Gillon Edmond (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Appears Not Used.9" X 10" 171 Pages. Gillon, Edmond V. (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: VERY GOOD. Believed to be the personal working copy of notable American architect David Kahler, FAIA, w/ a signature attributed to him to the title page, else unmarked. Very Good. First Thus. 1995. Dover Publications, Mineola, NY. Paperback: black & sepia-toned glossy pictorial covers, clean & bright, light edge & shelf wear, light crease at the top of the spine. Frontispiece, 135 b&w photographic halftones & 78 architectural line drawings, plans, cutaways & engineering diagrams throughout. 203 pp, preceded by xvi preliminary pages & followed by publisher illustration catalog leaves. 6.5x9.25 in. (Quarto). Ships from the USA, quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: With provenance attributed to American architect David Kahler, FAIA, The Railroad Station: An Architectural History is the scholarly investigation into the global development of passenger terminal design. Carroll L.V. Meeks traces the emergence of the train station from early nineteenth-century utilitarian sheds to monumental Beaux-Arts, Romanesque, and modern transit gateways across Europe and North America. Architectural scholarship throughout the monograph analyzes the depot as a cultural and technological manifestation of the Industrial Revolution. Published by Dover Publications in 1995 as an unabridged republication of the 1956 Yale University Press study, the work is heavily illustrated, combining black-and-white photographic halftones with engineering diagrams, floor plans, and cutaways drawn by Jack Rose. Saul Steinberg supplied the expressive frontispiece, while Edmond Gillon, Jr. oversaw the cover design. Historical analysis covers terminals including London's Charing Cross, Berlin's Anhalter Bahnhof, Paris's Gare Saint-Lazare, and New York's Pennsylvania Station designed by McKim, Mead & White. Meeks, a Yale University professor and former president of the Society of Architectural Historians, received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Award for this structural taxonomy of nineteenth-century picturesque eclecticism. Preserved as an association copy believed to link two figures in American architectural history, the volume connects Meeks's scholarship to the working reference collection of David Kahler, 1936 to 2026, FAIA fellow, leader of Kahler Slater, co-architect of the Milwaukee Art Museum's Quadracci Pavilion alongside Santiago Calatrava, and board member of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art. Scholars of industrial heritage, preservation architects, and transportation historians treat the treatise as a benchmark in civic engineering and urban history. Saul Steinberg; Jack Rose; Edmond Gillon, Jr. (illustrator).…

Scroll. Condition: New. Scroll encased in silk box , plus cardboard box shipping container.225" x 10" w/ additional 8" of blank on ends .Ribbon tie. This is new inventory. Purchased large amount of closeouts from wholesale distributor which were published by Johnson Pub 1880-1990.Sold store and put excess inventory in storage. I do not know if these were actually published by Johnson Pub or if JP was just the distributor.These definitely were part of the an order from Johnson Pub.JP published many limited ed, quality, high end titles. . No dates or other to indicate publisher, etc. Also see my listing for another scroll " Eighty Seven Immortals ". Gillon, Edmond V. (illustrator).…