book.id,book.ts,book.title,book.isbn_13,book.contributor,book.description,book.table_of_contents,book.review_quote,book.pages,book.dimensions,book.publication_date,book.publisher,book.publication_city_country,book.language,book.edition_statement,book.illustrations_note,book.isbn_10,book.bestsellers_rank,book.rating_value,book.sale_price,book.list_price,book.about_author,book.format,book.imprint,book.bnid,book.format_2,book.file_size
105,"2018-01-11 01:07:18",Eames,9783836560214,"Gloria Koenig","Nothing says modernist perfection like an Eames design. Though they are best known to the general public for their furniture, the husband and wife duo of Charles and Ray Eames (1907-78 and 1912-88, respectively) were also forerunners in the fields of architecture, industrial design, photography, and film. This book covers all the aspects of their illustrious career, from the earliest furniture experiments and molded plywood designs to the Case Study Houses to their work for Herman Miller and films such as the seminal short. Powers of Ten.",,,96,"215.9 x 261.62 x 15.24mm | 589.67g","21 Jul 2015","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany",English,,,3836560216,"8,255",4.02,US$17.08,,,Hardback,,,,
106,"2018-01-11 01:07:24","Geoffrey Bawa",9780500341872,"David Robson","Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, born 1919, fused local construction traditions with modern forms and sensibility to create harmonious and pleasurable buildings that have become legendary in the region and influential around the world. This volume is a documentation and appreciation of the man and his work. Part One contains three chapters on Bawa's early life, the history of Sri Lankan architecture and Bawa's first firm, which he eventually took over. Part Two, comprising four chapters, is the heart of the book and presents all Bawa's major works by project, through extensive texts, drawings and plans. Part Three features two chapters: a long, single chapter devoted to Bawa's two life-long projects - his house in Colombo and his estate Lunuganga - which came to encapsulate his entire oeuvre; and a postscript which sums up the work and describes its relevance to contemporary architectural practice.",,,278,"268 x 288 x 30mm | 1,959.51g","17 Nov 2002","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"500 illustrations, (250 colour ) maps, chronology, glossary, index",0500341877,"43,755",4.58,US$63.83,US$80.00,"David Robson is Professor of Architecture in the University of Brighton and a visiting professor in the National University of Singapore. He first met Geoffrey Bawa when he was teaching in Colombo in the early 1970s. Robson later worked as an advisor to the Sri Lankan Government and was involved in the famous Hundred Thousand Houses Programme.",Hardback,,,,
107,"2018-01-11 01:07:31","A Place of My Own",9780143114741,"Michael Pollan","A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work ""A room of one's own: Is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn't turned those soft words over until they'd assumed a habitable shape?"" When Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. In A Place of My Own, he turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property--a place in which he hoped to read, write, and daydream, built with his own two unhandy hands. Michael Pollan's unmatched ability to draw lines of connection between our everyday experiences--whether eating, gardening, or building--and the natural world has been the basis for the popular success of his many works of nonfiction, including the genre-defining bestsellers The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food. With this updated edition of his earlier book A Place of My Own, readers can revisit the inspired, intelligent, and often hilarious story of Pollan's realization of a room of his own--a small, wooden hut, his ""shelter for daydreams""--built with his admittedly unhandy hands. Inspired by both Thoreau and Mr. Blandings, A Place of My Own not only works to convey the history and meaning of all human building, it also marks the connections between our bodies, our minds, and the natural world.","A Place of My Own

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: A Room of One's Own
Chapter 2: The Site
Chapter 3: On Paper
Chapter 4: Footings
Chapter 5: Framing
Chapter 6: The Roof
Chapter 7: Windows
Chapter 8: Finish Work

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Index","""A glorious piece of prose . . . Pollan leads readers on his adventure with humor and grace."" -Chicago Tribune ""A captivating and informative adventure."" -John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ""An utterly terrific book . . . an inspired meditation on the complex relationship between space, the human body, and the human spirit."" -Francine du Plessix Gray",320,"132.08 x 205.74 x 22.86mm | 294.83g","01 Jan 2009","Penguin Putnam Inc","New York, NY, United States",English,Reprint,,0143114743,"102,839",3.81,US$17.05,US$18.00,"Michael Pollan, recently featured on Netflix in the four-part series Cooked, is the author of seven previous books, including Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to the New York Times Magazine, he also teaches writing at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, TIME magazine named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.",Paperback,"Penguin USA",,,
108,"2018-01-11 01:07:39","Rare Bird of Fashion",9780500513446,"Eric Boman","A true original: this lavishly photographed book captures the style of American fashion maverick Iris Apfel, who, over the past forty years, has cultivated a personal chic that is exuberantly idiosyncratic. Combining genres, colours, textures and patterns without regard to period, provenance or, ultimately, aesthetic convention, she is one of the few style icons of our time. Here, in over ninety sumptuous colour plates, Eric Boman shows off a selection of her extraordinary outfits on wittily posed mannequins.","Preface by Harold Koda; A Word or Two by Iris Apfel; 1. 'I'm not a lady who lunches'; 2. 'In the right tonality, I never met a colour I didn't like'; 3. 'Mama said take one off - I say add one on'; 4. 'I was born with a Souk Sense; 5. 'Don't try this at home'.",,160,"232 x 308 x 28mm | 1,279.12g","01 Apr 2007","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"169 illustrations, 149 in colour",0500513449,"89,026",4.64,US$37.77,US$65.00,"Eric Boman is a highly acclaimed fashion photographer, whose work has featured in many publications, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, The World of Interiors and House & Garden. Among his books his Blahnik by Boman, published by Thames & Hudson in 2005.",Hardback,,,,
109,"2018-01-11 01:07:40","Tom Kundig Houses 2: 2",9781616890407,"Tom Kundig","Our 2006 monograph Tom Kundig: Houses was an instant critical and commercial success. Over the past five years, Seattle-based Kundig has continued his meteoric rise, collecting numerous awards, including the 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for Architecture Design. Tom Kundig: Houses 2 features seventeen residential projects, ranging from a five hundred-square-foot cabin in the woods to a house carved into and built out of solid rock. In his new work, Kundig continues to strike a balance between raw and refined and modern and warm, creating inviting spaces with a strong sense of place. The houses seamlessly incorporate his signature inventive details, rich materials, and stunning sites from the majestic Northwestern forest to the severe high desert.",,"Manipulating and combining familiar cultural and physical material, [Kundig] makes buildings that do unfamiliar, wonderful things... This volume joins Tom Kundig: Houses (2008) as testament to an architectural original at the height of his formidable powers. --Residential Architecture",256,"243.84 x 304.8 x 27.94mm | 1,587.57g","07 Sep 2011","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,,"250 colour illustrations",1616890401,"61,203",4.6,US$50.17,US$54.99,"Tom Kundig is a Seattle-based architect and a principal of Olson Kundig Architects. In 2008, he received a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. In 2007, he was recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Academy Award in Architecture.",Hardback,,,,
111,"2018-01-11 01:07:49","Tom Kundig",9781568986050,"Dung Ngo","Tom Kundig is a Seattle-based architect with Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen whose work is inspired by both industrial structures and the vibrant craft cultures that are fostered there. His buildings uniquely meld industrial sensibilities and materials such as corten steel and concrete with an intuitive understanding of scale, from the overall site to lovingly wrought, intimate details. ""Tom Kundig: Houses"" presents five projects in depth, from the early conceptual sketches to final stunning details. Kundig's houses reflect a sustained and active collaborative process between designer, craftsmen, and owners. All located in Washington State, these houses not only convey the keen eye of the architect's inspiration but also the awe-inspiring backdrop of the Pacific Northwest.",,,176,"200 x 254 x 16mm | 739.35g","09 Nov 2006","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,,"263 illus., 160 in color.",156898605X,"54,225",4.54,US$29.39,US$40.01,"Dung Ngo is an independent editor and writer and the principal of Ngo Studio in San Francisco. He is the author of Bent Ply (PAP, 2003)",Hardback,,,,
112,"2018-01-11 01:07:58","Frank Lloyd Wright",9780847827367,"Alan Hess","Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the best-known private house in the history of the world. In fact, Wright's houses-from his Prairie style Robie House (1906) in Chicago, to the Storer (1923) and Freeman (1923) houses in Los Angeles, and Taliesen West (1937) in the Arizona desert-are all touchstones of modern architecture. For the first time, all 289 extant houses are shown here in exquisite color photographs. Along with Weintraub's stunning photos and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by several leading Wright scholars. Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses is an event of great importance and a major contribution to the literature on this titan of modern architecture.",,,480,"287.02 x 289.56 x 50.8mm | 3,787.48g","01 Nov 2005","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,,"500 colour illustrations",0847827364,"78,047",4.28,,,"Alan Weintraub is an architectural photographer whose recent work includes Bay Area Style. Alan Hess is an architectural writer and author of Rizzoli's The Architecture of John Lautner. Kenneth Frampton is Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Thomas S. Hines is Professor of History and Architecture at UCLA. Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer is Director of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Kathryn Smith is an architecture historian, preservation consultant, author and lecturer. Margo Stipe is Registrar of the Frank Lloyd Wright Archives at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. Eric Lloyd Wright, great grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright, is an architect based in California.",Hardback,,,,
113,"2018-01-11 01:08:07","Case Study Houses",9783836535601,"Elizabeth A T Smith","Modernism to the masses: Pioneering designs for affordable postwar homesThe Case Study House program (1945 1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern homes that could be both easily replicated and readily affordable to the average American.Concentrated on the Los Angeles area, the Case Study Houses included 36 model homes commissioned from such major architects of the day as Richard Neutra, Raphael Soriano, Craig Ellwood, Charles and Ray Eames, Pierre Koenig, Eero Saarinen, A. Quincy Jones, and Ralph Rapson. Their criteria included using, as far as is practicable, many war-born techniques and materials best suited to the expression of man s life in the modern world. The results of the program would redefine the modern home and extend influence not only across the United States but around the world. This compact guide includes all of the Case Study Houses with over 150 photos and plans, as well as a map showing locations of all sites, including those that no longer exist.About the series: Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Architecture series features: an introduction to the life and work of the architect the major works in chronological order information about the clients, architectural preconditions as well as construction problems and resolutions a list of all the selected works and a map indicating the locations of the best and most famous buildings approximately 120 illustrations (photographs, sketches, drafts and plans)""",,,96,"205.74 x 261.62 x 12.7mm | 580.6g","04 Mar 2016","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany",English,,"Illustrations, unspecified",3836535602,"3,366",4.29,US$16.97,,,Hardback,,,,
114,"2018-01-11 01:08:18","Carlo Scarpa",9780847829118,"Guido Beltramini","Carlo Scarpa was a virtuoso of light, a master of detail, and a connoisseur of materials. Today he is known as a 20th-century master of architecture. To mark the first centenary of Scarpa's birth, all his works are presented here for the first time. The 250 illustrations cover all 58 of his structures, including the Castelvecchio Museum (Verona), the Olivetti showroom (Venice), and the Brion Tomb in San Vito d'Altivole (Treviso), as well as his important glass designs. The book includes essays by leading architects and architecture critics, offering an extensive overview of Scarpa's life as well as interpretations of his architecture. Known as the ""Frank Lloyd Wright of Italy,"" Scarpa's decorative style has become a model for architects wishing to revive craft and luscious materials in the contemporary manner.",,"-Carlo Scarpa... combined a sensitivity to traditional materials and craftsmanship with an abstract sensibility. Scarpa's work in Venice, Verona, and surrounding towns uses an evocative layering of walls, spaces, geometric ornamentation, and finely crafted stone and metal to evoke an image of modernity where the human hand is aided rather than replaced by the machine... All offer a brilliant vision of cultural transformation that is worth seeking out as a complement, or antidote, to the usual trek from ancient monument to ancient monument.- The Boston Phoenix -The 20th Century Italian master Carlo Scarpa (1906-1978) emerged from a Venetian tradition that merged art, craft, intellect, and, especially in his case, architecture...Photos in this book make clear that Scarpa's works may need reviving, lest they too pass away.- Architecture -For this chronological presentation of Scarpa's five-decade career, spanning 1932 to 1978, the photographers visited all 58 of the Italian master's completed structures (all but one in Italy), creating a gorgeous set of images in the process. Scarpa was often called upon to integrate his architecture into and around existing historic buildings, and the delicacy of these interventions still stand out.- Metropolis Magazine",318,"243.8 x 292.1 x 30.5mm | 2,041.19g","01 Jan 2018","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,,"250 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS",0847829111,"51,302",4.47,,,"Guido Beltramini, director of the Centro Internazionale di Studi de Architettura has curated the exhibitions for Carlo Scarpa in Verona and Vicenza. Italo Zannier is a leading international photography expert and holds the chair of the history of photography at Venice University. He documented many of Scarpa's works when he worked as a professional photographer.",Hardback,,,,
115,"2018-01-11 01:08:20","Vivienne Westwood",9781851774050,"Claire Wilcox","Over 300 illustrations convey the dynamism and impact of her ideas from the early punk years to her more recent collections, presenting imaginative and stunning creations that have been a major influence on fashion, music and art since the 1970s. Outfits worn by the Sex Pistols contrast with more recent creations for Tracey Emin and Cameron Diaz, demonstrating why Westwood is the most talked-about designer in Britain. Her enormous cult following in Japan, Europe, Australia and the USA gives the book instant international appeal, while Claire Wilcox's authoritative text sheds light on the sources of inspiration and working practices of this fascinating and dedicated designer.",,"'A delight for any followers of fashion' The Daily Express. 'This fabulous book serves as an informative and colourful look at the hugely influential designer's life and work' OK! 'A fascinating study of Vivienne's illustrious career' Hello! ***** (Westwood) truly is the Grand Dame of British fashion. And this book is a fitting celebration of that' Heat. '***** Drooling matter for all fashionistas' New Woman. 'Lavish ... colour-drenched, mirror-glossy, and snapped by the likes of Mario Testino and Annie Leibovitz' You Magazine, Mail on Sunday.",224,"246.38 x 281.94 x 5.08mm | 1,179.33g","01 Oct 2005","V & A Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,repr.,"387 illustrations, (367 colour )",185177405X,"69,299",4.35,,,"Claire Wilcox is a leading expert on contemporary fashion. She curated the highly successful V&A exhibitions Vivienne Westwood (V&A 2004) which is now touring to Australia, China and Germany, Radical Fashion (V&A 2001) and The Art and Craft of Gianni Versace (V&A 2002) and edited the accompanying books. She is the author of Bags (V&A 1999) and Modern Fashion in Detail (with Valerie Mendes, V&A 1998).",Paperback,"V & A Publications",,,
117,"2018-01-11 01:08:31","Hadid. Complete works 1979-2013",9783836542838,"Philip Jodidio","Building the future now. This is the iconic work of a singular architect. Zaha Hadid is a wildly controversial architect whose work remained largely unbuilt for years, despite awards and critical acclaim. Yet in the past decade, Hadid has risen to fame and completed numerous structures like the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the Glasgow Riverside Museum, and the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan. With her audacious, futuristic designs, Hadid now ranks among the elite of world architecture. Born in Baghdad and educated in London, where her practice is based, Hadid has designed radical architecture for over 30 years. This massive TASCHEN monograph, now available in a specially updated and more accessible edition, covers her complete works to date. The New National Stadium of Japan-venue of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London are both published for the first time. This volume shows the evolution of Hadid's career - including buildings and furniture and interior designs - with in-depth texts, spectacular photos, and her own drawings.",,,612,"240 x 302 x 54mm | 3,179.95g","15 Dec 2013","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany","English, French, German","New edition",,3836542838,"10,641",4.62,US$64.53,,,Hardback,,,,
118,"2018-01-11 01:08:34","Mies van der Rohe",9783836560429,"Peter Gössel","Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture, and creator of the Barcelona Pavilion (1929), the Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois (1945-1951) and the Seagram Building in New York (1954-1958). Famed for his motto ""less is more,"" Mies sought a refined purity in architectural expression that was missing from the vocabulary of his Bauhaus peers. He aimed to build for those of modest income while also building economically and sustainably, both in technical and esthetic terms; the use of industrial materials such as steel and glass were the foundation of this approach. Though his stark forms and modern materials provoked some criticism, over the years many have tried - most unsuccessfully-to copy his original and elegant style. This book explores more than 20 of his projects between 1906 and 1967, from his early work around Berlin to his most important American buildings.",,,96,"210 x 260 x 12.7mm | 544.31g","29 Oct 2015","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany",English,,,3836560429,"10,696",4.1,US$16.51,,,Hardback,,,,
119,"2018-01-11 01:08:39","Tadao Ando: Complete Works 1975-2014",9783836553940,"Philip Jodidio","The Tadao touch. Ando's complete works to date 1975-2014. Philippe Starck describes him as a ""mystic in a country which is no longer mystic."" Philip Drew calls his buildings ""land art"" as they ""struggle to emerge from the earth."" He is the only architect to have won the discipline's four most prestigious prizes: the Pritzker, Carlsberg, Praemium Imperiale, and Kyoto Prize. His name is Tadao Ando, and he is one of the greatest living architects. Combining influences from Japanese tradition with the best of Modernism, Ando has developed a completely unique building aesthetic that makes use of concrete, wood, water, light, space, and nature in a way that has never been witnessed in architecture. His designs include award-winning private homes, churches, museums, apartment complexes, and cultural spaces throughout Japan, as well as in France, Italy, Spain, and the USA. This book, created at the height of Ando's illustrious career, and thoroughly updated for this new 2014 edition, presents his complete works to date.",,,720,"238 x 298 x 52mm | 3,359.95g","25 Oct 2014","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany","English, French, German","Aktualis. Aufl.",,3836553945,"7,490",4.66,US$65.51,,,Hardback,,,,
120,"2018-01-11 01:08:46","The Lonely City",9781250039576,"Olivia Laing","Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism #1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub A dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism on the subject of loneliness, told through the lives of iconic artists, by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring. When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her midthirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by the most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to David Wojnarowicz's AIDS activism, Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed. Humane, provocative, and moving, The Lonely City is a celebration of a strange and lovely state, adrift from the larger continent of human experience, but intrinsic to the very act of being alive.",,"""A beautiful meander of a book""--Hanya Yanagihara, The New Yorker ""Olivia Laing, in her new book, The Lonely City, picks up the topic of painful urban isolation and sets it down in many smart and oddly consoling places. She makes the topic her own . . . Perhaps the best praise I can give this book is to concur with Ms. Laing's dedication: 'If you're lonely, this one's for you.'""--Dwight Garner, The New York Times ""This book serves as both provocation and comfort, a secular prayer for those who are alone--meaning all of us.""--The New York Times Book Review ""One of the finest writers of the new non-fiction . . . compelling and original.""--Harper's Bazaar ""An uncommonly observant hybrid of memoir, history and cultural criticism . . . a book of extraordinary compassion and insight.""--San Francisco Chronicle ""Laing is an astute and consistently surprising culture critic who deeply identifies with her subjects' vulnerabilities . . . absolutely one of a kind.""--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air ""It's not easy to pull off switching between criticism and confession--and like Echo Spring, The Lonely City is an impressive and beguiling combination of autobiography and biography, a balancing act that Laing effortlessly performs. Her gift as a critic is her ability to imaginatively sympathize with her subject in a way that allows the art and life of the artist to go on radiating meaning after the book is closed.""--Elle ""A lovely thing. Exceptionally skillful at changing gears, Ms. Laing moves fluently between memoir, biography (not just of her principal cast but of a large supporting one), art criticism and the fruits of her immersion in 'loneliness studies' . . . She writes about Darger and the rest with insight and empathy and about herself with a refreshing lack of exhibitionism . . . Every page of The Lonely City exudes a disarming, deep-down fondness for humanity.""--The Wall Street Journal ""Laing's prose is elegant and concise, with a breath of Joan Didion . . . In its interdisciplinary scope and mix of culture, theory, and memoir, The Lonely City brings to mind other nonfiction hits of recent years, books like Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts or Leslie Jamison's The Empathy Exams.""--The Millions ""The Lonely City bristles with heart-piercing wisdom... It's a ghostly blueprint of urban loneliness--an emotion that Laing calls 'a city in itself'--that reminds us how loneliness can sometimes bring us together.""--Jason Heller, NPR ""Laing's meditation gradually gathers force into a manifesto, taking aim at the assumption of simple, unknowable 'mental illness' to explain the life and creative work of the outsider artist Henry Darger or of Solanas--or of Warhol, for that matte...Without glamorizing either loneliness or the urban decay of New York in the '70s, The Lonely City builds an impassioned case for difficulty and difference, for social rebellion and the unpredictable artistic richness that can result.""--The Washington Post ""Laing, who used group biography to examine the connections between alcoholism and literature in The Trip to Echo Spring, here performs an almost magical trick: Reminding us of how it feels to be lonely, this book gently affirms our connectedness.""--The Boston Globe ""Laing is always circling back toward a piercingly relevant observation. And, oh, those observations! . . . Laing is a great critic, not least because she understands that art can and often does manifest multiple conflicting meanings and desires at once.""--Laura Miller, Slate ""Laing writes with a compassion and curiosity rarely seen in any genre . . . Although I read The Lonely City in the same urban spaces that usually impart a familiar loneliness--loud cafes, quiet apartments and slow trains choked with strangers--I felt different while reading it . . . Something surprising happened, something Laing most likely intended""--The Rumpus ""A singular, fiercely candid and rare book.""--The Buffalo News ""[An] acute, nervy and personal investigation into urban solitude . . . [Laing] writes with lyrical clarity, empathy, and a knack for taking a wandering, edgy path, stretching themes (and genres), while never losing an underlying urgency . . . A group biography all in one, which takes a difficult, almost taboo, subject and deftly turns it over anew.""--New Statesman ""Luminously wise and deeply compassionate, The Lonely City is a fierce and essential work. Laing is a masterful biographer, memoirist and critic. Fearlessly tracing the roots of loneliness, its forbidding consequences, and its complicated and beautiful relationship with art, it is powerful, poignant and magical. Reading it made my heart ache yet filled me with hope for the world.""--Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk ""[An] imaginative and poignant quest . . . Through her ardent research, empathetic response, original thought, courageous candor, and exquisite language, Laing joins the ever-growing pool of writers--among them Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hope Jahren, Jhumpa Lahiri, Leslie Jamison, Helen Macdonald, Sally Mann, Patti Smith, Tracy K. Smith, Edmund de Waal, and Terry Tempest Williams--who are transforming memoir into a daring and dynamic literary form of discovery that laces the stories of individuals into the continuum of humanity and the larger web of life on Earth to provocative and transforming effect.""--Booklist (starred review) ""By focusing on four artists . . . Laing's writing becomes expansive, exploring their biographies, sharing art analysis, and weaving in observations from periods of desolation that was at times 'cold as ice and clear as glass.' She invents new ways to consider how isolation plays into art or even the Internet (which turns her into an obsessed teenager, albeit one who calls the screen her 'cathected silver lover'). For once, loneliness becomes a place worth lingering.""--Publishers Weekly ""[An] absorbing melding of memoir, biography, art essay, and philosophical meditation . . . [An] illuminating, enriching book.""--Kirkus Reviews ""A remarkable combination of personal mediation and psychological and artistic inquiry, The Lonely City is always superbly written, fascinating and often sharply moving. Ultimately the book has a paradoxical effect: at the same time as it makes one aware of one's own inescapable solitude, it leaves one feeling less alone.""--Adam Foulds, author of In the Wolf's Mouth ""An extraordinary more-than-memoir; a sort of memoir-plus-plus, partway between Helen MacDonald's H Is for Hawk and the diary of Virginia Woolf; a lyrical account of wading through a period of self-expatriation, both physical and psychological, in which Laing paints an intimate portrait of loneliness.... TheLonely City is a layered and endlessly rewarding book, among the finest I have ever read."" - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings",315,"150 x 211 x 30mm | 431g","01 Mar 2016","Picador USA","New York",English,,"Illustrations, unspecified",1250039576,"97,895",3.88,US$23.24,US$26.01,"OLIVIA LAING is a writer and critic. Her first book, To the River, was published by Canongate in the U.K. to wide acclaim and shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. She has been the deputy books editor of the Observer, and writes for the Guardian, New Statesman, and Granta, among other publications. She is a MacDowell and Yaddo Fellow, and the 2014 Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her critically acclaimed book, The Trip to Echo Spring: On Writers and Drinking, is published by Picador.",Hardback,,,,
122,"2018-01-11 01:08:54","The Death and Life of Great American Cities",9780679741954,"Jane Jacobs","A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.",,"""The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense.""--Harrison Salisbury, The New York Times""One of the most remarkable books ever written about the city... a primary work. The research apparatus is not pretentious--it is the eye and the heart--but it has given us a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city.""--William H. Whyte, author of The Organization Man",458,"129.54 x 200.66 x 27.94mm | 340.19g","01 Dec 1992","Random House USA Inc","New York, United States",English,"Vintage Books ed.",,067974195X,"5,529",4.31,US$17.05,,"Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of Cities, Systems of Survival, The Nature of Economies and Dark Age Ahead. She died in 2006.",Paperback,"Vintage Books",,,
123,"2018-01-11 01:09:04","A Burglar's Guide to the City",9780374117269,"Geoff Manaugh","At the heart of Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City is an unexpected and thrilling insight: the city as seen through the eyes of robbers. From experts on both sides of the law, readers learn to understand the city as an arena of possible tunnels and picked locks and architecture itself as an obstacle to be outwitted and second-guessed. From how to pick locks (and the tools required) to how to case a bank on the edge of town, readers will learn to detect the vulnerabilities, blind spots, and unseen openings that surround us all the time. This simultaneously allows us to view the city from specific buildings and individual rooms to whole neighbourhoods through the privileged eyes of FBI investigating agents and security consultants, people dedicated both to solving and to preempting these attempts at devious entry. Full of absurd and marvelous stories of heists and capers, A Burglar's Guide to the City offers a kind of criminal X-ray of our built environment. Never again will readers enter a bank without imagining the vault geometry, or visit a museum without plotting ways to bring their favourite painting home with them.",,"This is a marvelous wonder-room of a thing, an intricate, deeply researched, and brilliantly written mad scientist s tour of crime and how it s bound to the world we ve built. Revealing, spectacular, and riveting. Warren Ellis, author of Gun Machine and The Planetary Omnibus This burglar s guide isn t for ordinary smash and grab burglars, it s for the rest of us who like to steal in, steal out, and get away with glorious dreams. A spectacularly fun read. Robert Krulwich, co-host of Radiolab Murphy s Law anything that can go wrong will go wrong is especially true for architecture. Geoff Manaugh s liaisons with burglars and bank robbers reveal unexplored niches and loopholes in our cities, and through the eyes of urban hackers we find new possibilities for reinterpreting the built environment. A Burglar s Guide to the City shows that architecture is too important to leave to just the architects. Bjarke Ingels, BIG Architects Who knew urban studies could be so riveting? Geoff Manaugh excels at finding new, illicit, and fresh angles on a subject as loved as it is overexposed the city. In his new book, elegant, perverse, sinuous supervillains maneuver and master the city like parkour champions. I see the TV series already. Paola Antonelli, MoMA Reading Geoff Manaugh is like donning night-vision goggles at the edge of a dark forest you are suddenly aware of, and alive to, a world that was always there but occluded. A Burglar s Guide to the City is a crackerjack intellectual caper. Tom Vanderbilt, New York Times bestselling author of You May Also Like and Traffic Despite its title, Geoff Manaugh's A Burglar's Guide to the City won't teach you how to break into houses. It won't help you outsmart wily cat burglars with ingenious home alarm systems, either. Instead, it explores something a lot weirder and more interesting: Manaugh argues that burglary is built into the fabric of cities and is an inevitable outgrowth of having architecture in the first place. Annalee Newitz, Los Angeles Times An exhilarating, perspective-shifting read. Patrick Lyons, VICE For years, Geoff Manaugh has entertained and fascinated us with his BLDGBLOG, and now he's even better at full-length, with A Burglar's Guide to the City, a multidisciplinary, eclectic, voraciously readable book that views architecture, built environments, and cities themselves through the lens of breaking-and-entering... Manaugh's work is characteristically far-ranging and eclectic, and always fascinating... Come for the true crime, stay for the education in architecture and urban planning. Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing Intriguing... a surprising and fascinating true-crime epic. BBC I cannot think of a more informed, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable tour guide through the historical and contemporary intersection of burglary and architecture than Geoff Manaugh. A Burglar s Guide to the City makes disparate connections seem obvious in hindsight, and my worldview is altered a little bit more, and far for the better, as a result. Sarah Weinman, Barnes & Noble Review Geoff Manaugh s A Burglar s Guide to the City gives the realm of architecture the kinetic thrills of a heist film. Alex Bozikovic, The Globe and Mail Architecture blogger Geoff Manaugh s fascinating book A Burglar s Guide to The City posits that our living and working spaces, no matter how seemingly secure, are proving grounds for small-time crooks and sophisticated criminals alike; a smart thief will calibrate his routine based on the way a specific structure is designed. Manaugh s book locates the spot where architecture and crime intersect. Marc Weingarten, The Guardian A compelling review of the ingenious ways that burglars negotiate the built environment and what we can learn from their infrastructural ingenuity. Robbie Gonzalez, Wired Smart, original... delirious with ideas... it s hard to argue with Manaugh s contention that burglary is a new science of the city, proceeding by way of shortcuts, splices, and wormholes. The Boston Globe A Burglar s Guide to the City is a masterpiece of mad ideas, pouring out one after another. The book is one of the most enjoyable volumes of the year. The Washington Free Beacon Manaugh turns the building world inside out in this fascinating view of the modern city as seen through the eyes of a potential burglar... Readers of this illuminating study will never look at the buildings and cities they live in the same way. Publishers Weekly """,304,"127 x 190 x 21mm | 228g","05 Apr 2016","Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc","New York, United States",English,,,0374117268,"18,003",3.32,US$12.21,US$16.00,"Geoff Manaugh is the founder of BLDGBLOG, one of the most popular architecture sites on the Web.",Paperback,,,,
125,"2018-01-11 01:09:16","Cities for People",9781597265737,"Jan Gehl","For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are lively, safe, sustainable, and healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast-growing cities of developing countries. A 'Toolbox', presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl's work around the globe.",,"""This book elaborates on many of Gehl's seminal ideas, examines some of the world's cities that have successfully improved over the last few decades, and states the challenges for the future. Many generations will lead happier lives and cities will be more competitive if their leaders heed his advice.""--Enrique Penalosa, former Mayor of Bogota, Colombia ""Jan Gehl continues to astonish us with his insight into what really makes cities work. He has a global reach in this book based on work he has done in Europe, Australia, and America with comparative data on how pedestrians use public spaces. The deep appeal is how quickly he has been able to assist some cities in turning their traffic-riddled streets into havens for people.""--Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Australia ""Jan Gehl is our greatest observer of urban quality and an indispensable philosopher of cities as solutions to the environmental and health crises that we face. With over half the world's population now in urban areas, the entire planet needs to learn the lessons he offers in Cities for People.""--Janette Sadik-Khan, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation",288,"187.96 x 256.54 x 20.32mm | 929.86g","06 Sep 2010","Island Press","Washington, United States",English,,"Illustrations (some col.)",159726573X,"8,247",4.32,US$54.74,US$54.99,"Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants. He is the author of Life Between Buildings and Public Spaces, Public Life. He has received numerous awards for his work and is widely credited with creating and renewing urban spaces in cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Melbourne, New York City, London, and many others. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.",Hardback,,,,
126,"2018-01-11 01:09:27","The Image of the City",9780262620017,"Kevin Lynch","The classic work on the evaluation of city form.What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -- imageability -- and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.",,"This small and readable book makes one of the most important modern contributions to large-scale design theory. -- David A. Crane * Journal of the American Institute of Planners * ...a readable, tautly organized, authoritative volume... * Architectural Forum *",208,"132.08 x 200.66 x 10.16mm | 226.8g","01 Jan 1960","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,Pr.,"w. 62 figs.",0262620014,"22,112",4.04,US$24.85,US$27.00,"Kevin Lynch (1918-1984) studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin and later obtained a Bachelor of City Planning degree from MIT. After a long and distinguished career on the faculty of the MIT School of Architecture and Urban Planning, he was named Professor Emeritus of City Planning.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,,
128,"2018-01-11 01:09:38","All the Buildings in New York",9780789324672,"James Gulliver Hancock","A charmingly illustrated journey through New York City, neighborhood by neighborhood. All the Buildings in New York is a love letter to New York City, told through James Gulliver Hancock's unique and charming drawings of the city's diverse architectural styles and cityscape. His buildings are colorful and chock full of fun and offbeat details, and this book is full of new discoveries as well as old chestnuts for anyone who loves the Big Apple. Organized by neighborhoods, the book features iconic New York buildings, such as the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and Flatiron Building, as well as the everyday buildings that make up New York City--the boutique shops in SoHo, timeless brownstones in Brooklyn, and rows of busy markets in Chinatown. New Yorkers and tourists alike will savor this one-of-a-kind volume that uniquely celebrates the energy and spirit of the city that never sleeps.",,"'The city is never as charming as when its edifices are captured by illustrator James Gulliver Hancock"" Manhattan Users Guide ""Sometimes it requires an out-of-town guest to get a native New Yorker to take a fresh look at all the architecture-landmark and otherwise- in our midst...His obsession might save you some shoe leather, or inspire you to burn some."" New York Spaces ""New Yorkers and tourists alike will savor this one-of-a-kind volume that uniquely celebrates the energy and spirit of the city that never sleeps."" Designers & Books ""A charmingly illustrated journey through New York City, neighborhood by neighborhood. All the Buildings in New York is a love letter to New York City, told through James Gulliver Hancock's unique and charming drawings of the city's diverse architectural styles and cityscape. His buildings are colorful and chock full of fun and offbeat details, and this book is full of new discoveries as well as old chestnuts for anyone who loves the Big Apple."" Grainedit.com""A Magnificent Obsession: New York"" Againstthegrain.com .."".illustrator James Gulliver Hancock's love letter to New York City."" Archdaily.com.."".with each new building, he immerses himself deeper into a city that he once saw through a tourist's eyes as a film set of pop-cultural references."" fastcodesign.com ""In his new book All The Buildings In New York, Hancock assembles his charming and extensive drawings of some of the Big Apple's most iconic buildings, as well as some more unfamiliar ones, into 64 pages of colorful illustrations. Described as a ""love letter"" to NYC, Hancock's drawings capture its diverse architectural styles, from the brownstones of Brooklyn to the Art Deco Chrysler building."" Architizer.com .."".takes you through New York's famed neighborhood with facts about the iconic buildings, and also shows the beauty of some of NYC's nameless, everyday structures."" Business Insider ""Pledging to draw every building there was, he says it was his way of ""remapping"" the city into a more personal cartography. The result is a colorful, charming collection of what Hancock has seen and captured...Hancock's illustrations aren't labored with detail, but do offer fine points that bring out what is special in each building he chooses to render...this book is a lovely way to embrace the tangible.."" North Adams Transcript",64,"196 x 250 x 18mm | 519.99g","04 Jul 2014","UNIVERSE PUBLISHING","New York, United States",English,,"60 colour illustrations",0789324679,"26,544",4.21,US$22.60,,"James Gulliver Hancock is an artist and illustrator. His work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and he has worked with a wide variety of high-profile clients, including Coca-Cola, the New York Times, and Herman Miller Furniture. He chronicles his attempt to draw every single building in New York City at the popular blog ""All the Buildings in New York.""",Hardback,,,,
130,"2018-01-11 01:09:46","The Death and Life of Great American Cities",9780679644330,"Jane Jacobs","Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book's original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic. The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as ""perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments."" Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs's tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.",,"Refreshing, provocative, stimulating and exciting . . . It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense. ""The New York Times"""""" One of the most remarkable books ever written about the city . . . a ""primary"" work. The research apparatus is not pretentious it is the eye and the heart but it has given us a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city. William H. Whyte, author of ""City: Rediscovering the Center""""",598,"121.92 x 185.42 x 40.64mm | 635.03g","13 Sep 2011","Random House USA Inc","New York, United States",English,"50th Anniversary ed",,0679644334,"14,790",4.31,US$25.04,,"Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) was a writer and activist who championed new approaches to urban planning for more than forty years. Her 1961 treatise, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, became perhaps the most influential American text about the inner workings and failings of cities, inspiring generations of urban planners and activists. Her efforts to stop the building of downtown expressways and protect local neighborhoods invigorated community-based urban activism and helped end Parks Commissioner Robert Moses' reign of power in New York City. Jason Epstein is the recipient of many awards, including the National Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, and the Curtis Benjamin Award given by the American Association of Publishers for enriching the world of books. For many years he was editorial director of Random House. He is the author of Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future and Eating.",Hardback,"Modern Library Inc",,,
131,"2018-01-11 01:09:48",London,9780099422587,"Peter Ackroyd","Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is a biography rather than a history. It differs from other histories, too, in the range and diversity of its contents. Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is not a simple chronological record. There are chapters on the history of silence and the history of light, the history of childhood and the history of suicide, the history of Cockney speech and the history of drink. London is perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, and confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic has called 'our age's greatest London imagination.'",,"""It would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd's 'biography' of our capital is the book about London. It contains a lifetime of reading and research-but this huge book is light and airy and playful-[He] leads us on a journey both historical and geographical, but also imaginative. Every street, alley and courtyard has a story, and Ackroyd brings it to life for us - marvellous"" -- A N Wilson * Daily Mail * ""Nothing can quite match the huge strange echo chamber of life-stories, folktales, and urban myths conjured up in Peter Ackroyd's epic vision of his native city. Sparkling, witty scholarship is constantly transformed into smoky mystical street-history, with dark hypnotic meditations on fog, fire, sewage, suicide and civic resurrection"" -- Richard Holmes * Daily Telegraph * ""Ackroyd is the most effortless guide. You wander by his side through the streets of the old city, savouring its bustle, colours and its smells, the stink of living. This is much more than history; it is a tapestry of inspiration and love. You will not find a better, more visionary book about a place we take for granted"" * Observer * ""It's this decade's finest work of non-fiction"" -- Jude Rogers * The Word * ""[London] may be several years old but it remains one of the leading narratives as he cleverly weaves through centuries of history to reveal to us the hundreds of different cities within a city"" -- Fiona Hamilton * The Times *",848,"152 x 234 x 48mm | 879.99g","27 Nov 2001","Vintage Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"Zahlr., tls. farb. Fotos, Abb. u. Pl.",0099422581,"26,590",3.96,US$31.05,,"Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.",Paperback,VINTAGE,,,
132,"2018-01-11 01:09:56","Learning from Las Vegas",9780262720069,"Robert Venturi","Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of ""common"" people and less immodest in their erections of ""heroic,"" self-aggrandizing monuments.This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, ""Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed,"" a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.",,"...these studies are brilliant...the kind of art history and theory that is rarely produced. -- Ada Louis Huxtable * The New York Times * ...professionally informed, competitively astute, and perversely brilliant... * The Yale Review * ...a brilliant document of the times...a work which uses history knowledgeably, skillfully, and creatively: a rarity. * Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians *",208,"149.86 x 223.52 x 12.7mm | 294.83g","05 Oct 2005","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,"revised edition","180 color illus., 358 b&w illus.",026272006X,"32,238",3.95,US$27.84,US$28.95,"Steven Izenour (1940-2001) was coauthor of Learning from Las Vegas (MIT Press, 1977) and a principal in the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc (VSBA). His most noted projects at VSBA include Philadelphia's Basco showroom, the George D. Widener Memorial Treehouse at the Philadelphia Zoo, the Camden Children's Garden, and the house he designed for his parents in Stony Creek, Connecticut.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,,
