[Reprint] SZYDŁOWSKI Tadeusz - Dwór w Rogowie - Zabytek budownictwa drewnianego XVII wieku. Cracow [1918].

[Reprint] SZYDŁOWSKI Tadeusz - Dwór w Rogowie - Zabytek budownictwa drewnianego XVII wieku. Cracow 1918. published by the Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Format:21x30cm. Pages:54. Hardcover, sewn, embossed eco leather, rubbed. Illustrations, designs.

Monograph of a beautiful larch manor house burned by Russian soldiers in 1942 in the village of Rogów in the former Kielce province. "... To the important question of whether we had our own original architecture in the past, whether in the buildings of our past centuries were manifested native, creative elements, crystallized into a certain independent Polish style, we should seek an answer first and foremost in the study of monuments of wooden construction. When almost until the end of the eighteenth century a considerable part of wood was used in Poland as building material, and not only villages but also towns were built from wood, and nobleman's mansions were erected almost exclusively from wood, this universality of building in wood created all conditions for the development of a specific, native beauty ...".

Photooffset reprint of the 1918 edition. Graphic design and preparation for printing Graf_ika Usługi Wydawnicze Iwona Knechta. Warsaw 2009.

Includes drawings made by Wieslaw Zarzycki and photographs taken by the author.