Island style : tropical dream houses in Indonesia. /
Beal, Gillian
Island style : tropical dream houses in Indonesia. / text by Gillian Beal ; photos by Jacob Termansen. - Singapore : Periplus, c2002. - 191 p. : col. ill. 31 cm.
permanently open, not peripheral or ancillary to the main activities. Contents: Island dream houses, Island ethnic, Island contemporary, and Island decorating. they blend into their environment and use traditional materials. Throughout the archipelago house building has spiritual dimension, and the local people are skilled master craftsmen. Seen in their houses are kudus style, the high-relief open-wood carving that is one of the most technically accomplished in Indonesia. Most of the houses highlight the relationship to the natural environment. Geoffrey Baw, the father of contemporary tropical design said, "In the tropics, an open-to-sky space must be the focus Features various dream, contemporary, and ethnic houses in Indonesia. Evident in the furnishings is the extensive use of wood, stones, bamboo, brass and nipa leaf. Features houses which have common identity, fused traditions of local architecture and the influence of modernism
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Architecture
Interior decoration
Interior decoration
Island style : tropical dream houses in Indonesia. / text by Gillian Beal ; photos by Jacob Termansen. - Singapore : Periplus, c2002. - 191 p. : col. ill. 31 cm.
permanently open, not peripheral or ancillary to the main activities. Contents: Island dream houses, Island ethnic, Island contemporary, and Island decorating. they blend into their environment and use traditional materials. Throughout the archipelago house building has spiritual dimension, and the local people are skilled master craftsmen. Seen in their houses are kudus style, the high-relief open-wood carving that is one of the most technically accomplished in Indonesia. Most of the houses highlight the relationship to the natural environment. Geoffrey Baw, the father of contemporary tropical design said, "In the tropics, an open-to-sky space must be the focus Features various dream, contemporary, and ethnic houses in Indonesia. Evident in the furnishings is the extensive use of wood, stones, bamboo, brass and nipa leaf. Features houses which have common identity, fused traditions of local architecture and the influence of modernism
962593415-4
Architecture
Interior decoration
Interior decoration