133,"2018-01-11 01:09:59","Walkable city",9780865477728,"Jeff Speck","Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive, and he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth arriving at. Making walkability happen is relatively easy and cheap; seeing exactly what needs to be done is the trick. In this essential book, Speck reveals the invisible workings of the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can all make the right choices for our communities. ""Insightful and passionately argued"" (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings), bursting with sharp observations and real-world examples, giving key insight into what urban planners actually do and how places can and do change, Walkable City lays out a practical, necessary, and eminently achievable vision of how to make our normal American cities great again.",,"""A delightful, insightful, irreverent work."" --The Christian Science Monitor""If Jane Jacobs invented a new urbanism, Walkable City is its perfect complement, a commonsense twenty-first-century user's manual."" --Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers""A recipe for vibrant street life."" --Los Angeles Times""Refreshing, lively and engaging . . . Walkable City isn't a harangue, it's a fun, readable and persuasive call to arms."" --Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)""Everyone interested in improving the quality of city life should read this book and heed its lessons."" --John Strawn, The Sunday Oregonian""Among the perennial flood of books on urban design in all its forms, this one stands out."" --John King, San Francisco Chronicle""Walkable City is an energetic, feisty book, one that never contents itself with polite generalities. Sometimes breezy and anecdotal yet always logical and amply researched, this is one of the best books to appear this year. Speck deserves the widest possible readership."" --Philip Langdon, Better! Cities & Towns""Walkable City . . . will change the way you see cities."" --Kaid Benfield, The Atlantic Cities""Jeff Speck, AICP, is one of the few practitioners and writers in the field who can make a 312-page book on a basic planning concept seem too short . . . For getting planning ideas into the thinking and the daily life of U.S. cities, this is the book."" --Planning magazine""Jeff Speck's brilliant and entertaining book reminds us that, in America, the exception could easily become the rule. Mayors, planners, and citizens need look no further for a powerful and achievable vision of how to make our ordinary cities great again."" --Joseph P. Riley, mayor of Charleston, S.C.""Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work. In Walkable City, he persuasively explains how to create rational urban spaces and improve quality of life by containing the number one vector of global environmental catastrophe: the automobile."" --David Owen, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Green Metropolis""Companionable and disarmingly candid, Jeff Speck perches on your shoulder and gets you to see your community with fresh eyes. He gradually builds a compelling case for walkability as the essential distillation of a vast trove of knowledge about urbanism and placemaking. The case he makes has you both nodding at the intuitive and seemingly obvious wisdom presented, and shaking your head at why those basic principles of fixing our cities have eluded us for so long."" --Harriet Tregoning, founder of the National Smart Growth Network""Jeff Speck understands a key fact about great cities, which is that their streets matter more than their buildings. And he understands a key fact about great streets, which is that the people who walk along them matter more than the cars that drive through them. Walkable City is an eloquent ode to the livable city and to the values behind it."" --Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic and author of Why Architecture Matters""With Walkable City, Jeff Speck demonstrates why he is among the most relevant and engaging writers on urban design today."" --Ron Bogle, president and CEO of the American Architectural Foundation""When I speak around the country, people ask me what is the first thing they should do to start their community on the path of smart growth. I will now say: Read Jeff Speck's Walkable City."" --Parris Glendening, governor of Maryland (1995-2003) and president of Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute""Truly a book that is so very needed, Walkable City moves theory into action. We now know we need to build walkable urban places for all sorts of economic, social, and environmental reasons. Jeff Speck shows how to do it in the same clear style we came to love in the classic Suburban Nation."" --Christopher B. Leinberger, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of The Option of Urbanism A delightful, insightful, irreverent work. The Christian Science Monitor If Jane Jacobs invented a new urbanism, Walkable City is its perfect complement, a commonsense twenty-first-century user's manual. Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers A recipe for vibrant street life. Los Angeles Times Refreshing, lively and engaging . . . Walkable City isn't a harangue, it's a fun, readable and persuasive call to arms. Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) Everyone interested in improving the quality of city life should read this book and heed its lessons. John Strawn, The Sunday Oregonian Among the perennial flood of books on urban design in all its forms, this one stands out. John King, San Francisco Chronicle Walkable City is an energetic, feisty book, one that never contents itself with polite generalities. Sometimes breezy and anecdotal yet always logical and amply researched, this is one of the best books to appear this year. Speck deserves the widest possible readership. Philip Langdon, Better! Cities & Towns Walkable City . . . will change the way you see cities. Kaid Benfield, The Atlantic Cities Jeff Speck, AICP, is one of the few practitioners and writers in the field who can make a 312-page book on a basic planning concept seem too short . . . For getting planning ideas into the thinking and the daily life of U.S. cities, this is the book. Planning magazine Jeff Speck's brilliant and entertaining book reminds us that, in America, the exception could easily become the rule. Mayors, planners, and citizens need look no further for a powerful and achievable vision of how to make our ordinary cities great again. Joseph P. Riley, mayor of Charleston, S.C. Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work. In Walkable City, he persuasively explains how to create rational urban spaces and improve quality of life by containing the number one vector of global environmental catastrophe: the automobile. David Owen, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Green Metropolis Companionable and disarmingly candid, Jeff Speck perches on your shoulder and gets you to see your community with fresh eyes. He gradually builds a compelling case for walkability as the essential distillation of a vast trove of knowledge about urbanism and placemaking. The case he makes has you both nodding at the intuitive and seemingly obvious wisdom presented, and shaking your head at why those basic principles of fixing our cities have eluded us for so long. Harriet Tregoning, founder of the National Smart Growth Network Jeff Speck understands a key fact about great cities, which is that their streets matter more than their buildings. And he understands a key fact about great streets, which is that the people who walk along them matter more than the cars that drive through them. Walkable City is an eloquent ode to the livable city and to the values behind it. Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic and author of Why Architecture Matters With Walkable City, Jeff Speck demonstrates why he is among the most relevant and engaging writers on urban design today. Ron Bogle, president and CEO of the American Architectural Foundation When I speak around the country, people ask me what is the first thing they should do to start their community on the path of smart growth. I will now say: Read Jeff Speck's Walkable City. Parris Glendening, governor of Maryland (1995 2003) and president of Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute Truly a book that is so very needed, Walkable City moves theory into action. We now know we need to build walkable urban places for all sorts of economic, social, and environmental reasons. Jeff Speck shows how to do it in the same clear style we came to love in the classic Suburban Nation. Christopher B. Leinberger, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of The Option of Urbanism"" A delightful, insightful, irreverent work. ""The Christian Science Monitor"" If Jane Jacobs invented a new urbanism, ""Walkable City ""is its perfect complement, a commonsense twenty-first-century user's manual. ""Kurt Andersen, host of Studio 360 and author of True Believers"" A recipe for vibrant street life. ""Los Angeles Times"" Refreshing, lively and engaging . . . ""Walkable City ""isn't a harangue, it's a fun, readable and persuasive call to arms. ""Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)"" Everyone interested in improving the quality of city life should read this book and heed its lessons. ""John Strawn, The Sunday Oregonian"" Among the perennial flood of books on urban design in all its forms, this one stands out. ""John King, San Francisco Chronicle"" ""Walkable City ""is an energetic, feisty book, one that never contents itself with polite generalities. Sometimes breezy and anecdotal yet always logical and amply researched, this is one of the best books to appear this year. Speck deserves the widest possible readership. ""Philip Langdon, Better! Cities & Towns"" ""Walkable Cit""y . . . will change the way you see cities. ""Kaid Benfield, The Atlantic Cities"" Jeff Speck, AICP, is one of the few practitioners and writers in the field who can make a 312-page book on a basic planning concept seem too short . . . For getting planning ideas into the thinking and the daily life of U.S. cities, this is the book. ""Planning magazine"" Jeff Speck's brilliant and entertaining book reminds us that, in America, the exception could easily become the rule. Mayors, planners, and citizens need look no further for a powerful and achievable vision of how to make our ordinary cities great again. ""Joseph P. Riley, mayor of Charleston, S.C."" Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work. In ""Walkable City,"" he persuasively explains how to create rational urban spaces and improve quality of life by containing the number one vector of global environmental catastrophe: the automobile. ""David Owen, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Green Metropolis"" Companionable and disarmingly candid, Jeff Speck perches on your shoulder and gets you to see your community with fresh eyes. He gradually builds a compelling case for walkability as the essential distillation of a vast trove of knowledge about urbanism and placemaking. The case he makes has you both nodding at the intuitive and seemingly obvious wisdom presented, and shaking your head at why those basic principles of fixing our cities have eluded us for so long. ""Harriet Tregoning, founder of the National Smart Growth Network"" Jeff Speck understands a key fact about great cities, which is that their streets matter more than their buildings. And he understands a key fact about great streets, which is that the people who walk along them matter more than the cars that drive through them. ""Walkable City"" is an eloquent ode to the livable city and to the values behind it. ""Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic and author of Why Architecture Matters"" With ""Walkable City,"" Jeff Speck demonstrates why he is among the most relevant and engaging writers on urban design today. ""Ron Bogle, president and CEO of the American Architectural Foundation"" When I speak around the country, people ask me what is the first thing they should do to start their community on the path of smart growth. I will now say: Read Jeff Speck's ""Walkable City."" ""Parris Glendening, governor of Maryland (1995 2003) and president of Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute"" Truly a book that is so very needed, Walkable City moves theory into action. We now know we need to build walkable urban places for all sorts of economic, social, and environmental reasons. Jeff Speck shows how to do it in the same clear style we came to love in the classic ""Suburban Nation."" ""Christopher B. Leinberger, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of The Option of Urbanism"""" ""A delightful, insightful, irreverent work."" --""The Christian Science Monitor""""If Jane Jacobs invented a new urbanism, ""Walkable City ""is its perfect complement, a commonsense twenty-first-century user's manual."" --Kurt Andersen, host of ""Studio 360 ""and author of ""True Believers""""A recipe for vibrant street life."" --""Los Angeles Times""""Refreshing, lively and engaging . . . ""Walkable City ""isn't a harangue, it's a fun, readable and persuasive call to arms."" --Steven Litt, ""The Plain Dealer ""(Cleveland) ""Everyone interested in improving the quality of city life should read this book and heed its lessons."" --John Strawn, ""The Sunday Oregonian""""Among the perennial flood of books on urban design in all its forms, this one stands out."" --John King, ""San Francisco Chronicle""""""Walkable City ""is an energetic, feisty book, one that never contents itself with polite generalities. Sometimes breezy and anecdotal yet always logical and amply researched, this is one of the best books to appear this year. Speck deserves the widest possible readership."" --Philip Langdon, ""Better! Cities & Towns""""""Walkable Cit""y . . . will change the way you see cities."" --Kaid Benfield, ""The Atlantic Cities""""Jeff Speck, AICP, is one of the few practitioners and writers in the field who can make a 312-page book on a basic planning concept seem too short . . . For getting planning ideas into the thinking and the daily life of U.S. cities, this is the book."" --""Planning"" magazine ""Jeff Speck's brilliant and entertaining book reminds us that, in America, the exception could easily become the rule. Mayors, planners, and citizens need look no further for a powerful and achievable vision of how to make our ordinary cities great again."" --Joseph P. Riley, mayor of Charleston, S.C. ""Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work. In ""Walkable City,"" he persuasively explains how to create rational urban spaces and improve quality of life by containing the number one vector of global environmental catastrophe: the automobile."" --David Owen, staff writer at ""The New Yorker"" and author of ""Green Metropolis """"Companionable and disarmingly candid, Jeff Speck perches on your shoulder and gets you to see your community with fresh eyes. He gradually builds a compelling case for walkability as the essential distillation of a vast trove of knowledge about urbanism and placemaking. The case he makes has you both nodding at the intuitive and seemingly obvious wisdom presented, and shaking your head at why those basic principles of fixing our cities have eluded us for so long."" --Harriet Tregoning, founder of the National Smart Growth Network ""Jeff Speck understands a key fact about great cities, which is that their streets matter more than their buildings. And he understands a key fact about great streets, which is that the people who walk along them matter more than the cars that drive through them. ""Walkable City"" is an eloquent ode to the livable city and to the values behind it."" --Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic and author of ""Why Architecture Matters """"With ""Walkable City,"" Jeff Speck demonstrates why he is among the most relevant and engaging writers on urban design today."" --Ron Bogle, president and CEO of the American Architectural Foundation ""When I speak around the country, people ask me what is the first thing they should do to start their community on the path of smart growth. I will now say: Read Jeff Speck's ""Walkable City."""" --Parris Glendening, governor of Maryland (1995-2003) and president of Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute ""Truly a book that is so very needed, Walkable City moves theory into action. We now know we need to build walkable urban places for all sorts of economic, social, and environmental reasons. Jeff Speck shows how to do it in the same clear style we came to love in the classic ""Suburban Nation."""" --Christopher B. Leinberger, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of ""The Option of Urbanism"" ""Jeff Speck, AICP, is one of the few practitioners and writers in the field who can make a 312-page book on a basic planning concept seem too short . . . For getting planning ideas into the thinking and the daily life of U.S. cities, this is the book."" --""Planning"" magazine ""Jeff Speck's brilliant and entertaining book reminds us that, in America, the exception could easily become the rule. Mayors, planners, and citizens need look no further for a powerful and achievable vision of how to make our ordinary cities great again."" --Joseph P. Riley, mayor of Charleston, S.C. """"City planning"" and ""urban development"" are phrases almost guaranteed to bore and confuse regular people. Which is weird, given that cities are the least boring places on earth. Fortunately, Jeff Speck is a deeply knowledgeable, charming, and jargon-free visionary, a profoundly pragmatic person brimming with common sense everybody can use to improve their own lives as well as their towns and cities. If Jane Jacobs invented a new urbanism, ""Walkable City"" is its perfect complement, a commonsense twenty-first-century user's manual."" --Kurt Andersen, host of ""Studio 360"" and author of ""True Believers """"Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work. In ""Walkable City,"" he persuasively explains how to create rational urban spaces and improve quality of life by containing the number one vector of global environmental catastrophe: the automobile."" --David Owen, staff writer at ""The New Yorker"" and author of ""Green Metropolis """"Companionable and disarmingly candid, Jeff Speck perches on your shoulder and gets you to see your community with fresh eyes. He gradually builds a compelling case for walkability as the essential distillation of a vast trove of knowledge about urbanism and placemaking. The case he makes has you both nodding at the intuitive and seemingly obvious wisdom presented, and shaking your head at why those basic principlesn ""Jeff Speck's brilliant and entertaining book reminds us that, in America, the exception could easily become the rule. Mayors, planners, and citizens need look no further for a powerful and achievable vision of how to make our ordinary cities great again."" --Joseph P. Riley, mayor of Charleston, S.C. """"City planning"" and ""urban development"" are phrases almost guaranteed to bore and confuse regular people. Which is weird, given that cities are the least boring places on earth. Fortunately, Jeff Speck is a deeply knowledgeable, charming, and jargon-free visionary, a profoundly pragmatic person brimming with common sense everybody can use to improve their own lives as well as their towns and cities. If Jane Jacobs invented a new urbanism, ""Walkable City"" is its perfect complement, a commonsense twenty-first-century user's manual."" --Kurt Andersen, host of ""Studio 360"" and author of ""True Believers """"Cities are the future of the human race, and Jeff Speck knows how to make them work. In ""Walkable City,"" he persuasively explains how to create rational urban spaces and improve quality of life by containing the number one vector of global environmental catastrophe: the automobile."" --David Owen, staff writer at ""The New Yorker"" and author of ""Green Metropolis """"Companionable and disarmingly candid, Jeff Speck perches on your shoulder and gets you to see your community with fresh eyes. He gradually builds a compelling case for walkability as the essential distillation of a vast trove of knowledge about urbanism and placemaking. The case he makes has you both nodding at the intuitive and seemingly obvious wisdom presented, and shaking your head at why those basic principles of fixing our cities have eluded us for so long."" --Harriet Tregoning, founder of the National Smart Growth Network ""Jeff Speck understands a key fact about great cities, which is that their streets matter more than their buildings. And he understands a key fact about greato",320,"138 x 208 x 24mm | 240g","12 Nov 2013","North Point Press","Berkeley, California, United States",English,Reprint,,0865477728,"27,267",4.28,US$12.36,US$16.00,"Jeff Speck, coauthor of the landmark bestseller Suburban Nation, is a city planner who advocates for smart growth and sustainable design. As the former director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts, he oversaw the Mayors' Institute on City Design, where he worked with dozens of American mayors on their most pressing city planning challenges. He leads a design practice based in Washington, D.C.",Paperback,,,,
134,"2018-01-11 01:10:07","The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture",9780140513233,"John Fleming","Need a handbook to your architect's business or studies? Struggling with your latest DIY project? Interested in the art of architecture? This classic work, now in its fifth edition, covers every aspect of architecture and landscape architecture. Ranging from ancient times to contemporary trends, it adopts a truly international perspective, focussing on countries and cultures such as Coptic, Tibet and De Stijl. Without doubt, this is the standard work in the field. As reflected by its new title, 'The Penguin Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture' has now been expanded to include recent developments in the field of landscape architecture. Full account has been taken, too, of the huge range of building traditions around the world. The text has been completely reset and all the illustrations redrawn. 'Immensely useful, succinct and judicious...this is a book rich in fact and accumulated wisdom.' The Times Literary Supplement",,,656,"129.54 x 193.04 x 38.1mm | 430.91g","01 Mar 2000","Penguin Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"5th ed.","line drawings",014051323X,"106,302",3.88,US$20.72,,"Nikolaus Pevsner is best known as the author of many of the Buildings of England series and the editor of the Pelican History of Art and Architecture series. He died in 1983. Hugh Honour and John Fleming have collaborated on many books, includingthe Penguin Dictionary of Decorative Arts and A World History of Art. They live in Italy.",Paperback,,,,
135,"2018-01-11 01:10:11","The Architecture of the City",9780262680431,"Aldo Rossi","Aldo Rossi, a practicing architect and leader of the Italian architectural movement La Tendenza, is also one of the most influential theorists writing today. The Architecture of the City is his major work of architectural and urban theory. In part a protest against functionalism and the Modern Movement, in part an attempt to restore the craft of architecture to its position as the only valid object of architectural study, and in part an analysis of the rules and forms of the city's construction, the book has become immensely popular among architects and design students.",,"Written 17 years ago, at a time when the Italian student movement had just begun and interdisciplinary design methodologies enjoyed popularity, [ The Architecture of the City ] was one of the first major reassessments of the Modern Movement. In contrast to Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, appearing in the same year, Rossi's critique focuses not on the sterility of forms or the rejection of stylistic imagery in modern architecture, but rather, as the title suggests, on the neglect and destruction of the city, the repository of 'the collective memory of man.' Perhaps most important to Americans, who face a resurgence of idiosyncratic and highly personal designs, is Rossi's emphasis on the collective, the public realm. He reminds us that individual reputations and accomplishments are less important than our cities themselves. -- Mary McLeod * Design Book Review *",208,"200.66 x 248.92 x 10.16mm | 453.59g","09 Aug 2011","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,"Revised ed.","maps, plans",0262680432,"48,883",4,US$35.44,US$35.99,"Aldo Rossi was an Italian architect and architecture theorist and the author of The Architecture of the City (MIT Press, 1984) and other books. He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1990.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,,
136,"2018-01-11 01:10:22","New Treehouses of the World",9780810996328,"Pete Nelson","In the five years since the release of the international publishing success ""Treehouses of the World"", the community of treehouse builders has grown considerably and many more - and more intriguingly innovative - treehouses have been built around the world, from North America to Asia and many points in-between. As worldchanging and sustainable living issues become the most important challenges facing the post-millennial age, the positive power, ecological consciousness and good will that a simple treehouse represents couldn't come at a better time. Picking up where ""Treehouses of the World"" leaves off, ""New Treehouses of the World"" continues the journal-style travelogue of the world's leading treehouse designer and builder, Pete Nelson.From his fateful year-long sabbatical in Spain, where he decided to make treehouses his sole enterprise, to the founding of Treehouse Point near Seattle, Nelson documents the beginnings of this new journey alongside a bountifully illustrated record of his travels, discoveries and epiphanies. Opening with an introduction to the world of treehouses, the book quickly shifts to a discussion of state-of-the-art tree-connection technology and a detailed description of the building of a treehouse. Given new eyes with which to see this emerging phenomenon, the reader is then taken even further afield on a global tour of more than thirty-five innovative, contemporary treehouses and is treated to exclusive photographs and stories that document the world's most extraordinary arboreal architecture.",,,224,"193.04 x 289.56 x 30.48mm | 1,270.05g","01 May 2009",Abrams,"New York, United States",English,,"250 colour images",0810996324,"14,259",4.18,US$30.60,US$40.01,"Pete Nelson is an architect and general contractor who is at the forefront of treehouse revival and sustainable architecture. He has written several books, including Abrams' Treehouses of the World, and runs the world's leading treehouse building company, TreeHouse Workshop, in Seattle.",Hardback,"Harry N. Abrams, Inc.",,,
