better homes and gardens home building ideas 1955

These Better Homes annuals of home plans for five star homes are our some of our all time favorite mid century modern references. Some of the best architects were commissioned to design houses for the Better Homes Five Star home plans, which you could order by mail.

Includes the following five star plans: 1005, 1512, 1801, 1811, 1904, 2001, 2004, 2010, 2012,2101,2104, 2106,2107, 2202, 2203, 2204, 2205, 2206, 2211, 2212, 2301, 2304, 2306, 2311, 2312, 2401, 2402, 2403, 2404, 2405, 2406, 2407, 2408, 2409, 2410.

Plan 2205 is by Palmquist and Wright. Plan 2410 is by Walter Gruber. Many other examples showing floor plans and photos of good modernist postwar housing including works by Robert Jones (Carmel, California), Jones and Duncan (Highland Park, Illinois), Pietro Belluschi (Deschutes River, Oregon), George and William Keck and Carl Koch. And many many more.

Color and black and white photos and floor plans. Hardcover library binding.

OVERALL = B- Good Minus Condition COVER: Ex-library book with all attendant markings. INTERIOR: Pages browning with age and several small tears throughout. Hardcover library binding over original magazine format. pub date: 1955 publisher: Meredith pages: 202 format: Hardcover sku: B771088 $175.00