Name: For The Love of Ireland's Buildings By Michael Lunt
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For The Love of Ireland's Buildings: Treasures from fifty years of the Roadstone Calendar by Michael Lunt

For the Love of Ireland's Buildings takes us on a tour of our built heritage, from ancient monuments to Modern architecture. For over fifty years the iconic Roadstone Calendar celebrated Ireland's architectural treasures and triumphs of engineering, with artwork by Michael Lunt. Drawing on gems from that archive, the artist explores Ireland's rich architectural legacy. Highlights include ancient sites, beautiful eighteenth- and nineteenth-century architecture, attractive shop fronts, atmospheric workers' cottages, key places of work, twentieth-century innovations, and notable engineering projects, among them lighthouses, harbours, and bridges.

Pen portraits from the original Roadstone calendars by architect Sean Rothery, writer Bernard Share and experts such as maritime historian John de Courcy Ireland detail key historical, architectural and environmental facts and stress the ongoing need for restoration and reinvention.

For the Love of Ireland's Buildings is a must for lovers of Ireland's rich and at times surprising built heritage.

About Michael Lunt

Michael Lunt designed for several leading Dublin advertising agencies during the 1950s and 1960 until he became an independent graphic designer in 1968. His experience spans a period of technological revolution: from early days working with T-squares and metal type to today's digital world.

Roadstone, and later CRH of which Roadstone was a founder member, became Michael Lunt's principal client and patron. He designed his first Roadstone Calendar in 1962, continuing with the commission for the next forty-nine years. The Roadstone Calendar hung in thousands of Irish homes and businesses, and the art reflects the artist's love of Ireland's built heritage.

Michael Lunt also taught design at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art and Technology, while executing major projects for AIB and IDA and creating the initial design for the magazine Technology Ireland for the IIRS.

Having spent most of his working life in Dublin, Michael Lunt is now retired and lives in Wexford.

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NGR9781788494465

ISBN 13

9781788494465

ISBN 10

1788494466

Title

For The Love of Ireland's Buildings: Treasures from fifty years of the Roadstone Calendar by Michael Lunt

Author

Michael Lunt

Condition

New

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

O'Brien Press Ltd

Year published

2023-11-13

Number of pages

160

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For The Love of Ireland's Buildings Michael Lunt

For The Love of Ireland's Buildings by Michael Lunt

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For The Love of Ireland's Buildings Summary

For The Love of Ireland's Buildings: Treasures from fifty years of the Roadstone Calendar by Michael Lunt

About Michael Lunt

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