Doorways of Ireland (Shelfworn) by Michael Fewer

13 in stock

285mm x 260mm x 19mm

Pages: 128

We all relate readily to doorways - the possibilities they open up, their romance. The doorway tells us much about a building, its purpose and its occupier; and it has, throughout the ages, attracted the art of the designer and the skill of the craftsman perhaps more than any other architectural element. Michael Fewer considers function, style, composition, components and materials, together with design influences. The doors he examines range from the humblest to the most impressive, and from the architecturally significant to the whimsical, from the Seefin cairn at Kilbride, County Wicklow, dating from 3000 BC, to the eighteenth century doors of Merrion Square, Dublin, and, coming right up to date, the doors of the National Gallery Millennium Wing.