Dan M. Talbot An Immemorial Celtic Wind

In An Immemorial Celtic Wind, Dan M. Talbott tells an ambiguous personal chroncile of half-timbered architecture through a collage of historical and popular texts. Shifting from memories of the author’s childhood home to passages drawn from antique trade journals, lost blog posts, and hyper-nationalist architectural screeds, the slim volume provides an richly opaque narrative of one of the West’s most recognizable (and least understood) architectural idioms. While the Talbott’s thesis remains illusive, we watch on as the four horsemen of history, identity, style, and building technology emerge from the darkened plumes of primeval Europe to spread across the suburbs of America. Eschewing effective authorship, Talbott plies myth and meaninglessness to implicitly position Tudoresque as the Neofolk of domestic architecture in this curiously illustrated offering from Familars Strangers.

40 pages
4.75 x 6.75 inches