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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9781579121075
ISBN: 1579121071
Label: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 132
Publication Date: 2000-08
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Sales Rank: 265932
Studio: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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This book of architectural blueprints is a loving, if obsessive, tribute to the minutiae of televised domestic life. Author Mark Bennett's excrutiatingly detailed plans span 25 years of television history, from Tiger's doghouse on The Brady Bunch to The Addams Family's entire manor, including Lurch's harpsichord, Gomez's train set, and Uncle Fester's laboratory. Also included are Laverne and Shirley's bachelorette pad, The Jetson's space unit, and Archie and Edith Bunker's Queens row house. Incredibly, all the plans are drawn to be architecturally feasible; that is, one could actually build from them. To accomplish this feat, the author often had to imagine rooms and areas not shown on the television programs, but only referred to, like Ward Cleaver's den or Ralph and Alice Kramden's bedroom. Included are detailed renderings not only of the characters' homes, but their entire towns, such as the whole of Mayberry and a complete layout of Gilligan's Island.
Product Description:
Author and artist Mark Bennett compiles his entertaining collection of blueprints extrapolated from the storylines and sets of the 1950s to 1980s television sitcom homes millions of Americans grew up with. An extraordinary work of imagination, these blueprints of TV homes that are as familiar to us as our neighbor's den and backyard give us a fascinating "real life" view that the camera angles never offered.
From Ward and June Cleaver's house to Rob and Laura Petrie's apartment to Mary Richards's Minneapolis bachelorette apartment to the Jetson's "house" in the clouds, each home is lovingly recreated with painstaking precision in the fine blue lines of architectural blueprints.
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As others have written, it makes no sense to criticize Mark Bennett for his drafting prowess or lack thereof. He draws blueprints as well as can be hoped for for an amateur draftsman. That is, he draws better than most of us can hope to do. Even Franz Joseph Schnaubelt, who was a professional, had numerous inaccuracies in his historic "Booklet of General Plans" (a.k.a. Star Trek U.S.S. Enterprise blueprints). There's only so much you can do with fantasy plans. Aside from the sets changing often, ... Read More
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Reall a fun romp into the old past favorites. I really loved seeing the plans for the Addams family and Mr. Ed. If you always wondered, now you'll know whats behind that door!
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This book is as close as you'll get to actually entering the beloved houses of the programs we all loved as kids. Neat-o!!!
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Im half happy an half not. As a classic tv fan the book fules highly my interest in the past but does so at the cost of inteligent architecture. The author is supposed to be a good drafter but clearly did not do his homework. All one has to do is watch old episodes and differences between this books plans and the actual sets stand out like lava in the artic.
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Ok... I liked the book,but i am a BIG fan of mash, and he had this totally wrong. The Conels office was attached to the same building as the hospital, and the recovery ward.
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