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Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.
Floor plan of a basic Virginia-style hall-and-parlor house. An example from the colonial period of the United States, Resurrection Manor, near Hollywood, Maryland, was built c. 1660 and demolished 2002. A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. [1]
The Real Reason Designers Style Books Backwards on Shelves. editor@purewow.com (PureWow) April 5, 2021 at 12:00 PM. If you want to learn a lot about a person, look at what’s on their bookshelves.
Central-passage house evolved primarily in colonial Maryland and Virginia from the hall and parlor house, beginning to appear in greater numbers by about 1700. [1] [2] It partially developed as greater economic security and developing social conventions transformed the reality of the American landscape, but it was also heavily influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and ...
Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though largely forgotten today, [relies upon] methods and rules upon which it is impossible to improve ...
A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space. In medieval Christian Europe, the "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery and the "inner parlour" was used for necessary conversation between resident members. In the English-speaking world of the 18th and 19th century ...
Here, we curated our list of the best new design books of 2025. While some come out later in the year, you can still pre-order them now as a wonderful treat to your future self. Happy reading!
In his book on folk architecture in north-central Missouri, Marshall devotes nine pages to the I-house after investigation of close to 100 old houses in the “Little Dixie” region of Missouri. [6] He calls the I-house the “Farmer’s Mansion.” It is the Southern-style house sought by a middle-class planter, a symbol of his success.