137,"2018-01-11 01:10:29","The French Country Garden",9780500285206,"Louisa Jones","In France today, the heritage of classic parterres and landscaped parks, of botanical enquiry and family kitchen gardens, provides an inspiration for fresh delights and creativity. Louisa Jones has been exploring this heritage ever since she acquired an old farmstead in southern France nearly 30 years ago. For this book, she invited the hugely talented French photographers Gilles Le Scanff and Joelle Caroline Mayer to join her on an odyssey that took them from Normandy to the Riviera, the Loire to the Pyrenees, to reveal the full extent of the Renaissance in French country gardens. Richly diverse, these gardens have been sensitively organised into six themes appealing to every taste. Features: highly fashionable Grandmothers; gardens combine fruits, herbs, flowers and vegetables in seemingly haphazard displays to offer nostalgic visions of cottage-style family life; gardens for the Five Senses, inspired by the medieval and Renaissance past, focuses on sensual stimulation; the Passion for Plants is exhibited in exotic, beautiful and novel planting schemes. Formal Fancies take the elegance of the classical parterre but endow it with contemporary wit and fantasy. Natures Ways emphasizes the protection of natural biotypes and regional landscapes. And Planetary Perspectives shows how French gardeners are giving their own creative gloss to worldwide exchanges of knowledge and resources.","Introduction: French Gardens Today; 1. French Country Gardens; 2. Celebration of the Senses; 3. A Passion for Plants; 4. Formal Fancies; 5. Nature's Ways; 6. Planetary Perspectives","""'Stunning... a beautiful and sensuous book' - Irish Homes""",176,"246.38 x 248.92 x 10.16mm | 861.82g","26 Jun 2006","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,Reprint,"236 colour illustrations",0500285209,"14,972",3.91,US$25.53,US$29.95,"Louisa Jones's lectures, articles and books are a synonym for style in the world of contemporary gardens and gardening. Her many books include Gardens of Provence, Kitchen Gardens of France and Saveurs du Potager. Gilles Le Scanff and Joelle Mayer have been photographing gardens for more than twenty years for books and magazines such as Mon Jardin, Mon Maison.",Paperback,,,,
138,"2018-01-11 01:10:40","The City in History",9780156180351,"Lewis Mumford","The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. ""One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century"" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.",,,657,"132.08 x 203.2 x 53.34mm | 566.99g","23 Oct 1968","Harcourt Brace International","Orlando, United States",English,,,0156180359,"41,453",4.09,US$24.37,US$30.00,,Paperback,,,,
139,"2018-01-11 01:10:43",Evergreen,9783899556735,Gestalten,"From rooftop gardens to flora-laden balconies, flowers and plants bestow warm grace to unconventional and indoor spaces. Private paradises nestled in the backyards of homes. Rooftops that act as community gardens. Edible patches of beauty hidden within city blocks. Evergreen shows the green aesthetic statement that allows city dwellers to bring nature back into the every day and quenches urban gardening desires. Living with plants is mutually beneficial. Beyond the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen, leaves, flowers, and stems bring a warm and individual charisma to any space. From interior decorations to citywide projects, Evergreen invites both community and individual to nurture their green thumb and create a horticultural paradise.",,"""The profiles of both professional and hobbyist plant lovers provide an engaging guide to productively getting one's hands dirty; herb gardens on fire escapes, greenhouses that double as living spaces, and community gardens atop roofs all awaken growing curiosities. From cactus farmers and florists to shop owners and activists, let Evergreen's cast of characters guide you in making and maintaining a green utopia and in quenching gardening longings."" -Best Design Books ""Evergreen: Living with Plants is a great book for both the professional designer, avid gardener with a healthy green-thumb, and the burgeoning hobbyist. It's the perfect guide for inspiring anyone with a love for nature, getting their hands in the soil, and spending some time with beauty in a garden they helped to create."" -Color Outside the Lines",256,"240 x 300 x 27.94mm | 1,723.65g","31 Oct 2016","Die Gestalten Verlag","Berlin, Germany",English,,,3899556739,"7,416",3.8,US$47.45,US$59.99,,Hardback,,,,
140,"2018-01-11 01:10:51","Nicole de Vesian Gardens",9782742797349,"Louisa Jones","After a career as a renowned fashion designer in Paris and New York, Nicole de Vesian (1916-1996) moved to Provence in the 1980s and, at the age of 70, began creating a series of superbly proportioned and innovative gardens. Classically French in form (even if devoid of symmetry), pared down without being austere and in profound harmony with the surrounding countryside, these green and grey tapestries quickly came to inspire gardeners and garden designers the world over. Indeed, few French gardens are as widely imitated as those of Vesian; as Louisa Jones writes, ""she had a feeling for space just as a musician has a good ear."" This monograph is the first devoted to Vesian's work, and offers testimonies, reflections and full-color views of her most celebrated creations, including her own celebrated garden, La Louve, in the hilltop village of Bonnieux.",,,152,"214 x 246 x 20mm | 799.99g","30 Apr 2012","Actes Sud","Arles, France",English,,"100 colour illustrations",2742797343,"18,348",4.71,US$47.23,US$49.95,,Hardback,,,,
141,"2018-01-11 01:10:52","Private Gardens of Paris",9782080202048,"Alexandra D'Arnoux","Lying behind the urban facades of Paris is a hidden landscape. Whether grandiose or miniscule, highly manicured or exuberantly untended, these fifty secret gardens are rarely seen by casual passersby. Traditional French-style gardens, such as those of Hubert de Givenchy, Kenzo, or Pierre Berge, are attached to private town houses, and their designs mirror the elegance and restraint of the classic dwellings. The late Yves Saint Laurent's romantic, picturesque kitchen garden reflects his taste for outdoor living. Exotic hideaways include giant tropical ferns and rare flowers, greenery surrounding a Russian datcha, and a Japanese zen garden, demonstrating an eclectic range of urban gardens and providing inspiration to the expert gardener and armchair enthusiast.",,,192,"194 x 244 x 24mm | 1,019.98g","07 Apr 2015","Editions Flammarion","Paris, France",English,,"200 colour illustrations",2080202049,"37,094",3.16,US$31.33,US$34.95,"Alexandra d'Arnoux was coeditor-in-chief of Vogue Decoration and Maison & Jardin and editor-in-chief of AD France. Bruno de Laubadere is a garden historian and author of several books on garden design and horticulture They coauthored Terraces and Roof Gardens of Paris and Gardens by the Sea. The late Gilles de Chabaneix was a world-renowned photographer who contributed to numerous books including the Way We Live series.",Hardback,FLAMMARION,,,
142,"2018-01-11 01:10:54","How to Study Public Life",9781610914239,"Jan Gehl","How do we accommodate a growing urban population in a way that is sustainable, equitable, and inviting? This question is becoming increasingly urgent as we face diminishing fossil-fuel resources and the effects of a changing climate while global cities continue to compete to be the most vibrant centres of culture, knowledge, and finance. Jan Gehl has been examining this question since the 1960s, when few urban designers or planners were thinking about designing cities for people. But given the unpredictable, complex and ephemeral nature of life in cities, how can we best design public infrastructure - vital to cities for getting for place to place, or staying in place - for human use? Studying city life and understanding the factors that encourage or discourage use is the key to designing inviting public space. In How to Study Public Life Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre draw from their combined experience of over 50 years to provide a history of public-life study as well as methods and tools necessary to recapture city life as an important planning dimension. This type of systematic study began in earnest in the 1960s, when several researchers and journalists on different continents criticized urban planning for having forgotten life in the city. City life studies provide knowledge about human behaviour in the built environment in an attempt to put it on an equal footing with knowledge about urban elements such as buildings and transport systems. Studies can be used as input in the decision-making process, as part of overall planning, or in designing individual projects such as streets, squares or parks. The original goal is still the goal today: to recapture city life as an important planning dimension. Anyone interested in improving city life will find inspiration, tools, and examples in this invaluable guide.",,"""Applying the principles of public life studies at the City of Melbourne has proven to be an invaluable tool for making our city more livable. How to Study Public Life is an essential tool-oriented book for all those striving to create better cities for people.""--Rob Adams, Director of City Design, City of Melbourne ""This important book is published at a time when the dynamics of urbanization dictate a better integration of urban activities, which Gehl has long shown how to achieve.""--Peter Bosselmann, Professor of Urban Design, University of California, Berkeley ""For decades, the public space, public life studies developed by Jan Gehl and his team have been a great inspiration for professionals, academics and city planners in all parts of the world. Now their secret tools are available to everyone in How to Study Public Life. It is just a matter now of getting out there and putting them to use.""--Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University, Australia",200,"215.9 x 259.08 x 15.24mm | 839.14g","25 Nov 2013","Island Press","Washington, United States",English,,"four-colour throughout: 30 figures, 5 tables, 80 photographs",1610914236,"52,467",4.15,US$41.01,,"Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants. He is the author of Life Between Buildings and Cities for People. He has received numerous awards for his work and is widely credited with creating and renewing urban spaces in cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Melbourne, New York City, London, and many others. Birgitte Bundesen Svarre holds an MA in modern culture from the University of Copenhagen and a PhD from the School of Architecture in Copenhagen. She is part of Gehl Institute, the division at Gehl Architects that works with research and communication of knowledge at workshops for city planners, politicians and others with interest in life in the cities - as well as suburbs, a topic she has specialised in. She is a guest lecturer at various universities.",Hardback,,,,
143,"2018-01-11 01:11:02","The Education of a Gardener",9781590172315,"Russell Page","Russell Page, one of the legendary gardeners and landscapers of the twentieth century, designed gardens great and small for clients throughout the world. His memoirs, born of a lifetime of sketching, designing, and working on site, are a mixture of engaging personal reminiscence, keen critical intelligence, and practical know-how. They are not only essential reading for today's gardeners, but a master's compelling reflection on the deep sources and informing principles of his art. The Education of a Gardener offers charming, sometimes pointed anecdotes about patrons, colleagues, and, of course, gardens, together with lucid advice for the gardener. Page discusses how to plan a garden that draws on the energies of the surrounding landscape, determine which plants will do best in which setting, plant for the seasons, handle color, and combine trees, shrubs, and water features to rich and enduring effect. To read The Education of a Gardener is to wander happily through a variety of gardens in the company of a wise, witty, and knowledgeable friend. It will provide pleasure and insight not only to the dedicated gardener, but to anyone with an interest in abiding questions of design and aesthetics, or who simply enjoys an unusually well-written and thoughtful book.",,"""Page was one of the 20th century's legendary landscape gardeners. This classic memoir, first published in 1962, is filled with charming anecdotes and timeless gardening advice."" -Library Journal ""A classic of garden literature."" --The Los Angeles Times ""Page is one of the most respected gardening experts in the world."" --The Washington Postl ""It is beyond dispute that Russell Page, an Englishman now in his 77th year, has designed more gardens for more people in more parts of the world than anyone in history...He has moreover had for many years an underground celebrity as a master of English prose, on the strength of his book The Education of a Gardener."" --The New York Times (John Russell) ""Russell Page was one of the most gifted landscape architects in history...Page's erudition also extended to writing, as this book demonstrates. Three hundred and sixty three pages of design advice can be reduced to this: Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder; it is a quality based on sound artistic and aesthetic principles. Applying those principles-now that's the hard part, even in Page, in his genius, makes it look easy."" --The Washington Post Book World ""One of the most eloquent of all horticultural testaments. --The Sunday Telegraph (London) ""Literary types will enjoy The Education of a Gardener by Russell Page...a landmark exposition, first published in 1962, of garden design principles by one of the 20th century's leading landscape designers."" --The Toronto Star ""Something of a classic, a manual on the art of the garden by a man who designed them for over 50 years, but also much more..."" --The Times (London) (Sean French) ""I never travel far without Russell Page's Education of a Gardener, one of the most thoughtful and civilized gardening books ever written, by a master designer."" --The Daily Telegraph (London) ""Russell Page was one of the great English landscape architects of this century...His book The Education of a Gardener remains, in my view, the best combined guide to planting and designing a garden ever written, with inspiration for every sort of gardener, wherever they are placed. The last chapter on his own dream garden is brilliant."" --The Independent (London) ""Whatever has happened to garden writing? By that I mean literature, books that one picks up in the same way that one would a novel or biography for a good read, confident of the quality of its prose...Going to my bookshelves, I pull down Russell Page's The Education of a Gardener or Vita Sackville-West's In Your Garden...Virtually no pictures in any of them. We recognize all of these as somehow belonging to a golden age of garden writing."" --The Times (London) (Roy Strong) ""Page had a great talent and a sensitivity not only to different types of flora and to different climates, but also to the architectural requirements of gardens, both large and small...Combining a painter's eye (his only formal training was in art) with a pragmatic and encyclopedic knowledge of horticulture, he produced gardens that were-are-extraordinarily lovely."" --New York Times (Witold Rybczynski) ""From garden design to individual plants, he invests everything with beauty and wonder."" --The Sunday Times (London) Russell Page, admittedly a bit of a mystic, is pretty much out there by himself with his verdant heart and green digits. -- Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener's Education Page has written an astonishingly beautiful book about his craft. -- Doris Lessing I reread this book every three years. It explores both the mechanic and aesthetic side of gardening, while also including solid information for an academic balance. -- Southern Accents",381,"127 x 200.66 x 22.86mm | 476.27g","03 Jul 2007","NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS","New York, NY, United Kingdom",English,Reprint,"Illustrations, unspecified",1590172310,"46,162",3.72,US$20.61,,"Russell Page (1906-1985) became a professional garden designer in 1928 after studying painting at the Slade School of Art in London and in Paris. In 1935 he entered into a brief partnership with the landscapist and architect Geoffrey Jellicoe. He designed a great variety of gardens throughout Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America, ranging from windowboxes and small cottage gardens to those meant for large estates, public parks, and housing developments for industrial workers. Among his best-known projects are the gardens at the PepsiCo headquarters, the courtyard of the Frick Collection, and the Festival Gardens at Battersea Park. Page was one of only three Englishmen to have received a medal from the French Academy of Architecture and was an Officer of the British Empire. Robin Lane Fox is a fellow at New College, Oxford, and the gardening correspondent for the Financial Times.",Paperback,,,,
144,"2018-01-11 01:11:04","Life Between Buildings",9781597268271,"Jahn Gehl","The first Danish language version of this book, published in 1971, was very much a protest against the functionalistic principles for planning cities and residential areas that prevailed during that period. The book carried an appeal to show concern for the people who were to move about between buildings, and it urged an understanding of the subtle, almost indefinable - but definite - qualities, which have always related to the interaction of people in public spaces, and it pointed to the life between buildings as a dimension of architecture that needs to be carefully treated. Now 40 years later, many architectural trends and ideologies have passed by over the years. These intervening years have also shown that the liveliness and liveability of cities and residential areas continues to be a important issue. The intensity in which fine public spaces are used at this point in time, as well as the greatly increased general interest in the quality of cities and their public spaces emphasises this point. The character of life between buildings changes with changes in any given social context, but the essential principles and quality criteria to be employed when working with life between buildings has proven to be remarkably constant. Though this work over the years has been updated and revised several times, this version bears little resemblance with the very early versions, however there was no reason to change the basic message: Take good care of the life between your buildings.",,"""Thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening""--Jane Jacobs .."".this is a book that is a great inspiration to me in my work, and I look upon it as one of the classics for all professional or amateur students of architecture and community building, regardless of their age and background, or how short or long their experience may be.""--Ralph Erskine ""from the foreword to Life Between Buildings "" ""Thoughtful, beautiful, and enlightening""--Jane Jacobs .""..this is a book that is a great inspiration to me in my work, and I look upon it as one of the classics for all professional or amateur students of architecture and community building, regardless of their age and background, or how short or long their experience may be.""--Ralph Erskine ""from the foreword to""Life Between Buildings"" """,216,"150 x 226 x 14mm | 258.55g","17 Jan 2011","Island Press","Washington, United States",English,"6th ed.","b&w photos",1597268275,"56,214",4.26,US$38.08,US$40.01,"Jan Gehl is a founding partner of Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants. He is the author of Life Between Buildings and Public Spaces, Public Life. He has received numerous awards for his work and is widely credited with creating and renewing urban spaces in cities around the world, including Copenhagen, Melbourne, New York City, London, and many others. He lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.",Paperback,,,,
145,"2018-01-11 01:11:11","The Timeless Way of Building",9780195024029,"Christopher Alexander","The theory of architecture implicit in our world today, Christopher Alexander believes, is bankrupt. More and more people are aware that something is deeply wrong. Yet the power of present-day ideas is so great that many feel uncomfortable, even afraid, to say openly that they dislike what is happening, because they are afraid to seem foolish, afraid perhaps that they will be laughed at. Now, at last, here is a coherent theory which describes in modern terms an architecture as ancient as human society itself.",,"This book is more a philosophy of life than an architectural commentary. David Abbott gave it to me some years ago and I constantly refer to it. It is full of wisdom and inspiration, written in Alexander's beautiful prose style ... anyone who cares about the spaces we inhabit should read it. * Mike Dempsey, founding partner of CDT Design, Creative Review *",576,"142.24 x 200.66 x 30.48mm | 657.71g","10 Apr 1980","Oxford University Press","Oxford, United Kingdom",English,,"plates and text-figures throughout",0195024028,"44,570",4.3,US$49.40,US$65.00,"Christopher Alexander is a builder, craftsman, general contractor, architect, painter, and teacher. He taught from 1963 to 2002 as Professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now Professor Emeritus. He has spent his life running construction projects, experimenting with new building methods and materials, and crafting carefully articulated buildings--all to advance the idea that people can build environments in which they will thrive. Acting on his deeply-held conviction that, as a society, we must recover the means by which we can build and maintain healthy living environments, he has lived and worked in many cultures, and built buildings all over the world. Making neighborhoods, building-complexes, building, balustrades, columns, ceilings, windows, tiles, ornaments, models and mockups, paintings, furniture, castings and carvings--all this has been his passion, and is the cornerstone from which his paradigm-changing principles have been derived.",Hardback,,,,
146,"2018-01-11 01:11:14","The Gardens of Arne Maynard",9781858946269,"Arne Maynard","This is the first book on the work of one of today's most celebrated and sought-after garden designers. Arne Maynard is known for his award-winning gardens at the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show (2000, 2012) and for his beautiful and sympathetic gardens for private houses across the world. Central to his work as a designer is his ability to identify and draw out the essence of a place, something that gives his gardens a particular quality of harmony and belonging. Maynard is also a passionate gardener himself, and is in the process of transforming the garden around his house in Monmouthshire, Wales. This garden is one of those featured in the book, offering unique insights into the work in progress and his design methods. Also featured is Maynard's very first garden of his own, at Guanock House in Norfolk, where over ten years he created a formal layout - including a kitchen garden, herbaceous borders and a knot garden - from a field. Each of the twelve gardens is specially photographed and is described through the seasons in personal text by Maynard himself, including details of the brief and plant selection. The book also includes fully illustrated features on various topics close to Maynard's heart, such as growing and using roses, planting borders, creating productive kitchen gardens, incorporating sculpture in the garden, and training trees and shrubs. This beautiful book will appeal to garden lovers everywhere, whether armchair gardeners keen to explore the beautiful designs, or hands-on gardeners seeking inspiration and ideas for their own plots. It will also appeal to garden designers and horticultural students.",,,302,"254 x 309.88 x 33.02mm | 2,245.28g","29 Sep 2015","Merrell Publishers Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,1858946263,"45,142",4.28,US$67.27,US$70.00,"Arne Maynard is an internationally renowned garden designer who has created 200 gardens around the world including two award-winners at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Rosie Atkins: Rosie Atkins is the founder and former editor of Gardens Illustrated magazine and was subsequently curator of the Chelsea Physic Garden in London.",Hardback,,,,
147,"2018-01-11 01:11:17","Vogue Living",9780307266224,"Hamish Bowles","Lavishly illustrated in full color, a book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens--whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society--drawing on stories from the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living as well as never-before-published images by iconic photographers. Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People takes you to the private realms of style-makers around the world, captured by such celebrated photographers as Miles Aldridge, Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Oberto Gili, Francois Halard, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Sheila Metzner, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber, among many others. Their dazzling photographs bring to life interiors and exteriors, modern and classical, that are both inspiring and transporting. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Joan Juliet Buck, Dodie Kazanjian, Eve MacSweeney, Julia Reed, Marina Rust, and Vicki Woods take us behind the scenes to give us an intimate view of the owners and how they live. Here are Madonna's romantic rural retreat in the depths of the English countryside and the Oscar de la Renta's coral-stone Palladian mansion on the coast of the Dominican Republic; Michael and Eva Chow's epic Los Angeles manse and shoe maestro Christian Louboutin's magical houseboat on the Nile; Donna Karan's Zenlike Manhattan aerie and legendary tastemaker Marella Agnelli's enchanted villa and gardens in the Palmeraie of Marrakesh; Julian and Olatz Schnabel's operatic downtown loft and childrenswear designer Rachel Riley's miniature chateau on the Loire; celebrated landscape gardener Fernando Caruncho's innovative Spanish gardens and Houghton, David Cholmondeley's magnificent English stately home; Janet de Botton's idyllic Provencal estate; and four decades of Karl Lagerfeld's endlessly surprising houses, both innovative and palatial. Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People is an irresistible voyage through some of the world's most beautiful and private gardens and interiors.",,,400,"248 x 322 x 48mm | 2,839.47g","31 Dec 2016","Three Rivers Press","New York, United States",English,,"1 Illustrations, unspecified",0307266222,"62,032",4.05,US$89.39,,"Hamish Bowles is European editor at large for Vogue and editor in chief of Vogue Living. He was curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2001 Costume Institute exhibition, ""Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years."" He lives in New York, London, and Paris.",Hardback,,,,
