Douglas Snelling Pan-Pacific Modern Design and Architecture

• Main Author: Jackson, Davina (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London New York Routledge 2017
• Series: Ashgate Studies in Architecture Series
• Subjects: Snelling, Douglas > 1916-1985 > Criticism and interpretation; Midcentury modern (Architecture) > Pacific Area; Design > History > 20th century > Pacific Area
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• Physical Description: xx, 274 pages illustrations 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-267) and index
• ISBN: 9781472459886; 1472459881

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.