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New Orleans Style: Past and Present | 
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| Author: Susan Sully
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 305226
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 10.2 x 9.4 x 1
ISBN: 0847826627
Dewey Decimal Number: 747.0976335
EAN: 9780847826629
ASIN: 0847826627
Publication Date: December 17, 2004
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Condition: NEW - IT IS NEW - It is in its NEW dust cover, and it is without a remainder mark
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Product Description
New Orleans Style: Past and Present reveals the complex character and varied architectural traditions of the South's greatest city. Thanks to its history as a colony of both France and Spain, New Orleans is America's most European city, particularly in the Vieux Carré, or French Quarter. Add to this the city's well-known reputation for fantasy and decadence, as displayed in its annual Carnival and Mardi Gras celebrations, and you have a recipe for irresistibly fascinating architecture and décor.
New Orleans Style explores the city's full architectural range and the incredible variety of its decoration, providing an overview of the city's preservation movement while exploring the distinct neighborhoods and architectural styles, as well as the mingling of influences and impulses, that make New Orleans so uniquely cosmopolitan, sensual, and mysterious.
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 New Orleans Style July 5, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well written and good in its selection of a variethy of types, typically found in New Orleans. The photography, exceptionally important in this kind of book, is excellent. New Orleans' architecture is unique, from its shotgun cottages along the river, to its grand, Garden District houses. They're all here, and make me yearn to return to New Orleans.
beautiful book March 16, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a gorgeous book of homes of residents of New Orleans. These are real people who love their city, their history and their residences. Susan Sully shows that to its full extent.
A Sumptuous Tribute February 22, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
"New Orleans Style" is a sumptuous, colorful tribute to our city and a worthy companion to Susan Sully's other books on Charleston and Savannah. Her research is, as always, impeccable with rich, lush prose appropriate for this most exotic of U.S. cities, and it's ideally complemented by Paula Illingworth's photographs. No student of American architecture and style should be without Sully's dazzling trilogy of the Deep South's "treasure cities."
 dissappointed January 20, 2005
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
how can you have a book about past new orleans and not mention shotgun houses a very bad decision
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