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| Pierre Koenig | 
 enlarge | Authors: James Steele, David Jenkins
Creators: Julius Schulman, Tim Street-porter
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Category: Book
Buy Used: £62.90
New (1) from £478.04
Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1441688
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 10.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0714837539
Dewey Decimal Number: 720
EAN: 9780714837536
ASIN: 0714837539
Publication Date: November 30, 1998
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Ships from US; Please allow 14-24 business days for your book to arrive in the UK. Reliable customer service and no-hassle return policy.
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Modernist master Koenig well represented here. June 22, 1999
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Some books are so good you can't put them down. Some, of course, are so bad you can't wait till they end, and the going is slow. The going is slow for James Steele and David Jenkins' book Pierre Koenig... for the opposite reason. After a quick glance at the magnificent pictures and some of the text, I wanted to take my time. I dreaded the moment I'd have to close the back cover and say goodbye to this book. Koenig designed mostly in steel... but throw away your notions of an "industrial" look.. for Koenig, steel was a means of building, and a way to express a contemporary style. As someone who was born and raised in and amongst Eichlers, I was very gratified to discover how wide spread the "California style" was for a period. The style seems to have lasted -and evolved- in public buildings, but residential builders lost their nerve and returned to something more conventional. Since many of my architectural heroes have passed away, or changed styles, it's nice to know Koenig is still around, still designing, and still promoting the use of steel as the palette for expression of this Zen-like style. As for completing the book? Well, I understand now why we have "coffee table" books... so you can re-live the first time you read a book like this, through the eyes of someone else.
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