149,"2018-01-11 01:11:19","The Permaculture City",9781603585262,"Toby Hemenway","Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City provides a new way of thinking about urban living, with practical examples for creating abundant food, energy security, close-knit communities, local and meaningful livelihoods, and sustainable policies in our cities and towns. The same nature-based approach that works so beautifully for growing food--connecting the pieces of the landscape together in harmonious ways--applies perfectly to many of our other needs. Toby Hemenway, one of the leading practitioners and teachers of permaculture design, illuminates a new way forward through examples of edge-pushing innovations, along with a deeply holistic conceptual framework for our cities, towns, and suburbs. The Permaculture City begins in the garden but takes what we have learned there and applies it to a much broader range of human experience; we're not just gardening plants but people, neighborhoods, and even cultures. Hemenway lays out how permaculture design can help towndwellers solve the challenges of meeting our needs for food, water, shelter, energy, community, and livelihood in sustainable, resilient ways. Readers will find new information on designing the urban home garden and strategies for gardening in community, rethinking our water and energy systems, learning the difference between a ""job"" and a ""livelihood,"" and the importance of placemaking and an empowered community. This important book documents the rise of a new sophistication, depth, and diversity in the approaches and thinking of permaculture designers and practitioners. Understanding nature can do more than improve how we grow, make, or consume things; it can also teach us how to cooperate, make decisions, and arrive at good solutions.",,"-I'm someone with a strong bias towards country living and I've always thought that the phrase 'urban permaculture' is oxymoronic. I've often thought master planners should be working to revive small towns, not build more cities. Toby Hemenway has shown me the error of my ways. The function of a well-conceived city, he says, is to inspire. His book inspires.---Albert Bates, president, Global Village Institute for Appropriate Technology",320,"187.96 x 238.76 x 20.32mm | 635.03g","11 Aug 2015","Chelsea Green Publishing Co","White River Junction, United States",English,,"Colour photos, charts, graphs, and illustrations",1603585265,"55,665",4.1,US$24.98,,,Paperback,,,,
150,"2018-01-11 01:11:30","Public Places Urban Spaces",9781856178273,"Professor Matthew Carmona","Public Places Urban Spaces is a thorough introduction to the principles of urban design theory and practice. Authored by experts in the fields of urban design and planning, it is designed specifically for the 2,500 postgraduate students on Urban Design courses in the UK, and 1,500 students on undergraduate courses in the same subject. The second edition of this tried and trusted textbook has been updated with relevant case studies to show students how principles have been put into practice. The book is now in full color and in a larger format, so students and lecturers get a much stronger visual package and easy-to-use layout, enabling them to more easily practically apply principles of urban design to their projects. Sustainability is the driving factor in urban regeneration and new urban development, and the new edition is focused on best sustainable design and practice. Public Places Urban Spaces is a must-have purchase for those on urban design courses and for professionals who want to update and refresh their knowledge.","Part 1: The Context for Urban Design  1. Urban Design Today  2. Urban Change  3. Contexts for Urban Design  Part 2: The Dimensions of Urban Design  4. The Morphological Dimension  5. The Perceptual Dimension  6. The Social Dimension  7. The Visual Dimension  8. The Functional Dimension  9. The Temporal Dimension  Part 3: Implementing Urban Design  10. The Development Process  11. The Control Process  12. The Communication Process 13. Holistic Urban Design",,408,"212 x 274 x 20mm | 1,120.37g","25 Aug 2010","Taylor & Francis Ltd","Oxford, United Kingdom",English,"2nd Revised edition","Illustrations, maps",1856178277,"84,093",4.12,US$59.29,US$66.95,"He is currently a member of the RTPI General Assembly. He is on the editorial board of 'Urban Design Quarterly', is Book Reviews Editor for the 'Journal of Urban Design', and series editor for the 'Design in the Built Environment' research text series from Ashgate.",Paperback,"Architectural Press",,,
151,"2018-01-11 01:11:39","The Kinfolk Home",9781579656652,"Nathan Williams","Interest in home design has been on the rise for some time, but Kinfolk's focus on slowing down and creating a more intentional, beautiful home is where the attention is shifting. Through luscious photographs and insightful interviews, the author takes us into 40 homes around the world, from the Americas to Europe, Asia to Africa, ending in Australia. The homes range from an old cabin in the woods to clean-lined modern apartments, from singles living in small spaces to sprawling, multi-generational houses in the country. Each will feel unmistakably Kinfolk.",,"Nathan Williams first home-design book is as tightly curated as his wildly popular magazine, ""Kinfolk."" ""The Kinfolk Home"" features 35 diverse residences across five continents, each with owners who have created environs that are authentic to their values and living style. ""C California Style Magazine"" Advice on creating homes that foster community, center on simplicity and allow for slow living. ""BookPage"" Although slow living may conjure up visions of sparsely furnished interiors, many here illustrate crowded bookshelves, art-filled walls, and rooms populated with children and pets in close to 300 color photographs. VERDICT This handsome volume filled with visuals and advice shows how to create an environment surrounded by meaningful objects and designed to facilitate the enjoyment of life. ""Library Journal"" "" ""Nathan Williams' first home-design book is as tightly curated as his wildly popular magazine, Kinfolk. The Kinfolk Home features 35 diverse residences across five continents, each with owners who have created environs that are authentic to their values and living style.""--C California Style Magazine ""Advice on creating homes that foster community, center on simplicity and allow for slow living.""--BookPage ""Although slow living may conjure up visions of sparsely furnished interiors, many here illustrate crowded bookshelves, art-filled walls, and rooms populated with children and pets in close to 300 color photographs. VERDICT This handsome volume filled with visuals and advice shows how to create an environment surrounded by meaningful objects and designed to facilitate the enjoyment of life.""--Library Journal Nathan Williams first home-design book is as tightly curated as his wildly popular magazine, Kinfolk. The Kinfolk Home features 35 diverse residences across five continents, each with owners who have created environs that are authentic to their values and living style. C California Style Magazine Advice on creating homes that foster community, center on simplicity and allow for slow living. BookPage Although slow living may conjure up visions of sparsely furnished interiors, many here illustrate crowded bookshelves, art-filled walls, and rooms populated with children and pets in close to 300 color photographs. VERDICT This handsome volume filled with visuals and advice shows how to create an environment surrounded by meaningful objects and designed to facilitate the enjoyment of life. Library Journal """,368,"203 x 279 x 35.31mm | 1,560.36g","08 Jan 2016",ARTISAN,"New York, United States",English,,"Full-colour images throughout",157965665X,809,3.7,US$33.64,US$35.00,"Kinfolk magazine is today's most popular and coveted indie lifestyle journal, selling 55K copies of each quarterly issue ($18 apiece), and with more social media followers on Instagram and Facebook than any other lifestyle brand. The team's first book, The Kinfolk Table, has sold 90K copies in print. Author Nathan Williams is the founding editor of Kinfolk magazine; he lives with his wife, Katie, in Portland, Oregon.Kinfolk magazine has its own distribution in Australia",Hardback,"Artisan Division of Workman Publishing",,,
152,"2018-01-11 01:11:43",Hygge,9780718185336,"Marie Tourell Söderberg","One little word is the secret reminder of what really matters in life: Hygge. CHRISTMAS is the perfect time to embrace it and THIS BOOK will show you how.------------------------------To me, hygge is:- Meeting my sister for a walk in the park, chatting, laughing and clowning around, as if we were children again.- Listening to the rain on the roof with a cup of tea and my boyfriend next to me.- Drinking wine in my mum's garden- Enjoying a cup of coffee with good friends, that becomes a dinner, that becomes a late-night drink, because no one wants the evening to end.------------------------------ Though we all know the feeling of hygge instinctively few of us ever manage to capture it for more than a moment. Now Danish actress and hygge aficionado Marie Tourell Soderberg - star of BBC 4's 1864 - has travelled the length and breadth of her home country to create the perfect guide to cooking, decorating, entertaining and being inspired the hygge way. Full of beautiful photographs and simple, practical steps and ideas to make your home and life both comfortable and cheering all year round, this book is the easy way to introduce hygge into your life. 'Pretty, homey and intimate, scattered with reflections from ordinary Danes' Guardian",,"Other books will tell you how to do hygge. This is the only book that will show you. Full of beautiful photographs and simple, practical steps and ideas to make your home and life both comfortable and cheering all year round, this book is the easy way to introduce hygge into your life. * from the publisher's description *",224,"218 x 261 x 27mm | 750g","01 Sep 2017","Penguin Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"UK ed.",,0718185331,"10,354",3.42,US$21.56,US$21.95,"Marie Tourell Soderberg is a Danish actress, born in Copenhagen. She is a rising star of Nordic Noir whose credits feature stage, TV and film, including a leading role in historical epic 1864. She is a hygge enthusiast and will be curating her first book on the topic with contributions from everyday Danes and experts.",Hardback,"Michael Joseph Ltd",,,
153,"2018-01-11 01:11:45","Design*Sponge Big Book of Ideas for the Home",9781579654313,"Grace Bonney","Grace Bonney's daily website Design*Sponge -dubbed Martha Stewart Living for MillennialsA"" by The New York Times -has 60,000 daily readers who love the site for its home tours and makeovers, DIY projects, recipes, videos, and podcasts. Bonney created the site in 2004 as an antidote to the fussy ( and expensive) shelter magazines of her mother's generation, turning it into a rallying point for crafty young homeowners everywhere. Culled fro her site, but with 50 percent all-new material, DESIGN*SPONGE DECORATING ESSENTIALS is Bonney's definative guide to creating a stylish home for young homeowners and renters. This is truly Design on a Dime-from the tours of real-life interiors, where the decor was culled from flea markets and the owners' objects as a butterfly dome. Along the way, Bonney teaches the reader the principles of decorating and collecting, empowering them to create beautiful homes of their own.",,"""""Design Sponge at Home"" is about to become your next obsession. It's a 400-page, gold foil-covered bible of hip homes, easy chic projects, and smart decorating ideas. Bonus: a handy resource guide in the back tells you where to score everything from antiques to bath tile."" --""Coastal Living"" ""If you're not already a fan of designsponge.com, Grace Bonney's style-saturated website, you'll fall in love with her book."" --""Better Homes & Gardens"" ""Bonney's book is a 'how-to' guide for great design. Not only is it beautiful to look at, there are tons of design ideas on every page.""""--Austin American-Statesman"" ""Part beauty, part inspiration, part resource, Bonney's book . . . serves as both a wonderful coffee table tome to page through and a resource to guide you through a variety of home decor projects.""""--Portland Oregonian"" ""Chic cleverness, in book form. . . . Accessible decor inspiration.""""--Dallas Morning News"" ""A one-stop book for inspiration and practical guidance.""""--Cleveland Plain Dealer"" ""Design Sponge at Home"" is about to become your next obsession. It s a 400-page, gold foil-covered bible of hip homes, easy chic projects, and smart decorating ideas. Bonus: a handy resource guide in the back tells you where to score everything from antiques to bath tile. ""Coastal Living"" If you re not already a fan of designsponge.com, Grace Bonney s style-saturated website, you ll fall in love with her book. ""Better Homes & Gardens"" Bonney s book is a how-to guide for great design. Not only is it beautiful to look at, there are tons of design ideas on every page. "" Austin American-Statesman"" Part beauty, part inspiration, part resource, Bonney s book . . . serves as both a wonderful coffee table tome to page through and a resource to guide you through a variety of home decor projects. "" Portland Oregonian"" Chic cleverness, in book form. . . . Accessible decor inspiration. "" Dallas Morning News"" A one-stop book for inspiration and practical guidance. "" Cleveland Plain Dealer"" "" ""Design Sponge at Home is about to become your next obsession. It's a 400-page, gold foil-covered bible of hip homes, easy chic projects, and smart decorating ideas. Bonus: a handy resource guide in the back tells you where to score everything from antiques to bath tile."" --Coastal Living ""If you're not already a fan of designsponge.com, Grace Bonney's style-saturated website, you'll fall in love with her book."" --Better Homes & Gardens ""Bonney's book is a 'how-to' guide for great design. Not only is it beautiful to look at, there are tons of design ideas on every page.""--Austin American-Statesman ""Part beauty, part inspiration, part resource, Bonney's book . . . serves as both a wonderful coffee table tome to page through and a resource to guide you through a variety of home decor projects.""--Portland Oregonian ""Chic cleverness, in book form. . . . Accessible decor inspiration.""--Dallas Morning News ""A one-stop book for inspiration and practical guidance.""--Cleveland Plain Dealer Design Sponge at Home is about to become your next obsession. It s a 400-page, gold foil-covered bible of hip homes, easy chic projects, and smart decorating ideas. Bonus: a handy resource guide in the back tells you where to score everything from antiques to bath tile. Coastal Living If you re not already a fan of designsponge.com, Grace Bonney s style-saturated website, you ll fall in love with her book. Better Homes & Gardens Bonney s book is a how-to guide for great design. Not only is it beautiful to look at, there are tons of design ideas on every page. Austin American-Statesman Part beauty, part inspiration, part resource, Bonney s book . . . serves as both a wonderful coffee table tome to page through and a resource to guide you through a variety of home decor projects. Portland Oregonian Chic cleverness, in book form. . . . Accessible decor inspiration. Dallas Morning News A one-stop book for inspiration and practical guidance. Cleveland Plain Dealer """,400,"208.28 x 259.08 x 30.48mm | 1,655.6g","06 Sep 2011",ARTISAN,"New York, United States",English,,"Colour photography throughout",1579654312,"21,473",4.02,US$29.86,US$35.00,,Hardback,"Artisan Division of Workman Publishing",,,
155,"2018-01-11 01:11:57",Styled,9780804186278,"Emily Henderson","NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER The ultimate guide to thinking like a stylist, with 1,000 design ideas for creating the most beautiful, personal, and livable rooms. It's easy to find your own style confidence once you know this secret: While decorating can take months and tons of money, styling often takes just minutes. Even a few little tweaks can transform the way your room feels. At the heart of Styled are Emily Henderson's ten easy steps to styling any space. From editing out what you don't love to repurposing what you can't live without to arranging the most eye-catching vignettes on any surface, you'll learn how to make your own style magic. With Emily's style diagnostic, insider tips, and more than 1,000 unique ideas from 75 envy-inducing rooms, you'll soon be styling like you were born to do it.",,"""Styled is packed with practical advice for any design enthusiast, whether a space needs a few finishing touches or a complete overhaul."" -Architectural Digest ""Interior designer Emily Henderson is a genius when it comes to styling. Her new book, Styled, is filled with tips for making rooms look beautiful and feel cozy."" -Joanna Goddard, Cup of Jo ""Everyone's favorite design doyenne, HGTV's Emily Henderson shows you how to think like a stylist in your own home, offering tips on how to edit down your collection of stuff, arrange a perfect vignette, and find new uses for old things--all without breaking the bank. Start with her home style quiz, then get to work."" -Lonny ""Styled takes rooms and vignettes that could seem hopelessly enigmatic and breaks them down, bit by bit, to give readers ideas and explanations and the tools to recreate or even just understand why something is placed the way it is and why it works. [Emily] is funny and informal, chatty and, perhaps most importantly, she is accessible. The lady's got a an eye."" -Justina Blakeney, author of The New Bohemians ""Styled is full of inspiration and advice for getting that magazine-ready look in your own home."" -Apartment Therapy ""Your personal stylist is in the building. The HGTV darling and blog queen dishes out 10 easy style steps to update your space into something smart and savvy but ultimately still you. And with 1,000 unique decorating ideas, your home will be ready for its close-up."" -USA Today ""Styled will help you edit your home and find your inner stylist."" -Good Housekeeping ""Henderson, HGTV Design Star winner, offers her tips for making the rooms in your home look like the ones in magazines. You can have all the right colors, furniture and organization, but without a few styling tips, it may still fall flat. First Henderson helps you figure out your style (are you seventies or traditional? Modern glam or bohemian?) then after hipping you to a few industry terms, she takes you through 10 easy steps to transform your rooms. A final room-by-room guide helps you find style secrets that work with each space."" -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution",304,"209 x 236 x 25mm | 566.99g","13 Oct 2015","Random House USA Inc","New York, United States",English,,"275-300 4-C PHOTOS T/O",0804186278,"2,693",3.86,US$28.45,US$32.50,"Emily Henderson is a stylist, interior designer, TV host, and Editor in Chief of the daily website Style Emily Henderson, which Apartment Therapy named the Best Home Design & Inspiration Blog of 2014. Her work has been featured in InStyle, House Beautiful, and domino. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and daughter.",Hardback,"Random House Inc",,,
156,"2018-01-11 01:12:05",Etcetera,9781741965568,"Sibella Court","Packed with tips of the interior stylist's trade, Etcetera is a lavishly photographed interiors book which demonstrates inspiring principles that will help transform a room without the need for expensive and permanent renovation. Author Sibella Court's style is very global, combining contemporary elements with antiques and junk-shop finds, textile fragments, wallpapers, collectables and ephemera. Etcetera draws on five of Sibella's favourite colour themes as a framework for the display of her impeccable eye for detail and her bowerbird tendencies. Each section will draw the reader into Sibella's world of colour and texture, through inspirational room settings to the most intimate of details. Think of opening Pandora's box, or indeed, Darwin's cabinet of curiosities and in turn opening yourself to a world of new possibilities.",,"""The result [of reading ""Etcetera""] is a globally inspired space that's full of color, texture, and imagination."" ""The Daily News"""" ""The result [of reading Etcetera] is a globally inspired space that's full of color, texture, and imagination."" The Daily News"" ""There are few books in the world as lovely as this. . . . the biblio equivalent of pottering around a junk shop you've stumbled across in a back alley of Paris."" Ideal Home""",265,"190 x 260 x 40mm | 1,202.01g","17 Jul 2012","MURDOCH BOOKS","Millers Point, Australia",English,Reprint,,174196556X,"49,454",4.1,US$36.37,US$39.95,"After establishing herself as an interior stylist in Australian lifestyle publications, Sibella Court moved to New York in 1999. She built a career in the US over nine years, working on advertising campaigns for Jo Malone, Bergdorf Goodman and Brocade home, and was a regular contributor to magazines including Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, US Vogue Living and House & Garden. She returned home in 2008 and opened The Society Inc, an old haberdashery meets hardware store specialising in local and global textiles, furniture, homewares and beautiful things. Sibella is the Interiors Editor of Harpers Bazaar and Grazia magazines, designs paint ranges quarterly with Murobond Paints and was recently a judge on the interior design TV show Homemade.",Hardback,,,,
157,"2018-01-11 01:12:12","Indoor Green",9780500500538,"Bree Claffey","For centuries, plants have transformed interiors. Today house plants are once again experiencing a revival. Author Bree Claffey of Mr Kitly journeys into the worlds of fellow plant lovers to explore the enduring attraction of house plants. From the ever-reliable Peace lily and beguiling Fiddle leaf fig to the elusive Chinese money plant, house plants are showcased in all their weird and wonderful forms. More than good-looking props, plants are living growing things rooted in community and creativity and as this book celebrates, house plants are a way of life.",,"This enlivening exploration will inspire even the most timid of indoor plant lovers, providing a fresh look at an affordable type of gardening that both beautifies a home and expands the soul.",208,"213 x 270 x 22mm | 1,160g","31 Jan 2017","Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","Fisherman's Bend, Australia",English,,"200 Colour Illustrations",0500500533,"31,054",4.14,US$39.60,US$39.95,"Bree Claffey is the owner of Mr Kitly - an emporium of carefully curated ceramics, homewares and lush indoor plants, which stylists, designers and creative typesflock to. Bree regularly curates houseplants for cafes and shops and holds monthly exhibitions featuring work by various artists and makers from Australia and beyond. Lauren Bamford is a Melbourne-based lifestyle photographer. She regularly contributes to national and international publications including Frankie, Vogue Living, Kinfolk and The Wall Street Journal. She was featured in the 2014 Thames & Hudson publication Around Australia with Jacky Winter and is represented byThe Jacky Winter Group's photographic branch SEA.",Hardback,,,,
158,"2018-01-11 01:12:16","Tilda's Studio",9781446301586,"Tone Finnanger","This is a gorgeous collection of over 50 projects inspired by Tilda's studio. Choose from a stunning variety of designs for yourself and your home, including bags, accessories, clothing, decorating, gifts and soft toys. The colour palette used includes beautiful shades of lavender, pink, teal, turquoise, green and blue. Easy-to-follow instructions, gorgeous colour photos and delightful illustrations accompany each project.","Features the latest Tilda fabrics and products

* Over 50 inspiring projects in a fresh and modern colour scheme

* Brand new character designs",,160,"210 x 274 x 22mm | 698.53g","20 Sep 2011","DAVID & CHARLES","Newton Abbot, United Kingdom",English,,"400 Illustrations, color",1446301583,"68,669",4.24,US$22.78,US$24.99,"Tone Finnanger is the designer and owner of the brand Tilda. She grew up in Oslo, the capital of Norway. Always fond of art and craft, inspired by members of the family she soon began to explore how she could make a living from her talent. The dream was to make dolls and scenery for animation films, while in real life she was working in a craft shop. This combination is what eventually led to the idea of Tilda. Tone started Tilda in 1999, 25 years old. She now lives on an island in the Oslo fjord with her boyfriend and her dog. This is also where she has her studio. She has her education in graphic design and art.",Paperback,,,,
