pleasure chateaux pavilions versailles

books:

2 reviews
Bernd H. Dams, Andrew Zega

Rizzoli, 2008

Absolutely beautiful!
If you're into Chinoserie at all, this is a beautiful addition to your design library- that is, if you can refrain from cutting up the book to hang the pages on the wall. I couldn't, and now I have a beautiful graphic collection of framed panels from this book over my living room sofa. I'm buying a second copy of the book just so I can keep one to read. The text accompanying each structure is ...

Pleasure Pavilions and Follies: In the Gardens of the Ancien Regime

1 review
Bernd H. Dams, Andrew Zega

Flammarion-Pere Castor, 1995

Garden Follies of Pre-Revolutionary France
Bernd H. Dams researched the architectural and garden history, and Andrew Zega produced the fifty watercolors illustrating the pavilions and follies of this book which accompanied a pair of exhibitions in New York City and Paris in the mid 1990s. Each chapter is devoted to folly in chronological order and also includes period engravings and paintings, original architectural plans, and portraits ...

Palaces of the Sun King: Versailles, Trianon, Marly--The Chateaux of Louis XIV

2 reviews

Rizzoli International Publications, 2002

Excellent overview of the many structures of Louis XIV!
This book covers many structures, commissioned by Louis XIV, that were either built or were designed but not executed. The pictures that the authors did themselves are spetacular! The text is also above average. I however must warn you it is not worth $135.00 which is the book's retail price. The book's length was a huge dissapointment. It is only 208 pages (not 224 as they say in the book ...