p&p free
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Thirty-Three
Years in the Trenches:
Memoirs of a Sussex Working Man
Peter Richards
an oral autobiography compiled by Nick Osmond
Encounter an articulate,
challenging individual and an unfamiliar area of life through
this arresting new form. A riveting read.
187348710X pb £8.99 p&p free
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Other books
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Taking Tea
with Mackintosh:
The Story of Miss Cranston'sTea Rooms
Perilla Kinchin
The remarkable collaboration
between Mackintosh and Miss Cranston. Beautifully produced, including
tea-room recipes. Good gift.
Published by Pomegranate hb £11.70 inc
p&p
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Taking Tea with Mackintosh Notecards
2 each of 5 designs from
gesso panels by Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. With tea-room
recipes on the reverse.
Published by Pomegranate £6.55 inc p&p
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Miss Cranston:
Patron of Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Perilla Kinchin
Biography of an outstanding
business woman, Mackintosh's most loyal patron.
Published by NMS Publishing pb £7.99 inc p&p
Limited availability
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