159,"2018-01-11 01:12:21","Urban Plants",9783766722447,"Igor Josifovic","Urban Jungle: Living and Styling with Plants is a source of inspiration, ideas and a manual for all of those who want to bring more plants into their home. The book guides the reader through different ""green"" homes in five European countries and shows how beautiful, unique, creative and even artistic living with plants can be. More than that the reader finds endless ideas for styling from the bloggers of the ""Urban Jungle Bloggers"" community. To complete the topic of indoor plants the book offers easy help for taking care of the plants and DIY tips.",,"This book is filled with plant styling ideas and plant information for those who want to bring more green indoors."" Journal Sentinel",176,"220 x 287 x 20mm | 1,062g","31 Oct 2017","Georg Callwey","Munich, Germany",English,"7. Auflage","250 colour",3766722441,"3,177",3.92,US$33.26,US$35.00,"Igor Josifovic is a blogger, social-media expert, loves plants and commutes between Munich and Paris. He shares his affection for the topics interior design, travelling and especially ""living with plants"" with his readers on his ""Happy Interior Blog"" and on the plant-community ""Urban Jungle Bloggers"". Judith de Graaff is also a blogger, works as a graphic designer and loves plants as well. She lives with her husband and her cats in a former factory building near Paris. Her own blog JOELIX.com is her playground where style, colours and plants meet. She is a steady companion for the plant- community ""Urban Jungle Bloggers"" and hopes to inspire others with her love for all things green.",Hardback,,,,
160,"2018-01-11 01:12:32","The Selby is in Your Place",9780810984868,"Todd Selby","""The Selby Is in Your Place"" was conceived when Todd Selby began taking portraits of dynamic and creative people - authors, musicians, artists, designers and other cultural tastemakers - in their home environments and posting them on his blog. Nosy by nature, he was interested in seeing how someone's personal style is reflected in their private spaces. Lucky for us, he found his answer in the colour-rich, eclectic and varied spaces he visited while photographing a diverse group of subjects in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney and London. Some of his subjects are famous and some are not. Some are rich, others aren't. Some are photographed in their apartments or houses, while others are shown in their studios or offices. What they have in common are unique spaces bursting with energy and personality that together create a colourful hodgepodge of inspirational interiors. Each profile is accompanied by Selby's watercolour portraits of the subjects and their illustrated questionnaires, which reveal their answers to questions about homes, possessions and personal style. This book consists of over thirty profiles: half of which are favourites from his web site, the other half are never-before-seen shoots selected exclusively for the book.",,,256,"208.28 x 281.94 x 27.94mm | 1,428.81g","19 Oct 2010",Abrams,"New York, United States",English,,"300 full-colour illustrations",0810984865,"83,068",4.05,US$31.33,US$37.50,"Todd Selby is an interiors, fashion, and portrait photographer and painter. His photographs can be regularly seen in British Vogue, Vogue Hommes International, Dazed and Confused, Another Magazine, Nylon, New York Magazine, and the London Sunday Times. Lesley Arfin is the New York-based author of Dear Diary and the former editor of Missbehave magazine.",Hardback,"Harry N. Abrams, Inc.",,,
161,"2018-01-11 01:12:42","The New Bohemians",9781617691515,"Justina Blakeney","In The New Bohemians, LA-based interior designer Justina Blakeney defines the New Bohemians, creative individuals who are boutique owners and bloggers, entrepreneurs and ex-pats, artists and urban farmers. They embrace free-spirited, no-rules lifestyles and apply that attitude to all areas of their existence, including their homes. Allowing little serious distinction between work and play, the new boho home is also often an office, art gallery, showroom, photography studio, restaurant, and pop-up shop.The New Bohemians explores 20 homes located primarily on the East and West coasts. Exclusive interviews with the owners, as well as 12 DIY projects created by Blakeney and inspired by the inhabitants, offer insight into achieving this aesthetic. In addition, each home is accompanied by ""Adopt a Look,"" a section offering general decor, styling, and shopping tips for easy duplication in your own home.",,,304,"205.74 x 256.54 x 33.02mm | 1,406.13g","28 May 2015","Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc","New York, United States",English,,"250 colour photographs",1617691518,"1,731",3.99,US$33.07,US$35.00,"Justina Blakeney is an established creative consultant, designer, stylist, and the blogger behind The Jungalow. She has collaborated with brands such as Etsy, Anthropologie, One Kings Lane, 1stdibs, West Elm, and Target. She lives in Los Angeles.",Hardback,,,,
162,"2018-01-11 01:12:48","The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes",9783899555608,Monocle,"This Monocle book tells us how to turn a house into a home. Both a practical guide and a great source of inspiration, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes presents the interiors, furniture, and locations you need to know about along with portraits of the people who can make it happen. The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes celebrates the durable and the meaningful through a collection of homes that tell a story. Most architecture and interior books show houses polished to perfection, manicured to the extent that it is hard to imagine anybody acually lives there: they seem to miss the point that homes are meant to be inhabited. They should be able to take the scuffs and knocks and to be part of a community, whether in a Chicago skyscraper or on Australia's sunshine coast. So where are the best places to make a home? What are the villages, coastlines, mountains, towns, and cities that would make you want to settle down? The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes answers those questions with a global photographic survey of a wide variety of homes. Whether the focus is on a remote residence in the Swedish archipelago or a lush abode in Rio de Janeiro, or on the difference between residing in Tokyo and Toronto, this book is the perfect balance between the inspirational and the practical. The book is a survey of everything you need to know to build the residence of your dreams, providing insight into the best neighborhoods, architects, and makers all over the world. From design-store owners to green-roof gardeners, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes introduces you to interesting people with ideas that are built to last. Monocle's signature illustrations punctuate the book's rich and detailed content. Through striking photography, The Monocle Guide to Cosy Homes also gives you a glimpse into the lives that unfold in these apartments, villas, and cottages, showing that these homes are alive and that this is precisely what makes them special. This is a book that should be referred to again and again--it is a book about the quality of life.",,,400,"200 x 265 x 33.02mm | 1,678.29g","01 Sep 2015","Die Gestalten Verlag","Berlin, Germany",English,,"w. ill.",3899555600,"3,369",4.23,US$54.64,US$59.99,,Hardback,,,,
163,"2018-01-11 01:12:54","India Hicks",9780847845064,"India Hicks","From India Hicks, a beautifully illustrated guide to achieving her famously undone, gloriously bohemian decorating style. Born from British and design royalty, India Hicks has forged a design empire from her family's enclave in the Bahamas. In India Hicks: Island Style, she invites readers into her world, offering never-before-seen imagery and irresistible behind-the-scenes stories. Beginning with an uproarious reflection on India's own design odyssey, the heart of the book is an in-depth exploration of her style. Timeless and under-decorated, her rooms combine carefree Caribbean culture with British colonial form and formality. In ten chapters, India walks the reader through the basics of capturing the look: the subtle palette of island life; the miracle of tablescaping; the warm anarchy of a family kitchen; the pleasure of porches; the drama of entertaining; bedrooms as places of self-expression; the more is more style of living with collections; the importance of repurposing; and creating spaces of sanctuary. Witty, richly prescriptive, beautifully photographed, this book will enchant readers with a glimpse of decorating in paradise.",,"""What makes India and this book so unique is how openly she invites us into her life via the pages. It is written from a very personal perspective, sharing her passion for scrapbooking, the importance of building collections, lovely details about her family life and her absolutely wonderful tips on design, living and entertaining."" -Life in A Venti Cup ""India inspires me to let a love of life show through in my decorating. If you're looking for a book that's equal parts transportative and invigorating, Island Style is for you."" -MarthaStewart.com ""What makes India and this book so unique is how openly she invites us into her life via the pages. It is written from a very personal perspective, sharing her passion for scrapbooking, the importance of building collections, lovely details about her family life and her absolutely wonderful tips on design, living and entertaining."" -""Life in A Venti Cup"" ""India inspires me to let a love of life show through in my decorating. If you're looking for a book that's equal parts transportative and invigorating, ""Island Style""is for you.""""-MarthaStewart.com""""",224,"228.6 x 284.48 x 30.48mm | 1,723.64g","03 May 2017","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,,"150 colour photographs",0847845060,"5,629",3.86,US$39.76,US$45.01,"India Hicks was born in England to famed decorator David Hicks and Lady Pamela Hicks. Her grandfather, Lord Mountbatten, was the last viceroy to India, granting their independence in 1947. She was a bridesmaid for the wedding of her godfather, Prince Charles, to Lady Diana. A celebrated model, India lives with her partner, David Flint Wood, and their five children on Harbour Island, in the Bahamas. With David, she wrote her previous book, Island Life. A designer of fine jewellery she has also created collections for Crabtree and Evelyn and HSN, and will launch her own bath and body and accessories line. Her successful home decor, jewellery skincare, and accessory lines are also available at her website, indiahicks.com.",Hardback,,,,
164,"2018-01-11 01:13:04","Kevin McCloud's Principles of Home",9780007425068,"Kevin McCloud","New, practical paperback edition of the landmark design manifesto from the UK's favourite design guru.In this inspirational yet also practical paperback Kevin explores all areas of domestic living, from materialism to sustainability, craftsmanship to comfort. Kevin's beautifully written text brings insight and understanding to enjoying life in the 21st century, but crucially he offers detailed, helpful and incisive advice on design, construction and style.Kevin addresses very real and solvable domestic issues: What is the perfect kitchen layout? How to create a feeling of space in traditionally sized rooms? How to create an extension that works? How best to choose colour for function? What to use for insulation? How to shop for second hand? And how best to manage home waste and recycling?An inspiring but always usable book from the foremost voice in modern architectural design.",,"`A landmark piece of interiors publishing...an inspiring but always usable book from the foremost voice in modern architectural design'. - Henley Standard`Both inspirational and practical, each of the 43 principles addresses very real domestic issues' - Guernsey NowQuotes on Kevin`a serious man of taste and integrity' The Observer`like most television naturals, Kevin McCloud has an unmediated quality which comes across as effortless... (the) David Attenborough of the building site' The Guardian`passionate; knowledgeable; eloquent and basically everything that most TV presenters are not' The Independent`Kevin McCloud can enthuse over a simple joist like no one else. This is a man who actually enjoys watching concrete dry... his enthusiasm is so infectious' The Observer",256,"154 x 206 x 26mm | 598.74g","14 Feb 2012","HarperCollins Publishers","London, United Kingdom",English,Abridged,"Illustrations (chiefly col.)",0007425066,"10,452",3.91,US$22.93,US$23.95,"Kevin McCloud is best known as presenter of Channel 4's BAFTA-nominated `Grand Designs', now in its tenth series. He writes books and articles about decoration, design, lighting and colour, and is editor-at-large of Grand Designs magazine. In addition, Kevin is a product and lighting designer and has produced ranges of furniture, lighting and tableware for high street names.",Paperback,Collins,,,
165,"2018-01-11 01:13:09","Tilda Homemade and Happy",9781446305904,"Tone Finnanger","A stunning new collection of Tilda designs from talented designer Tone Finnanger. Homemade and Happy is a gorgeous collection of inspirational home accessories including quilts, cushions and decorative items to make Christmas even more special. Choose from a range of ornaments including gold-winged reindeer and sheep, round-eyed owls, plump pigs with flower applique detail, angels, stars and darling decorative cakes. The book also features pretty practical designs such as an irresistible patchwork quilt, classic pillow covers and a cup pin-cushion, all in Tone's unique range of fabulous fabrics. The projects are photographed in the author's own log cabin situated in the snowy mountains of Norway, and capture Tone's unique and distinctive style. The Tilda brand is renowned worldwide and sales of the series now has combined sales of over 1 million copies worldwide. It is now well known for its whimsical, comical and naive characters in the form of animals and dolls that is popular with crafters of all ages and abilities. Tone has written several books including Sew Pretty Homestyle, Sew Sunny Homestyle, Crafting Tilda's Friends, Tilda's Christmas Ideas, Tilda's Summer Ideas, Tilda's Studio and Tilda's Seaside Ideas. She lives in Norway.",,,144,"206 x 274 x 18mm | 699.99g","01 Dec 2014","DAVID & CHARLES","Newton Abbot, United Kingdom",English,,,1446305902,"24,500",4.08,US$21.28,US$22.98,"Tone Finnanger is a talented designer and an expert in drawing and painting techniques. She worked as an interior designer and decorator in Oslo, Norway, before moving to a small island near Tonsberg. She has a distinctive style that has proven to be popular with crafters of all ages and abilities. Tone formed the Tilda brand in 1999 when she was just 25 years old. It is now well known for its whimsical, comical and naive characters in the form of animals and dolls. The brand has also developed a range of craft products for sewing and paper craft that are produced and distributed by Panduro Hobby.",Paperback,,,,
166,"2018-01-11 01:13:19",Nomad,9781742665696,"Sibella Court","Sibella Court sees the world differently. In her latest book, the stylist and bestselling author of ""Etcetera"" shows us how to bring our travels home with us in the most unexpected of ways. The globetrotter and treasure hunter travelled to Syria, Mexico, Italy, India and Japan to be inspired by everything from door knobs and street signs to roadside shrines and household brooms - things that most of us wouldn't even notice. In ""Nomad"", the ideas, photographs and mementos she collected are used to inspire room settings, illustrating simple, practical and surprising ways to be reminded of your travel experiences. Sibella's approach is not about recreating a whole look but about adding and subtracting, rearranging and recycling, transforming and rethinking to make interior spaces that reflect your personality, experiences and lifestyle. ""Nomad"" will help open your eyes to what's around you and fuel your imagination long after the suitcase is unpacked. Key points include: room settings are shot in private homes rather than a studio to show that any decorative background can be restyled with travel inspirations; Sibella Court's philosophy is an organic and sustainable one, encouraging recycling and creatively re-using rather than consuming new resources. This title includes a list of Sibella's favourite shops and a list of the unique hotels she stayed in while researching the countries in this book.",,,256,"218 x 262 x 34mm | 1,319.95g","01 Nov 2011","MURDOCH BOOKS","Millers Point, Australia",English,,,1742665691,"49,359",3.72,US$38.45,US$54.25,"After living and working as an interior stylist in NYC for 10 years, Sibella Court was drawn back home to summer days by the beach in Sydney, where she opened her haberdashery meets hardware store, The Society Inc., a home for all the flea market finds and artisan pieces she's collected and uncovered over years of globetrotting. Sibella, who has appeared on Keith Johnson's show, Man Shops Globe, on the Sundance Channel, designs commercial interiors for the Merivale Group and contributes to InsideOut, Vogue Living and Harper's Bazaar. Her first book is the bestseller Etcetera: Creating beautiful interiors with the things you love. She has also created a 120-palette paint range for Murobond and a hardware range exclusively for Anthropologie and The Society Inc. Sibella is constantly on the lookout for beautiful and curious things.",Hardback,,,,
167,"2018-01-11 01:13:20","Modern Vintage Style",9781849750998,"Emily Chalmers","Decorating should be fun and inspiring, so there are no style diktats; no `this-must-go-with-that'. Modern vintage is all about trusting your instincts and taste and using a bit of imagination in seeking out the right items to create a perfect balance of old and new. In the first section of the book, Inspirations, Emily offers up imaginative and varied examples of furniture, lighting, textiles, decorating and collections & display. In the second section, Style, she shows you exactly how to pull the look together, applying her decorating philosophy so you can cook & eat, live, sleep and bathe in tune with Modern Vintage Style.",,,160,"218.44 x 256.54 x 17.78mm | 997.9g","30 Apr 2011","Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"280 colour photographs",1849750998,"14,459",3.52,,,"Emily Chalmers is a photographic stylist and author who excels at using more dash than cash to create inspirational interiors. Her work has appeared in several magazines and she now happily combines work with play running her eclectic design boutique Caravan (www.caravanstyle.com). Emily is the author of the bestselling Flea Market Style and Cheap Chic (both Ryland Peters & Small).",Hardback,,,,
168,"2018-01-11 01:13:29",Remodelista,9781579655365,"Julie Carlson","Remodelista.com is the go-to, undisputed authority for home design enthusiasts, remodellers, architects, and designers. Unlike sites that cater to all tastes, Remodelista has a singular and clearly defined aesthetic: classic pieces trump designs that are trendy and transient, and well-edited spaces take precedence over cluttered environments. High and low mix seamlessly here, and getting the look need not be expensive. Remodelista decodes the secrets to achieving this aesthetic, with in-depth tours and lessons from 12 enviable homes; a recipe-like breakdown of the hardest-working kitchens and bathrooms; dozens of do-it-yourself projects; ""The Remodelista 100,"" a guide to the best everyday household objects; and an in-depth look at the ins and outs of the remodelling process. In a world of design confusion, Remodelista takes the guesswork out of the process.",,"""This well-ordered, well-photographed book is packed with great ideas. It includes detailed descriptions of a dozen cool houses, with ideas on how to steal this look. There are thorough chapters on bathrooms and kitchens. . . . Carlson, editor-in-chief of the website, used the book to highlight remodeling, redecorating, and organizing, as well as budgeting. The Remodelista 100 at the back of the book is like the Academy Awards of everyday household gear."" --Dallas Morning News This well-ordered, well-photographed book is packed with great ideas. It includes detailed descriptions of a dozen cool houses, with ideas on how to steal this look. There are thorough chapters on bathrooms and kitchens. . . . Carlson, editor-in-chief of the website, used the book to highlight remodeling, redecorating, and organizing, as well as budgeting. The Remodelista 100 at the back of the book is like the Academy Awards of everyday household gear. Dallas Morning News"" This well-ordered, well-photographed book is packed with great ideas. It includes detailed descriptions of a dozen cool houses, with ideas on how to steal this look. There are thorough chapters on bathrooms and kitchens. . . . Carlson, editor-in-chief of the website, used the book to highlight remodeling, redecorating, and organizing, as well as budgeting. The Remodelista 100 at the back of the book is like the Academy Awards of everyday household gear. "" Dallas Morning News""""",400,"193.04 x 264.16 x 43.18mm | 997.9g","05 Nov 2013",ARTISAN,"New York, United States",English,,"Colour photography throughout",157965536X,"59,326",3.87,US$36.48,US$39.95,,Hardback,"Artisan Division of Workman Publishing",,,
169,"2018-01-11 01:13:38","Monochrome Home",9781849756136,"Hilary Robertson","Decorating in black and white is perennially popular and eternally chic. Hilary Robertson demonstrates how, whether used alone or together, these contrasting shades can create dramatic effects at home, from the classic to the eclectic. Sought-after interiors stylist Hilary Robertson celebrates the stylish simplicity of the monochromatic home - elegant interiors in black, white, and every shade of grey in between. In the first chapter, The Monochrome Palette, Hilary analyzes five different monochrome schemes, providing moodboards for different effects: In Black and White, Grey Matters, Shades of Pale, Dark Looks and In the Mix. Following on, Let there be Light provides examples of interiors with a whiter, brighter approach, while The Dark Room visits homes that have employed darker monochrome palettes. Next, in Monochrome Home, Hilary Robertson shows how to bring the look right up to date, visiting 13 fabulously inspiring homes of artists, architects and designers across the globe from London to Paris, Copenhagen, rural Sweden and NYC.",,,192,"228 x 286 x 28mm | 1,399.98g","04 Sep 2015","Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"300 x col photographs",1849756139,"1,747",3.59,US$32.06,US$35.00,"Hilary Robertson is a well-known interiors stylist and journalist with an illustrious client list that includes Canvas, Ochre, Elle Decoration, Vogue Living, and the Telegraph Magazine. Also a talented writer, Hilary wrote the text for Josephine Ryan's 'French Home' (978-1-84975-357-9) and is the author of 'The Stuff of Life' (978-1-84975-505-4), both of which are published by Ryland Peters & Small. Hilary lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.",Hardback,,,,
170,"2018-01-11 01:13:47","Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui",9780749918248,"Karen Kingston","Clearing clutter can radically transform your life. Drawing on her wealth of experience as a feng shui and space clearing consultant, Karen Kingston explains how clutter is trapped energy with far-reaching physical, mental, emotional and spiritual effects. This book will motivate you to clutter-clear as never before, once you realise just how much your junk has been holding you back! Learn* why people clear clutter* how clutter causes stagnation in every area of your life* why clearing clutter is essential for effective Feng Shui* how to clear clutter effectively.",,"What a great book and long overdue. I have read it twice in a week and underline more of it each time. Thanks, Karen, for helping me to simplify my life in a joyful way. LOUISE HAY A gem of a book. You'll read it on the bus going home and be boxing, filing and clearing the instant you're through the door. ELLE",272,"120 x 159 x 20mm | 220g","01 May 2013","Little, Brown Book Group","London, United Kingdom",English,,"Illustrations, plans",0749918241,"19,046",4.01,,,"Karen Kingston is one of the world's top feng shui and space clearing consultants. She divides her time between her homes in Sydney and Bali and teaching to packed audiences in the UK, America and around the world. Her books include Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui.",Paperback,"PIATKUS BOOKS",,,
171,"2018-01-11 01:13:48","Hide and Seek",9783899555455,"S. Borges","Our longing for simplicity, clarity, and relaxation often leads us into nature. Hide and Seek showcases the most beautiful places for satisfying this longing. More and more people are yearning to live in harmony with nature. Yet they don't want to give up their homes in the city or make radical changes to their lives Instead, they are creating their very own retreats in nature. The furniture, decor, and feel of these highly individual structures offer their owners an exceptional, yet convenient way of escaping from their urban routines. The right concept is more important than a lot of space. The architecture and interior design are rustic, bucolic, and simple --dedicated to turning a small plot of land into a sanctuary for relaxation. Hide and Seek adds inspiring examples to the range of stunning getaways in nature presented in Rock the Shack, the bestselling predecessor to this book. Whether located in the forest, on the water, or in the mountains; whether light and minimalistic or dark and cozy, the featured retreats exemplify how to create locations that offer calm and balance in our hectic lives. The cabins, hideaways, and homes showcased here meld traditional architecture with modern living in fascinating and surprising ways. Although the individual solutions are very different from each other, all of them respect nature and focus on the essentials. Hide and Seek is a contemporary survey of contextual architecture and interior design that radiates inner strength It not only has the power to bring people in tune with their surroundings, but also with themselves.",,,256,"246 x 306 x 28mm | 1,719.97g","04 Sep 2014","Die Gestalten Verlag","Berlin, Germany",English,"6th print.","illustrations (colour)",3899555457,"35,671",4.2,US$51.35,US$59.99,,Hardback,,,,
