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Title: Architecture and house design hardcover book lot.
Included volumes: Inside Architecture: Interiors by Architects; Bay Area Houses (New Edition); Creating the Inspired House: Discovering Your Place Called Home; Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Authors and contributors: Susan Zevon; photographs by Judith Watts; edited by Sally Woodbridge with an introduction by David Gebhard; John Connell; Dave Weinstein with photography by Linda Svendsen.
Format: Four large illustrated hardcover books with color pictorial dust jackets focused on residential architecture and interior design.
Genre/Subject: Architecture, interior design, house design, domestic spaces, and San Francisco Bay Area residential architecture.
Narrative type and audience: Nonfiction visual and textual studies written for adult readers, homeowners, design enthusiasts, architects, and students.
Language: English; original language English; published in the United States.
Inside Architecture: Presents interiors created by leading architects, pairing essays with large color photographs of living rooms, dining areas, kitchens, galleries, and work spaces, along with some black-and-white images and captions describing design intent and materials.
Bay Area Houses (New Edition): Survey of notable houses in the San Francisco Bay Area, combining historical context with black-and-white photographs, plans, and descriptions of buildings from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including work in San Francisco, Monterey, Petaluma, Belvedere, and other regional sites.
Creating the Inspired House: Discovering Your Place Called Home: Explores the process of designing and remodeling houses, illustrated with color photography of kitchens, porches, living rooms, libraries, and garden connections, and essays on layout, light, color, and the emotional experience of home.
Signature Architects of the San Francisco Bay Area: Profiles Bay Area architects such as Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom, Leola Hall, Ernest Coxhead, Luther Turton, Albert Farr, John Hudson Thomas, Frank Wolfe, Birge Clark, Roger Lee, Jack Hillmer, Warren Callister, Donald Olsen, and Ace Architects, with photographs by Linda Svendsen documenting exteriors and interiors.
Illustrations and features: Mix of full-page color plates, black-and-white photographs, architectural details, and descriptive captions highlighting materials, craftsmanship, and spatial organization in a variety of modern and traditional houses.
Intended use: Suitable as reference and inspiration for architects, interior designers, students, and homeowners interested in house planning, renovation, and Bay Area architectural history.
Approximate combined weight of the four books: 11.0 lb as shown on the scale in photos (before packaging).
Condition details: see condition field for full description of dust jackets, boards, and interior pages.
Condition: Color pictorial dust jackets on all four volumes show light to moderate shelf and handling wear with surface rubbing, faint scratches, and soft creases, most noticeable as a horizontal crease and small wrinkles along the lower front edge of Inside Architecture and scattered spotting and discoloration near the upper front panel of Bay Area Houses. Jacket corners and spine ends are mildly bumped with a few tiny chips but no large tears, and the boards beneath remain clean with minimal edge wear. Page edges display slight age toning on Bay Area Houses, while interiors across the set are clean and bright with crisp text and images and no writing, highlighting, or library stamps. Bindings are tight and square on all four hardcovers with no loose or missing pages, and no supplemental inserts or slipcases are included beyond the dust jackets.