The Architectural Digest: A Pictorial Digest of Outstanding Architecture, Interior Decoration and Landscaping ( 20 issues 1949 - 1963 )

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Los Angeles: John C. Brasfield, 1963. Softcover. fair. Unique collection containing 17 large and 3 extra (small) issues. The magazine was published quarterly (2 large issues & 2 extra issues published annually). The larger issues contain residential and some commercial architecture with a focus on luxury California homes, which were designed or decorated by notable architects and designers of the period. Approx. 60 illustrated advertisement pages in rear of each issue. Extra issues with few pages, typically focused on one residence. Earlier issues not dated. Our collection starts with Volume XII, Number 3 (1949) and ends with Volume XX, Number 1 (Spring 1963). Folio. All with original photographic wraps and profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs. Issues in our collection: Volume XII, Number 3, 200pp. Volume XII, Number 4, 232pp. Volume XIII, Number 3, 256pp. Volume XIII, Number 4, 240pp. Volume XIV, Number 2, 184pp. Volume XIV, Number 3, 220pp. Volume XIV, Number 4, 192pp. Volume XV, Number 1, 240pp. Volume XV, Number 2, 192pp. Volume XV, Number 3, 202pp. Volume XV, Number 4, 216pp. Volume XVI, Number 3, 208pp. Volume XVI, Number 4, 196pp. Volume XVII, Number 2, 12pp. (extra issue). Volume XVII, Number 3, Fall 1960, 246pp. Volume XVIII, Number 2. 16pp. (extra issue). Volume XIX, Number 1, Spring 1962, 224pp. Volume XIX, Number 3, Fall 1962, 200pp. Volume XIX, Number 4, Winter 1963, 18pp. (extra issue). Volume XX, Number 1, Spring 1963, 200pp. WITH unnumbe

Publisher: John C. Brasfield
Year: 1963
Binding: unknown

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