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Island style : tropical dream houses in Indonesia. / text by Gillian Beal ; photos by Jacob Termansen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Singapore : Periplus, c2002.Description: 191 p. : col. ill. 31 cmISBN:
  • 962593415-4
Subject(s): Summary: permanently open, not peripheral or ancillary to the main activities. Contents: Island dream houses, Island ethnic, Island contemporary, and Island decorating.Summary: 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 focusSummary: 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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Reference Reference Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Reference NK 2080 .B361 2002 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 3AEA0000271009

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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