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TELEPHONE BOXES by Gavin Stamp. 1989

Description:
106 page reference book.

Gavin Stamp traces the evolution of the telephone kiosk, and discusses the climate of opinion which, early in this century, insisted on the importance of good public design; he goes on to chart the decline of such attitudes, ending with the unnecessary replacement of the traditional kiosks by new boxes of unworthy and tawdry design...

Gavin Stamp is an architectural historian and writer. As Chairman of the Thirties Society and an admirer of the architecture of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott he has been much involved in the campaign to preserve the red telephone kiosk from extinction.