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The magic stove : Barry, Soyer and The Reform Club or how a great chef helped to create a great building / Thomas A.P. Leeuwen.
- Title
- The magic stove : Barry, Soyer and The Reform Club or how a great chef helped to create a great building / Thomas A.P. Leeuwen.
- Author
- Leeuwen, Thomas A. P. van,
- Publication
- Heyningen : JAP SAM Books, 2020.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NA7915.G72 L665 2020g | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 91 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, plans, portrait; 23 cm
- Summary
- This little book with the lengthy title 'The Magic Stove: Barry, Soyer and The Reform Club or How a Great Chef Helped to Create Great Building' explores the architecture and technology of the London Reform Club building (1837-1840), a noted but generally misinterpreted work of Charles Barry, Britain?s most famous unknown nineteenth-century architect. Barry?s fame rests mainly on two over-familiar monuments: the Houses of Parliament and Highclere Castle, the decor of television drama Downton Abbey. The other name is Alexis Soyer, almost mythical chef-de-cuisine who introduced not only French style of cooking but also mechanization of food preparation on a large scale, which he first practiced in collaboration with Barry in the design of the futuristic kitchen of the Reform Club. The result was a machine like building of proto-fire-proofing construction, in which a steam engine drove the spits of the kitchen, smoke and cooking odors were evacuated by a primitive form of air-conditioning and in which gas was introduced not just for lighting but for the first time for cooking. Contemporary visiting French architecture critic César Daly called the building 'almost a living being'.0.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9789082669008
- 9082669005
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries