The little house : an architectural seduction / Jean-François de Bastide ; translation and introduction by Rodolphe el-Khoury ; preface by Anthony Vidler.

Author
Bastide, Jean-François de, 1724-1798 [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Princeton Architectual Press, ©1996.
Description
116 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm

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Architecture Library - Stacks PQ1955.B715 P4813 1995 Browse related items Request
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      "Exemplary of an 18th-century literary genre that combined fictional narrative with didactic observations on art and architecture, The Little House tells the tale of a seduction in a maison de plaisance outside of Paris. The house itself - its architecture, gardens, artwork, and furnishings - is the central element of a story in which an impressionable woman mistakes good taste for good intentions, with unforeseen results. The Little House, long an underground classic among architectural historians and theorists, has never before been published in English. Anthony Vidler's insightful preface and Rodolphe el-Khoury's informative introduction, notes, and careful translation make the novella more accessible to the contemporary reader."--Jacket.
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      ISBN
      • 1568980175
      • 9781568980171
      LCCN
      95021834
      OCLC
      32698853
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