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Manhole Covers

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Author : Mark Dawson (Researcher on manhole covers)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

Manhole Covers written by Mark Dawson (Researcher on manhole covers) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Manhole covers categories.

Manhole Covers

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Author : Mimi Melnick
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1996-08-01

Manhole Covers written by Mimi Melnick and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-01 with Photography categories.

They lie underfoot, embellished and gleaming. They seal off and provide entry to an underground world of conduits, water mains, power lines, and sewers. They appear by the thousands in our cities, but very few people ever look at them or think about them as art. At once completely ordinary and totally unexpected, manhole covers present an infinite variety of design in the commonplace as well as a record of defunct utility companies, forgotten business firms, and obsolete foundries. Manhole Covers documents this singular form of urban industrial art and its place in American culture. Mimi and Robert Melnick first revealed their obsession with street hardware twenty years ago in a remarkable little book called Manhole Covers of Los Angeles (1974). Printed in a small format and a limited edition, it quickly went out of print and is now a scarce collector's item. But that was just an introduction to their larger project, which has come to fruition in this book of 200 photographs and an extended narrative documenting manhole covers throughout the United States and discussing the history of their use, manufacture, and function. A subject that at first seems straightforward and commonplace becomes redolent and poetic in the Melnicks' hands, for their hieroglyphic reading of manhole covers reveals a chapter of urban history that can only be recovered from the logos and markings of these early disks. There are square lids, convex lids, perforated lids. And the older ones wear an astonishingly diverse range of anything-but-blank faces expressed in raised crosses, waffle grids, cut-out diamonds, radial stars, floral patterns, and honeycomb treads. The diversity of design corresponds to an equally diverse typology of form and function, as indicated by their evocative labels: handholes, vents, coalholes, grates, lampholes, storm drains, steam covers, meter lids, traffic buttons.

Manhole Covers Of The World

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language : en
Publisher: Niggli
Release Date : 2022-10-11

Manhole Covers Of The World written by and has been published by Niggli this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with categories.

Drainspotting

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Author : Remo Camerota
language : en
Publisher: Mark Batty Publisher
Release Date : 2010

Drainspotting written by Remo Camerota and has been published by Mark Batty Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Decorative arts categories.

Photographs of decorated Japanese manhole covers.

Street Covers

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Author : Jacopo Pavesi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Street Covers written by Jacopo Pavesi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Industrial design categories.

Most people would not automatically think of manhole covers as works of art but that, suggest the authors, may be because they have not realized what they are looking at. Scouring the pavements of London, Paris, Rome, Amsterdam and Berlin, they show how the humble street cover has become a classic of industrial design, as worthy of our admiration as fountains, phone boxes or any other item of street furniture that now enjoys iconic status.

Manhole Covers Etc

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Author : Francis Gardino
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013

Manhole Covers Etc written by Francis Gardino and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Manhole covers categories.

Manhole Covers

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Author : Louise Downe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-07-24

Manhole Covers written by Louise Downe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-24 with categories.

23 hole cover patterns from Italy, Slovenia and Great Britian