WW Norton
"Doors of the World" shows a colorful array of doors and doorways around the world, from a sandstone portal in Morocco to a classically austere double-paneled entryway with sculpted lintel on Ile-de-France in Paris to a bamboo-lined aperture in China. Here are Dutch, double, sliding, and rotating doors, cornices, pediments, doorknockers, lintels and sculpted panels. Charged with a certain mystery-at once enclosing and exposing an interior space-the door is a primal and essential architectural element. Drawing on their extensive travels and years of research conducting site analyses of the chromatic palettes of villages and cities worldwide, Jean-Philippe and Dominique Lenclos show how the diverse proportions, designs, materials, and colors of entryways reflect the geography, traditions, and culture of local habitats.If you read this article, please circle number 303.
