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Book: Stonework: Designing with Stone

Staff -- Interior Design, 4/22/2002 4:11:00 PM

reviewed by Stanley Abercrombie

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Stonework: Designing with Stone
	Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing Group, distributed by Antique Collectors' Club, Wappingers Falls, New York by Malcolm Holzman 212 pages, 220 color illustrations; $60.00
A love poem to a favorite building material, this book shows imaginative exterior and interior uses of stone, often in stunning images. Architect Malcolm Holzman, a founding partner of Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates and member of the Interior Design Hall of Fame, draws on HHPA work but also shows buildings by H.H. Richardson and Kevin Roche, an ancient Egyptian temple, a Gothic cathedral, Scottish castles, Inca fortifications, and even an American gas station. The text praises stone's permanence, environmental friendliness, and appearance. Holzman offers tips for relatively inexpensive fabrication methods and, while this is not a technical guide, an appendix with working-drawing details that add a practical dimension.

Interior Design Magazine, April, 2002
Classification: Landscape
Decorative Arts
Ornament

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