Douglas Snelling: Pan-Pacific Modern Design and Architecture

Douglas Burrage Snelling (1916-85) was one of Britain's significant emigré architects and designers. Born in Kent and educated in New Zealand, he became one of Australia's leading mid-century architects, of luxury residences and commercial buildings, and a trend-setting designer of furniture, interiors and landscapes. This is the first comprehensive study of Snelling's pan-Pacific life, works and trans-disciplinary significance. It provides a critical examination of this controversial modernist, revealing him to be a colourful and talented protagonist who led antipodean interpretations of American, especially Wrightian and southern Californian, architecture, design and lifestyle innovations.

Author: Davina Jackson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/18/2018
Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.69h x 6.85w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9781138368620