The Door to a Secret Room: A Portrait of Wells Coates by Cohn, Laura

Ashgate Publishing Limited. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Used; Good. **Simply Brit** Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. We have dispatched from our book depository; items of good condition to over ten million satisfied customers worldwide. We are committed to providing you with reliable and efficient service at all times. 05/28/1999

Wells Coates is now seen as a seminal figure in the modern movement in architecture in Britain. His blocks of flats, his shop and office designs, houses, interiors, radios, and other industrial designs, were evidence of his commitment to a functional aesthetic and of his refusal to compromise his own high standards. Wells Coates's daughter Laura Cohn has written this book to try to illustrate the conflicts, qualities and disappointments of an extraordinary man. 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. First edition, first printing. Blue cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, small closed tear to edge of back cover, no inscriptions. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

Ashgate Publishing Limited. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1999. Hardback. 1840146958 . Dust jacket creased at top-edge, a touch rubbed w/ superficial scratching, very minimal age-toning on flaps; Blue paper boards, gilt lettering bright; Pages crisp, no ownership marks, B&W plates; Binding tight. Written by Laura Cohn as a portrait of her father, this edition is densely illustrated by photographs and drawings from Coates's life. ; 7 x 9.25"; 240 pages .

UK: Scolar Press, 1999-05-28. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7x1x9.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.