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We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50178754248977,"sku":"CIN0292730438G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0292730438.jpg?v=1751324090"},{"product_id":"harwell-hamilton-harris-book-lisa-germany-9780520226197","title":"Harwell Hamilton Harris","description":"Lisa Germany's biography of Harwell Hamilton Harris (1903-1990) details the work of an architect who successfully merged the ideals of modern and California regionalist architecture. Harris was a sculptor who changed careers when he saw Wright's Hollyhock House and realized that an architect could make sculpture on a monumental scale that both functioned as a home and moved in and out of nature. Germany traces the development of Harris's life and career, assessing his place in American modernism, in the development of regionalist architecture, and in the interpretation of a modern California lifestyle that would gain admirers throughout the world. Her discussion opens a window into the complexities of modernism in America during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50207073272081,"sku":"CIN0520226194G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51323609383185,"sku":"CIN0520226194VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0520226194.jpg?v=1750879484"},{"product_id":"houses-of-the-sundown-sea-book-lisa-germany-9781419700491","title":"Houses of the Sundown Sea","description":"For more than 60 years, passersby have strained to catch a glimpse of maverick architect Harry Gesner’s houses in Southern California. This is the first book to examine Gesner’s architecture, tracing his career from 1945 to the present and opening the doors to 15 of Gesner’s intriguing homes, all located in or near Los Angeles and built in the 1950s and 1960s. An insightful and revealing text accompanies new photography by Juergen Nogai along with historical photographs and Gesner’s own drawings, floor plans, and blueprints drawn from his remarkably rich archive. Gesner’s utterly unique, often eccentric and unorthodox designs are outside the canons of doctrinaire modernism, yet he is undoubtedly a Modernist, and one whose romantic, quixotic nature has caused his truly extraordinary body of work to be overlooked by many—until now.Praise for Houses of the Sundown Sea:“Harry Gesner’s life story is so exciting that a new monograph on his work reads like a John Buchan tale, or the next Laura Hillenbrand project, instead of the usual jargon-infested coffee-table book about a venerable architect.” —New York Times\"As soon as design junkies get a glimpse of Gesner's soaring creations, they're sure to be wild about Harry.\" —Los Angeles Times Magazine“The stories about [Gesner] life’s adventures are almost as glorious as the nature-inspired homes he builds, and both are detailed in an about-to-be released coffee table book” —The Huffington Post \"A compelling mix of prose and photos\" —Los Angeles magazine","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50479164358929,"sku":"GOR013796203","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1419700499.jpg?v=1751209125"},{"product_id":"great-houses-of-texas-book-lisa-germany-9780810993938","title":"Great Houses of Texas","description":"Texas occupies a special place in the American myth: It is the home of the Wild West, the Rio Grande, cowboys, Indians and the Alamo; the word 'gumption' springs to mind. In \"Great Houses of Texas\", author and resident Lisa Germany traces the architectural history of this self-made region, in which the land itself is the protagonist, through portraits of more than 25 homes built between 1853 and 2003, beginning with the Greek Revival and Victorian mansions of East Texas planters. Over the last 150 years, changing tastes have attracted architects like David Williams and O'Neil Ford (in Dallas and later San Antonio), as well as Chester Nagel, a former pupil of Walter Gropius. Even as Modernism permeated design sensibilities, the strong regional character and indigenous building forms remained, but as always, the land is the final authority on and shaper of lifestyles in the Lone Star State.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51423033229585,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51423034212625,"sku":"CIN0810993937G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0810993937.jpg?v=1750883218"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-lisa-germany.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}