172,"2018-01-11 01:13:50","Absolutely Beautiful Things",9781840916935,"Anna Spiro","In Absolutely Beautiful Things, successful designer Anna Spiro shows you how to create an interior that's just right for you. To her, it's all about the mix, not the match, and, with her help, you'll find beauty in unexpected places. She'll give you the confidence to put together a layered and very individual home using elements you love, and make you see your old belongings in a new light. As well as lavish photographs of rooms Anna has created, she shares many of her secrets from a life in decorating, gives practical details on how to work with pattern and colour, and provides a room-by-room guide to furniture choice. 'I always endeavour to create happy, interesting, layered and uplifting spaces. That means mixing everything: colour and pattern, old and new, square and round, quirky and conservative. It's the imperfections and surprises that make a space interesting'.",,,224,"208 x 277 x 28mm | 1,290g","06 Oct 2015","Octopus Publishing Group","London, United Kingdom",English,,"c190 photographs",1840916931,"11,243",3.6,US$36.96,,"Anna Spiro is a Brisbane-based interior designer with a passion for vibrant colour. In addition to running her renowned interior design practice and shop, Black & Spiro, Anna is the author of an internationally acclaimed blog, Absolutely Beautiful Things. She has a flair for layering fabrics and textiles with antiques and special one-off pieces to create a diverse and inspiring space full of individual charm.",Hardback,"Conran Octopus Ltd",,,
173,"2018-01-11 01:14:00","Tips for Vintage Style",9780091900380,"Cath Kidston","Cath Kidston's easy style conjures up a way of life that many aspire to but few achieve. Described in the ""Times"" as 'the other domestic goddess', and in the ""Daily Telegraph"" as 'the woman who made cabbage roses funky, and delivered nursery prints, polka dots and candy stripes to modern bohemia', he look is desirable and accessible. ""Tips for Vintage Style"" distills the essence from Vintage Style, giving you the ultimate book of hints for your home. Covering kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, sitting rooms and even home offices, Cath's practical and inspirational advice will show you the smallest steps can make the biggest differences. You will see the best ways to use up leftover wallpaper and fabric, discover how to make your bathroom a haven, get tips on the best places to find the best old furniture and kitchenware - in short you will learn how to create a home that will be the envy of all your friends.",,"""Cath Kidston's easy style is such a joy. She has an ability to make the most ordinary things seem pretty"" -- Rita Konig * The Independent *",192,"118 x 154 x 14mm | 258.55g","30 Oct 2004","Ebury Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"Illustrations, color",0091900387,"16,068",3.69,US$10.98,US$14.95,"One of Britain's leading and most loved designers, Cath Kidston is best known for her vintage-inspired, cheerful prints for the home. She opened her first shop in Notting Hill in 1993; the company now owns 15 shops and concessions in the UK and two in Japan. Cath has published two previous books and has a very successful stationery line. She lives in London.",Paperback,"Ebury Press",,,
174,"2018-01-11 01:14:06","The Interior Design Reference & Specification Book",9781592538492,"Linda O'shea","In the world of interior design, thousands of bits of crucial information are scattered across a wide array of sources. The Interior Design Reference & Specification Book collects the information essential to planning and executing interior projects of all shapes and sizes, and distills it in a format that is as easy to use as it is to carry. You'll also find interviews with top practitioners drawn across the field of interior design. --Fundamentals provides a step-by-step overview of an interiors project, describing the scope of professional services, the project schedule, and the design and presentation tools used by designers. --Space examines ways of composing rooms as spatial environments while speaking to functional and life-safety concerns. --Surface identifies options in color, material, texture, and pattern, while addressing maintenance and performance issues. --Environments looks at aspects of interior design that help create a specific mood or character, such as natural and artificial lighting, sound and smell. --Elements describes the selection and specification of furniture and fixtures, as well as other components essential to an interior environment, such as artwork and accessories. --Resources gathers a wealth of useful data, from sustainability guidelines to online sources for interiors-related research.",,,288,"140 x 194 x 22mm | 539.99g","01 Jul 2013","Rockport Publishers Inc.","Gloucester, MA, United States",English,Reprint,"colour illustrations",1592538495,"13,525",4.2,US$20.75,US$25.00,"Linda O'Shea, CID, IIDA, LEED AP, is a professor and program coordinator of interior design within the Robert Busch School of Design at Kean University in Union, NJ. She has taught a variety of courses, including Sustainable Design Studio, Materials and Finishes, Introduction to Interior Design, and Design and the Built Environment. She received her BFA degree in visual and performing arts from Russell Sage College and her MFA in interior design from Colorado State University. Linda O'Shea, CID, IIDA, LEED AP, is a professor and program coordinator of interior design within the Robert Busch School of Design at Kean University in Union, NJ. She has taught a variety of courses, including Sustainable Design Studio, Materials and Finishes, Introduction to Interior Design, and Design and the Built Environment. She received her BFA degree in visual and performing arts from Russell Sage College and her MFA in interior design from Colorado State University.Chris Grimly is a principal at over, under (http: //www.overcommaunder.com), a Boston-based interdisciplinary practice with expertise in architecture, urban design, graphic identity, and publications.Mimi Love received a professional degree in architecture from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. She was the project coordinator for the renovation and expansion of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. She is currently a principal at Utile, Inc. (http: //www.utiledesign.com) in Boston, MA, focusing on interior renovation projects. Mimi Love received a professional degree in architecture from the University of Texas, Austin, in 1989. She was the project coordinator for the renovation and expansion of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. She is currently a principal at Utile, Inc. (http: //www.utiledesign.com) in Boston, MA, focusing on interior renovation projects.",Paperback,,,,
175,"2018-01-11 01:14:09","Creating the French Look",9781907563959,"Annie Sloan","Developed over hundreds of years, the French look reflects all tastes, from the cultivated grandeur of the chateau to the simplicity of rural living, and can be adapted to every home. Creating the French Look is divided into four styles: `Chateau', `Country', `Provencal' and `Parisian', and each ""look"" is applied to living rooms, kitchens, dining rooms, bedrooms and bathrooms plus outdoor living spaces. As well as describing each overall style, focusing on colours and fabrics, Annie Sloan emphasizes the details and accents required by each one, and, aided by 25 clearly explained step-by-step projects, shows how to achieve it. Among other things, she explains how to paint and distress furniture, and describes how to cover an armoire door with embroidered voile. Whatever interior you desire, this book will guide your choices from the grand statement of the painted armoire to the finishing touch of a little posy of lavender.",,,160,"212 x 252 x 14mm | 539.99g","31 Aug 2011","Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,Reprint,"300 col photographs",1907563954,"14,766",3.91,US$18.82,US$19.95,"Annie Sloan is one of the world's most respected experts in the field of decorative painting. She runs highly successful workshops from her store in Oxford, England, and teaches in the US and Europe. She has written over 10 books, including Quick and Easy Paint Transformations, and has featured prominently on PBS television and the Homes & Gardens TV channel. She sells her own ranges of paint and French fabric, as well as vintage furniture, much of it from France, where she has a home. The author is based in Oxford.",Paperback,"CICO BOOKS",,,
176,"2018-01-11 01:14:13","Elements of Style",9781476744872,"Erin T. Gates","Elements of Styleis a uniquely personal and practical decorating guide that shows how designing a home can be an outlet of personal expression and an exercise in self-discovery. Drawing on her ten years of experience in the interior design industry, Erin combines honest design advice and gorgeous professional photographs and illustrations with personal essays about the lessons she has learned while designing her own home and her own life-the first being: none of our homes or lives is perfect. Organized by rooms in the house, Elements of Styleinvites readers into Erin's own home as well as homes she has designed for clients. Fresh, modern, and colourful, it is brimming glamour and style as well as advice on practical matters from choosing kitchen counter materials to dressing a bed with pillows, picking a sofa, and decorating a nursery without cartoon characters. You'll also find an extensive Resource and Shopping Guide that provides an indispensable a roadmap for anyone embarking on their first serious home decorating adventure. With Erin's help, you can finally make your house your home.",,"""Flip through the pages of interior designer Erin Gates's fun and informative new book..., and you'll feel like you're stepping into her new house."" * Metro US * ""Jam-packed with loads of fab photos as well as practical advice, lessons learned, and insight from Gates's own home renovation, as well as her work with her other design clients. * HGTV blog * ""Its pages are full of gorgeous photographs and funny personal essays about renovation disasters and marital spats over what table to choose. Warning: You may be roped into rearranging the furniture."" * RealSimple.com * ""Her advice is glamorous yet practical and often served up with humor."" * Washington Post * ""[Gates] has a knack for combining practical advice [...] with humorous reflection on mistakes and lessons learned over the course of her 10-year career as an interior designer."" * BookPage * ""Style is subjective, but the elements of style are pretty universal. Few people know this better than blogger-turned-interior designer and author Erin Gates. She wrote the book on it--literally."" * Huffington Post Home * ""Filled with her trademark no-holds-barred prose, charming anecdotes, and practical advice."" * Houston Chronicle * ""Of course I loved seeing the hints of David Hicks in her beautiful design work, but what struck me the most was the undecoratorly way this book is written. Hugely refreshing. Erin is a joy both in print and in person."" -- India Hicks ""The thing I've always loved about Erin's blog is how well she balances the personal and professional while making it fun and informational. She has translated that seamlessly into this book, where you get a sense of not only who she is but also expert design advice. And her cheetah print stairs had me at hello... followed by a quick ""damn gurl!"" -- Emily Henderson, HGTV host ""Erin's book is a breath of fresh air, just like her witty, engaging, and informative blog. And unlike most decorating books, I actually read this one!"" -- Holly Becker, author of Decor8 ""Erin Gates's incredible eye for beauty is matched only by her funny, raw, and honest voice. I am such a fan of this gifted woman and this gorgeous book."" -- J. Courtney Sullivan, author of The Engagements and Maine ""All the elements are here: glamour, wit, and inspiration. Tuck in for a stylish life."" -- Jonathan Adler",336,"185.42 x 233.68 x 27.94mm | 1,065.94g","23 Oct 2014","SIMON & SCHUSTER","New York, United States",English,,"510 color photos and 80 color illustrations t-o",1476744874,"1,290",3.9,US$28.35,US$35.00,"Erin T. Gates is a Boston-based interior designer, blogger, and curator of all things stylish. She began her blog, Elements of Style, in 2007 and formed her own design company, Erin Gates Design, shortly thereafter. Her work and writing have been featured in publications, such as O, The Oprah Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, House Beautiful, Boston Magazine, Inside Weddings, and Better Homes and Gardens. She is married to Andrew Gates and is mom to her two furry kids, Baxter and Oliver. They live in Boston. Visit Erin at ElementsofStyleBlog.com.",Hardback,,,,
177,"2018-01-11 01:14:19","Spoon's Carpets",9781910931493,"Kit Caless","If you've ever been in a Wetherspoon's (and who hasn't), you've probably looked down and noticed the brilliantly-hued carpet beneath your feet. But that carpet isn't just for disguising spilt drinks... Each Wetherspoon has a carpet that is unique and bespoke, with a design inspired by the history of the building, its locale or the name of the pub. Thanks to the hit blog 'Wetherspoon's Carpets' - which posed the important question 'are any two Wetherspoon carpets the same?' - these tapestried hymns to British boozers have become a cultural sensation. Now, Kit Caless has travelled the length and breadth of the UK, from Berkshire to Renfrewshire, Bradford to Bridgend, to photograph over 70 splendid carpets from Wetherspoons and meet some of the pubs' regulars. Each entry appears in all its glorious colour, along with Caless's witty and informative text on the inspiration for each carpet's design, the history of the pub and key facts about the branch and its regulars. Will your Spoons be there?",,"""This is a book that has `dad's stocking filler' written all over it."" * Crafts Magazine * ""I wouldn't bet against the frequently very funny Spoon's Carpets being a leftfield Christmas Humour hit."" -- Caroline Sanderson * Bookseller * ""[A] bizarrely brilliant celebration. Each location entry includes a photograph accompanied by Caless' entertaining and often quite surreal commentaries."" * Bookseller * ""He provides wistful and witty words on carpets, the people who walk on them and the buildings they are found in."" * Inapub * ""A lesson for all of us to look out for art in the unlikeliest of places."" * UK Press Syndication *",176,"184 x 192 x 17mm | 555g","06 Oct 2016","Vintage Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"Full colour photographs throughout",1910931497,"52,387",4.23,US$16.18,,"Kit Caless is a writer and broadcaster. He is a regular contributor to Vice magazine and to publications as varied as Architectural Digest, The Quietus and Ambit. He is co-founder and editor at Influx Press, a small independent pubisher of fiction and creative non-fiction. He lives in Hackney which is home to several excellent Wetherspoons.",Hardback,"SQUARE PEG",,,
178,"2018-01-11 01:14:28","Shades of Grey",9781849757126,"Kate Watson Smyth","Crammed with fascinating facts, expert advice, plenty of wit and humour and a wealth of essential information, 'Shades of Grey' will guide you through the minefield that is choosing exactly the right shade of grey paint. There's no doubt about it, grey is the shade of the moment. Chic restaurants, shops and homes are covered in it. There's not an interior decorating programme that doesn't feature it. And forget 50 shades - in fact the human eye can detect more than 500. As can the average paint chart. ""Everyone wants to paint their houses grey at the moment,"" says Karen Haller, a colour expert who advises clients on branding and colour psychology. ""But it's actually one of the most difficult colours to get right."" Get it wrong and a room will be cold and dark, possibly even energy-sapping. Get it right, however, and your home will look chic, sophisticated and modern. So how do we go about choosing the perfect hue? In 'Shades of Grey' Kate Watson-Smyth will help you find exactly the right shade for your space. Full of expert advice and essential information and spiced with a generous dash of humour, this book will guide you through the minefield that is choosing the perfect shade of grey paint.",,,176,"190 x 235 x 22.86mm | 841g","03 Nov 2016","Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"w. numerous col. figs.",1849757127,"11,163",3.76,US$29.12,US$29.95,"Kate Watson-Smyth is a journalist who has written about interiors for the Financial Times as well as the Independent and the Daily Mail. Her home has been featured in Livingetc, the Wall Street Journal and Corriere della Sera. She has many followers on Twitter, where she is often referred to as the 'goddess of grey'. Kate's blog, madaboutthehouse.com is the UK's No.1 Interiors blog (Vuelio, 2015) and she also runs an interior styling consultancy, Mad About Your House. This is her first book.",Hardback,,,,
179,"2018-01-11 01:14:35","A Beautiful Mess Happy Handmade Home",9780770434052,"Elsie Larson","Step inside the world of Elsie and Emma, the sisters behind the decor blog A Beautiful Mess. With tiny budgets and a crafty, can-do attitude, they overhauled each room in their first homes with DIY projects using family photos, vibrant fabrics, flea-market finds, and affordable furniture. Now, you can learn how to paint, craft, and decorate your way to a happy, bright space with distinct personality. In the same upbeat spirit and modern style found on their blog, you'll find fresh, all-new projects including: - An inspired geometric-pattern coffee table made of balsa wood - A hand-lettered statement wall featuring your favorite quote - A quick and easy electrical tape update for your refrigerator - A set of beautifully designed serving dishes And more! Packed with bonus styling tips from hanging the perfect gallery wall to making mismatched furniture work, Happy Handmade Home is design inspiration for personalizing your own space.",,,240,"200 x 252 x 22mm | 859.99g","26 Aug 2014","Random House USA Inc","NY, United States",English,,"175 colour photos",0770434053,"84,879",3.25,US$22.01,,"ELSIE LARSON and EMMA CHAPMAN are sisters and the founders of A Beautiful Mess (abeautifulmess.com), one of the largest DIY style blogs in the world. In addition to their website, they created the #1 bestselling app for photos, A Beautiful Mess, and are the authors of A Beautiful Mess Photo Idea Book. Elsie and Emma live in southern Missouri with their husbands and many dogs.",Paperback,"Bantam Books Inc",,,
180,"2018-01-11 01:14:38",Beautiful,9780847848928,"Mark D. Sikes","Modern and unfussy, Mark D. Sikes's interiors are classic takes on California indoor/outdoor living, with natural fibers and crisp coloration, informed and influenced by the fashion world where he began his career. In eight chapters, he explores approachable, stylish looks, from Blue and White Forever, which features indigos, stripes, batiks, and wicker in casual rooms such as porches and pool houses; to Time- less Neutrals, presenting semiformal rooms filled with chinoiserie, gilt, glass, mirrors, banquettes, and French chairs; to Garden Greens, featuring happy, casual family rooms and kitchens inspired by the garden with treillage woodwork, rattan, and cotton. There are also Beautiful Brights, colorful rooms that are eclectic, layered, and fun, with chintz, florals, and Middle Eastern influences; and Sun Faded Hues, rustic coastal rooms with weathered fabrics and furniture. Each chapter presents light-filled images of the designer's looks and offers the reader inspiration and advice. As famed film director Nancy Meyers writes in the book's foreword, this is a book that shows design lovers how classic can look fresh, how style and comfort go hand-in-hand.",,"""The book is filled with elegant, comfortable rooms layered with Sikes' trademark design elements -- cheerful blue-and-white porcelain, wicker and rattan, and fabrics in stripes, batik, and ikat patterns."" --Papercity Magazine ""A showcase of chic ideas for every home, Sikes's interiors are inspired by classic California living."" --The Society Diaries ""This is a book I know I will turn to again and again and I have no doubt that you will, too.""--La Dolce Vita ""Organized by color, each chapter examines Sikes' passion for certain colors . . . and demonstrates how the designer uses these colors to imbue a home's interiors with personality and style. Alongside images of Sikes' work, there are photos of vignettes and mood boards, all of which provide the reader with ample design inspiration."" --Peakofchic.com ""Sharing a glimpse into his world of California cool is his first book, Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style. . ."" --Modern Luxury Interiors (Atlanta) ""Fall must haves."" --La Dolce Vita ""We wrote about Mark Sikes in our prior summer issue and we continue to be inspired by his work. This is his first book--and it is a comprehensive look at his distinctive style, which derives from classic American motifs and traditions. Sikes presents ideas that are useable and adaptable for virtually any home, even if much of his aesthetic references classic California indoor/outdoor living, where he lives full time. He is an advocate for using natural fibers, choosing vivid colors, all the while remaining true to fashion as an inspiration, an arena where he began his successful career. Given his strong Hollywood connections, he had Nancy Meyers, the famed film director, write the foreword. She emphasizes that Sikes knows 'how classic can look fresh, how style and comfort go hand-in-hand'.""--Milieu Magazine ""Fall's Must Read Deisgn Books""--Forbes.com ""Mark D. Sikes makes America Beautiful (Rizzoli) again.""--Vanity Fair ""Meanwhile, his newly published first book, Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style, has an entire chapter dedicated to -- what else? -- blue and white. ($37, amazon.com) 'It works with everything, ' Sikes says, 'modern, eclectic, traditional.'""--House Beautiful ""The book offers a fresh take on American style.""--Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles ""Reese Witherspoon has ""Beautiful"" at the top of her stack""--New York Post ""Casually chic and unfussy, the applauded style of interior designer Mark D. Sikes is marked by his compositions of things with a forever appeal to make rooms livable. In Beautiful: All American Decorating and Timesless Style (Rizzoli), he chats companionably through eight chapters as he dissects his approachable style. ""Blue and White Forever"" features indigos, stripes, batiks and wicker found on porches and in pool houses. In 'Timeless Neutrals, ' chinoiserie, gilt glass and mirrors are married compatibly with Frencg chairs and furnishings. There are happy family rooms and kitchens in the ""Garden Greens"" chapter and color to make you smile in 'Beautiful Brights.' Most of all, this is a book for people who like to really settle into their spaces.""--360 West Magazine ""His buzzy blog--Mark D. Sikes: Chic People, Glamorous Places, Stylish Things (markdsikes.com)--inspired the idea for his first book. Rather than organizing chapters by projects, Sikes (whose clients include Reese Witherspoon and film director Nancy Myers) grouped them around his favorite color stories, such as 'Blue and White Forever' or 'Red My Way.' It's proof of how any type of hue can transform a room.""--Serendipity Magazine",256,"210 x 254 x 27.94mm | 1,406.14g","10 Apr 2017","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,,"230 colour photographs",0847848922,"3,732",3.67,US$40.17,US$45.01,"Mark D. Sikes began his career in visual merchandising at Banana Republic/GAP. After two successful decades, he launched his interior design business and immediately attracted national publicity in publications from Veranda to Architectural Digest. His lifestyle blog-Chic People, Glamorous Places, Stylish Things- has become an inspiration and resource for design lovers all over the world. Nancy Meyers is the director and screenwriter for several Hollywood blockbusters, including Something's Gotta Give, The Holiday, and It's Complicated.",Hardback,,,,
182,"2018-01-11 01:14:39","The Devil in the White City",9780553813531,"Erik Larson","The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the wonders of the world. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked: one was an architect, the other a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men together with a remarkable supporting cast of colourful characters, including as Buffalo Bill, George Ferris, Thomas Edison and some of the 27 million others who converged on the dazzling spectacle of the White City, are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century.",,"""Fuses history and entertainment to give the dramatic effect of a novel...this truth really is stranger than fiction"" * The New York Times * ""Erik Larson tracks [H H Holmes] with practised journalistic skill...Highly readable"" * Sunday Telegraph * ""Captures the spirit of an America bursting with pioneering drive...a gripping book"" * Independent on Sunday * ""An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction"" * Time Out * ""Bursting with so much vitality you half expect it to jump right out of your hands"" * Yorkshire Evening Post *",496,"128 x 196 x 34mm | 358.34g","01 Apr 2004","Transworld Publishers Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"B & W photos",0553813536,"7,636",3.98,US$15.11,,"Erik Larson is a prize-winning journalist and No.1 bestselling author of Isaac's Storm, The Devil in the White City, Thunderstruck, In the Garden of Beasts and in 2015, Dead Wake - about the sinking of the Lusitania in 1915. He lives in Seattle with his family.",Paperback,"Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)",,,
