Old New Zealand Houses 1800-1940. Florilegium

Florilegium

the Pacific and Australia

This new edition has been completely revised and new material has been added

A superb pictorial reference

Tells the fascinating and frustrating story of the Nelson Section NZR

Old New Zealand Houses 1800-1940. FlorilegiumJeremy Salmond. A history and a celebration of the vernacular houses of old New Zealand. It is full of details about construction and materials and traces stylistic history from the early whare, to colonial cob, settler cottage, the villa, the California bungalow, arts and crafts and early modernism. Very well illustrated, this superior book must be regarded as the classic work on the subject. Reed Methuen Publishers Ltd., Auckland, 1998. ISBN