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1.0 out of 5 stars Really, really bad delivery people, Sep 26 2009

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Suzanne Pyles "Suzanne Pyles" (SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place (Hardcover)

I wanted it to get there on my Grandsons Birthday,paid extra for this, but they said they did not deliver to rural areas. The delivery people seemed to be teenagers, they would run on the porch and leave a note. And run off. My Grandsons mother was watering the lawn when she saw them, leave the note and run off the porch, she had to run to the road and spread her arms and stop them to get the book. Next time I will order elsewhere. They could have left the package at the post office. Very very poor delivery people.

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4.0 out of 5 stars How about all the other rooms ?, Mar 31 2003

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This review is from: Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place (Hardcover)

It's unfortunate this is the only hardcover picture book of the Biltmore, available at the time of this review. Because it was the best one I could find, I bought it albeit, reluctantly as I like to have a picture book keepsake when I visit these places. There are many beautiful and often full page colour photographs, but there are also many black and white. Some of the latter are historical, so that is understandable, but others are not. With a predominance of construction pictures and the emphasis on the actual building process which of course ties into the history. This focus veers away from the main objective of a picture book momento, to include plenty of photographs of both the interior and exterior, preferably at least one colour photograph of each room. The estate boasts 255 rooms, and hardly 10% of them are represented. I would like to see this book enlarged to 3 times the size, with about 200 more interior pictures, then Rizzoli, who usually produces outstanding books of this genre, could up the price, but it would be worth it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Magic of Biltmore!, Oct 13 2001

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Austin Brown (Yorktown, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place (Hardcover)

I found this book on George Washington Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate in Ashville, North Carolina, to be extremelly through. This book includes sketchs of many of the considered facades for the home, and what their floorplans would have been.

Pictures of all of the beautiful rooms in the house are included in this publication. Also included are sketchs of the many details of the home, included are the east facade, the Gate House, the gates that set next to the house, the Biltmore Village Church, and sketchs of many of the statues from Biltmore's gardens.

Also included in this book is the histories of many of the principal players in Biltmore's creation, including Fredrick Law Olmsted the landscape designer, Richard Morris Hunt the arcitect, and of course George Vanderbilt the home's owner.
Included is many of the landscape designs of Biltmore's gardens, and beautiful pictures of many of them. Pictures of Biltmore's Conservatory are included which sits in Biltmore's Walled Garden, to the north of Biltmore House.

All in all, this book is great, and a great companion to a day long visit to Biltmore! If you loved Biltmore Estate, you'll love this book, I garentee it!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Too much black and white?
I enjoyed the story, don't get me wrong, but as for the pictures, yes it had numerous colors, but mainly black and white. I was surprised. Read more

Published on Sep 29 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Information but with a high price!
After recently visiting Biltmore, I was curious about how it all began, relating to the ideas of construction and architecture. Read more

Published on Jun 10 2001 by E. P. Turner