186,"2018-01-11 01:14:41","The Library",9780500342886,"James W. P. Campbell","This spectacular book is the first single volume to tell the story of the library as a distinct building type, all around the world. Throughout the ages, book collections have served to symbolize their owners culture and learning, and the wealthy and powerful have spent lavishly on buildings to house them. In its highest form the library became a total work of art, combining painting, sculpture, furniture and architecture into seamless, dramatic spaces. The finest libraries are repositories not just of books, but of learning, creativity and contemplation; they embody some of the highest achievements of humankind. This book recounts that history in text and images of truly outstanding quality.",,,328,"245 x 314 x 34mm | 2,290g","01 Oct 2013","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"292 illustrations, 275 in colour",0500342881,"30,746",4.42,US$86.66,,,Hardback,,,,
189,"2018-01-11 01:14:48","Healing Spaces",9780674057487,"Esther M. Sternberg","Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in ""Healing Spaces"", a look at the marvellously rich nexus of mind and body, perception and place. Sternberg immerses us in the discoveries that have revealed a complicated working relationship between the senses, the emotions, and the immune system. First among these is the story of the researcher who, in the 1980s, found that hospital patients with a view of nature healed faster than those without. How could a pleasant view speed healing? The author pursues this question through a series of places and situations that explore the neurobiology of the senses. The book shows how a Disney theme park or a Frank Gehry concert hall, a labyrinth or a garden can trigger or reduce stress, induce anxiety or instill peace. If our senses can lead us to a 'place of healing', it is no surprise that our place in nature is of critical importance in Sternberg's account. The health of the environment is closely linked to personal health. The discoveries this book describes point to possibilities for designing hospitals, communities, and neighborhoods that promote healing and health for all.","* Healing Places 	* Seeing and Healing 	* Sound and Silence 	* Cotton Wool and Clouds of Frankincense 	* Mazes and Labyrinths 	* Finding Your Way... 	*...and Losing It 	* Healing Thought and Healing Prayer 	* Hormones of Hope and Healing 	* Hospitals and Well-Being 	* Healing Cities, Healing World 	* Healing Gardens and My Place of Peace  	* Bibliography 	* Acknowledgments 	* Index","Even the ancients understood that some places had healing powers. But in the late 20th century, scientists began to study how space affects both mental and physical health for good and ill. NIH researcher Sternberg thoroughly chronicles research on the neural pathways that connect our sensory perception of our environment with our ability to heal...The conclusions--e.g., that noise induces stress, which can impede healing--seem intuitive and well known, but readers interested in neuroscience will learn much about the research on why this is the case. Publishers Weekly 20090316 What Sternberg does so skillfully is to stitch together an explanation as to how so many of the things we intuitively find relaxing, like yoga, or sitting by the sea, or in a bright airy room, affect how quickly we heal. She provides the science to back it up and explains it so engagingly that it's hard to resist sharing her conviction. -- Linda Geddes New Scientist 20090509 Healing Spaces [is] an exploration of environmental influences over the brain, the body and the course of mental and physical disease...Anyone who has ever felt peace descend in lovely surroundings will find a few seeds of explanation in her book. -- Abigail Zuger, M.D. New York Times 20090630 In this fascinating book, physician Esther M. Sternberg explores the intersection of architecture and medicine; the studies and conferences (primarily through the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture) and vast body of literature that reveals the extent to which our external environment plays a role in healing...Sternberg's findings are fascinating, some strange, some pure common sense--thought-provoking for both individuals and institutions. -- Susan Salter Reynolds Los Angeles Times 20090628 After this fascinating, engaging, and challenging read I'll think about the health consequences of where I am in a different way. -- Richard Mitchell The Lancet 20090704 Sternberg offers a fascinating study of the complex relationships between health and ""healing places.""...She makes the work of many pioneers in brain and behavioral research accessible to laypersons even as they rub elbows with such figures as Walt Disney, Frank Gehry, and the Dalai Lama...This is a fine, thoughtful volume. -- J. Quinan Choice 20100101",352,"138 x 208 x 26mm | 399.16g","30 Sep 2010","HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,,,0674057481,"34,432",3.84,US$23.69,,"Esther M. Sternberg, M.D., author of The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions, has done extensive research on brain-immune interactions and the effects of the brain's stress response on health. She was on the faculty at Washington University, St. Louis, prior to joining the National Institutes of Health in 1986.",Paperback,"The Belknap Press",,,
190,"2018-01-11 01:14:56","The Third Teacher",9780810989986,"OWP/P Architects","Created by an international team of architects and designers concerned about our failing education system, ""The Third Teacher"" explores the critical link between the school environment and how children learn. Written for anyone who has school-age children in their life, from educators and education decision-makers to parents and community activists, this book is intended to ignite a blaze of discussion and initiative about environment as an essential element of learning. Contributors include children's singer and advocate Raffi, author and creativity consultant Sir Ken Robinson, scientist and environmentalist David Suzuki, inventor James Dyson, and other experts who are working to create fresh solutions to problems and create a new blueprint for the future of education.",,,256,"182.88 x 254 x 25.4mm | 907.18g","23 Mar 2010",Abrams,"New York, United States",English,,"100 full-colour illustrations",0810989980,"83,292",4.05,US$30.99,US$32.50,"The Third Teacher is a collaboration between OWP/P Architects, VS Furtniture, and Bruce Mau Design. OWP/P Architects has offices in Chicago and Phoenix and has worked with more than 150 school clients to support their educational vision. VS Furniture is a 110-year-old manufacturer of educational furnishings based in Germany. Bruce Mau Design is a business and cultural design studio with offices in Toronto and Chicago.",Paperback,"Harry N. Abrams, Inc.",,,
192,"2018-01-11 01:15:00",Concrete,9780714863542,"Leonard Koren","This book is a celebration of concrete: collating fascinating and beautiful images of concrete structures from the breathtaking New York Guggenheim to coldly functional aircraft hangars, Concrete will engage anyone interested in architecture and encourage them to think about the sculptural qualities of buildings. Familiar icons by Le Corbusier and Tadao Ando are featured alongside vernacular structures such as petrol stations, vast power plants and London Zoo's famous penguin pool.",,"""Concrete is a beautifully designed book. It is also a thought-provoking exploration of an important subject.""-John Pawson ""What a surprising and beautiful book - a parade of amazing buildings.""-Peter York ""Yes, concrete can be cold and imposing - but as the 175 structures in the book attest, it can also be colorful, playful, and delicate.""-Wall Street Journal ""The eye candy here, from the graceful to the brash is enough to open the mind of any skeptic.""-Atlantic Cities ""Afresh look at [...] the world's most versatile and abundant building material... Urges us to reconsider its merits and its contribution to architecture... A global tour of inspiring and intriguing structures.""-Self Build & Design ""Concrete has acquired a reputation as a cheap and bland building material. This book sets the record straight, putting forward 100 years worth of elegant, exciting and at times poetic architectural masterpieces.""-David Nicholls, Daily Telegraph ""Superbly illustrated... Many of the world's best architectural photographers who have caught the play of light and shade, the elemental shapes, the smooth or artfully roughened surfaces to suggest an architecture of pristine, lasting beauty.""-Marcus Binney, The Times ""The sweeping survey of buildings featured in Concrete illustrates the material's chameleonlike versatility, from the Pantheon's coffered dome to Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye.""-ELLE Decor ""The book is a vivid reminder of the sheer endurance, unexpected delicacy, and humor of architecture's humble hero.""-Architectural Digest",240,"260 x 298 x 32mm | 1,859.97g","03 Sep 2012","Phaidon Press Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"175 colour",0714863548,"49,791",4.37,,,"William Hall trained at Central Saint Martins and began his career in the office of the minimalist architect John Pawson. Formerly a Design Director at Phaidon Press, Hall now runs his own design practice in London, working with clients such as Calvin Klein, Henry Moore Institute and Tate.Leonard Koren has written and designed a number of books including Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. In 1976, two years after studying architecture at UCLA, he founded WET, one of the premier avant-garde publications of the 1970s. He now consults on the subject of design, aesthetics, and communications. He lives in San Francisco.",Hardback,,,,
193,"2018-01-11 01:15:08","Australian War Memorial",9781742660127,"Nola Anderson","The Australian War Memorial in Canberra is one of Australia's most iconic institutions. Originally conceived during the turbulent years of the First World War, it was opened in 1941 and has grown to become one of the most important symbols of national identity. The Collection Book tells the story of the Memorial and the National Collection - one of the most significant collections of military history in the world. From the battlefields of Europe to peacekeeping operations and the current conflicts in the Middle East, the artefacts of almost a century of collecting are brought to life through the rich personal stories behind them. With specially commissioned photography, The Collection Book is a commemoration to all those who have served Australia and a tribute to the enduring qualities that forged its identity.",,,624,"215 x 275 x 62mm | 2,964g","15 May 2013","MURDOCH BOOKS","Millers Point, Australia",English,,,1742660126,"53,078",5,US$82.63,,"Nola Anderson is Assistant Director and Branch Head, National Collection, at the Australian War Memorial, responsible for the Memorial's vast collection of art, photography, film, sound, documents, and military heraldry and technology, spanning Australia's military history from the colonial period to recent conflicts. With over 20 years' experience at the Memorial, she has an in-depth knowledge of its collection, its history and the many stories that bring it to life. Nola has been a contributor to professional arts journals, has curated several exhibitions including the Memorial's Stolen Years, and was a Smithsonian Centre for Museum Studies Fellow at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.",Hardback,"PIER 9",,,
194,"2018-01-11 01:15:19","Beauty in Decay",9780955912146,RomanyWG,"""Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints."" This is the unspoken rule of urban explorers, who sometimes risk their safety, police records, and even their lives to explore abandoned buildings, sewers and storm drains, transit tunnels, utility tunnels, high-security areas of inhabited buildings, and even catacombs such as those in Chenobyl, Rome, Odessa and Naples. Although these urban explorers usually work solo or in small teams, they collectively put forth a ground cry against a modern culture that embraces the new, polished, uniform, and mundane. Beauty in Decay features the best in full-color, panoramic photographs from urban exploration or Urbex around the world. Overgrown industrial complexes, disused lunatic asylums, abandoned palaces and forgotten monasteries are showcased, and paired with clear-sighted, poetic text. Just who decides which doors are closed in our world and whose interests do they serve? Do we wish to be kept in the dark, permanently safe, free from either harm or adventure? For all of us there is a deep attraction to be found in opening these doors. They open a rift in our collected experiences and throw new light on the boundaries we've all been forced to accept. There is only one way to find out what's hidden behind these barriers. Sit back, hold on and surrender to your imagination as we unlock the door to an extraordinary unseen world of beauty in decay. What's the Story with Urban Exploration? It's easy to describe what an Urban Explorer does; they infiltrate into abandoned buildings and industrial sites and explore them, often taking photographs along the way. They don't steal, vandalise or even leave graffiti behind them. In fact their code of honour is reminiscent of the rambler's way: Take only pictures, leave only footprints. It is, on the other hand, not so easy to describe the whys and wherefores. Think back to your childhood for a moment and it all begins to make sense. Do you remember the terrifying yet seductive draw of the archetypal haunted house? Every neighbourhood and every childhood has one. At the very point we cross the border from childhood into adolescence we cross real physical borders too. It's the moment in our lives when we test the boundaries. We finally pluck up the courage to break into the haunted house and take a look around. You can probably remember your own experiences of this. And there will be at least one. The Urban Explorer feels that we, in the comfortable and over-protected 'first world' are living in an enforced and extended state of childhood. They have remembered that they are capable of having unmediated experiences of reality and they welcome the fear that may (or may not) come with those experiences. The fear itself is the gateway to go through. It's the gateway that leads for many to 'wonderland'. This is the world through the looking glass that in some dark corner of every soul, we are all looking for. The strange thing then is not that Urban Explorers exist; it's that the rest of us have forgotten that we are Urban Explorers too.",,"A visually stunning book, full of rich inspiring images providing a really interesting insight into the ethos of urban exlorers. Most photographers probably started out by taking photos of derelict buildings and abandoned places",192,"264 x 264 x 24mm | 1,378.91g","07 May 2012","Pro-Actif Communications","Darlington, United Kingdom",English,"3rd ed.","col. Illustrations",0955912148,"47,442",4.25,US$31.52,US$39.95,,Hardback,"Carpet Bombing Culture",,,
196,"2018-01-11 01:15:23",Siteless,9780262026307,"François Blanciak","An attempt to free architecture from site and program constraints and to counter the profusion of ever bigger architecture books with ever smaller content.Some may call it the first manifesto of the twenty-first century, for it lays down a new way to think about architecture. Others may think of it as the last architectural treatise, for it provides a discursive container for ideas that would otherwise be lost. Whatever genre it belongs to, SITELESS is a new kind of architecture book that seems to have come out of nowhere. Its author, a young French architect practicing in Tokyo, admits he ""didn't do this out of reverence toward architecture, but rather out of a profound boredom with the discipline, as a sort of compulsive reaction."" What would happen if architects liberated their minds from the constraints of site, program, and budget? he asks. The result is a book that is saturated with forms, and as free of words as any architecture book the MIT Press has ever published.The 1001 building forms in SITELESS include structural parasites, chain link towers, ball bearing floors, corrugated corners, exponential balconies, radial facades, crawling frames, forensic housing -- and other architectural ideas that may require construction techniques not yet developed and a relation to gravity not yet achieved. SITELESS presents an open-ended compendium of visual ideas for the architectural imagination to draw from. The forms, drawn freehand (to avoid software-specific shapes) but from a constant viewing angle, are presented twelve to a page, with no scale, order, or end to the series. After setting down 1001 forms in siteless conditions and embryonic stages, Blanciak takes one of the forms and performs a ""scale test,"" showing what happens when one of these fantastic ideas is subjected to the actual constraints of a site in central Tokyo. The book ends by illustrating the potential of these shapes to morph into actual building proportions.",,"In Siteless: 1001 Building Forms, French architect Francois Blanciak surrenders the usual anchors of function and site for an exercise in pure form. His astoundingly imaginative 1,001 designs could challenge architects and engineers for decades. * Santa Fe New Mexican * Imagine Learning from Las Vegas as illustrated by Chris Ware, and you'll get a sense of Francois Blanciak's marvelously inventive new book. * Metropolis *",128,"134.62 x 203.2 x 10.16mm | 294.83g","31 Mar 2008","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,,"1006 b&w illus.",0262026309,"56,293",4.15,US$17.96,US$18.95,"Francois Blanciak is an architect and Research Fellow at the University of Tokyo. He has worked for architectural firms in Los Angeles, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, and New York, with such architects as Frank Gehry and Peter Eisenman.",Paperback,"MIT Press",,,
198,"2018-01-11 01:15:27","Soviet Ghosts",9781908211163,"Rebecca Litchfield","Photographer Rebecca Litchfield captures many abandoned location's, which were either part of the Soviet Union or occupied satellite states during this period of history, including forgotten towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums & death camps across the former communist states. These photographs deliver a compelling narrative of both moral bankruptcy and flawed ideology. Featuring stunning imagery throughout, this compelling road-trip through the old USSR, breathes new life into these forgotten places, finding both beauty and meaning in their post-apocalyptic decay. Extended essays by Tristi Brownett, Neill Cockwill and Professor Owen Evans, offer considerable contextual depth to the locations imbuing them with a wealth of connection and wonder. By virtue of its holistic approach, the book also explores how and why these once thriving communities became abandoned, whether by natural disaster, man-made catastrophe or simply through the march of time.",,,192,"254 x 254 x 22.86mm | 1,292.73g","18 Nov 2014","Pro-Actif Communications","Darlington, United Kingdom",English,,"illustrations (colour)",1908211164,"39,496",4.12,US$33.64,US$39.95,"Rebecca Litchfield is a fine art photographer and a former Professional Photographer of the Year.",Hardback,"Carpet Bombing Culture",,,
199,"2018-01-11 01:15:37","Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture",9781780670096,"David Phillips","Detail in Contemporary Concrete Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern concrete architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 49 of the most recently completed and influential concrete designs for both residential and commercial architecture. The projects are presented in clear and concise layouts over four pages. All of the drawings are styled consistently and presented at standard architectural scales to allow for easy comparison. Each project is presented with colour photographs, site plans and sections and elevations, as well as numerous construction details. There is also descriptive text, detailed captions and in-depth information for each project. A bonus CD-ROM contains drawings from the book, in both EPS and DWG (generic CAD) formats.","COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS PleskowRael Architecture, Santa Monica Boulevard Transit Parkway, USA AMP Arquitectos, MAGMA, Spain Eastern Design Office, Crest Factory / House, Japan Barbosa & Guimaraes, Vodafone HQ, Spain Rafael de La-Hoz, Towers of Hercules, Spain SPASM Design Architects, Aon Insurance Headquarters, India Manthey Kula Architects, Palsbu Hydroelectric Power Station, Norway Aebi & Vincent Architekten, Umbau und Sanierung Schulheim Rossfeld, Germany JSA Architects, Shoreditch High Street / East London Line Extension, UK Hohensinn ArchiteKtur, Graz Hotel am Domplatz, Austria  CULTURAL BUILDINGS WHY Architecture, Grand Rapids Arts Museum, USA Nuno Ribeiro Lopes Capelinhos Vulcano Interpretation Centre, Portugal Massimiliano Fuksas, The Peres Peace House, Israel O'Donnell & Tuomey Architects, Irish Language and Cultural Centre, Ireland Santiago Calatrava, Palaude les Arts Reina Sofia, Spain UN Studio, Mumuth Music School, Graz, Austria Claus + Kaan, Cemetery Building & Crematorium, Belgium Rodrigo Cervino Lopez, Brumadinho Gallery, Brazil Diener & Diener Architekten, Music House for Instrumental Practice and Choral Rehearsal, Einsiedeln, Switzerland ERERAS Arquitectos, Private Library, Spain Bernard Tschumi, New Acropolis Museum, Greece BAAS-JORDI BADIA, Can Framis-Fundacio Vila Casas (Museum), Spain MLZD, The Historisches Museum Bern Extension, Switzerland CF Moller Architects, Darwin Centre, UK Pedro Pacheco + Marie Clement Museum of Luz, Portugal Steven Holl, Herning Art Centre, Norway Eduardo Souto de Moura, Paula Rego New Museum, Portugal Caruso St John, Nottingham Contemporary Arts Centre, UK Ellis Williams Architects, Mostyn Gallery, UK Valerio Olgiati, Atelier Bardill, Scharans, Germany Airas Architects and Henna Helander, Weegee Centre, Finland Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum, Japan Manuelle Gautrand, Lille Metropole Musee d'art Moderne, France Atelier Bow-Wow Four-Boxes Gallery, Japan  PUBLIC BUILDINGS AFF Architekten, Fichtelberg Mountain Hut, Germany Paul Bretz Architectes, Radar Tower, Luxembourg David Chipperfield Architects City of Justice, Spain LAN Architecture, Toy Library, France O'Donnell & Tuomey, Sean O'Casey Community Centre, Ireland Fernando Romero, Bridging Tea House, Mexico BAK Arquitectos Casa de Hormigon, Spain Becker Architekten, Hydro-electric Powerstation, Germany Foster & Partners Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi Zaha Hadid, Evelyn Grace Academy, UK  RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS Esudio Ramos, Las Lomas House, Argentina Paul Bretz Architectes House F, Austria Peter Stutchbury, Springwater, Australia Torafu Architects, House in Kohoku, Japan Clemens Bonnen and Amanda Schlaich, Infra Lightweight Concrete House, Germany Joseph N. Biondo, Equanimity House, USA",,224,"256.54 x 297.18 x 25.4mm | 1,564.89g","01 Dec 2012","Laurence King Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,700,1780670095,"78,952",4.14,US$40.25,US$50.01,"David Phillips graduated with an MA in fine art from the Royal College of Art and later studied architecture at London South Bank University. He has worked for a number of leading architecture and design companies in the UK. Currently he is a senior lecturer in design at the University of the Arts London. Megumi Yamashita is a journalist writing about architecture and design for various publishers in both the UK and Japan.",Hardback,,,,
202,"2018-01-11 01:15:40","Cities Without Ground",9781935935322,"Solom Wong","Hong Kong is a city without ground. This is true both physically (built on steep slopes, the city has no ground plane) and culturally (there is no concept of ground). Density obliterates figure-ground in the city, and in turn re-defines public-private spatial relationships. Without a ground, there can be no figure either. In fact, Hong Kong lacks any of the traditional figure-ground relationships that shape urban space: axis, edge, centre, even fabric. Cities Without Ground explores this condition by mapping three-dimensional circulation networks that join shopping malls, train stations and public transport interchanges, public parks and private lobbies as a series of spatial models and drawings. These networks form a continuous space of variegated environments that serves as a fundamental public resource for the city. The emergence of the shopping malls as spaces of civil society rather than of global capital as grounds of resistance comes as a surprise. This continuous network and the microclimates of temperature, humidity, noise and smell which differentiate it constitute an entirely new form of urban spatial hierarchy. Air particle concentration is both logical and counterintuitive: outdoor air is more polluted, while the air in the higher-end malls is cleaner than air adjacent to lower value retail programs. Train stations, while significantly cooler than bus terminals, have only moderately cleaner air. Boundaries determined by sound or smell (a street of flower vendors or bird keepers, or an artificially perfumed mall) can ultimately provide more substantive spatial boundaries than a ground. While space in the city may be continuous, plumes of temperature differential or air particle intensity demonstrate that environments are far from equal.",,,196,"140 x 200 x 10.16mm | 294.83g","27 Nov 2012","Oro Editions","San Rafael, United States",English,,"53 col photos, 47 col ills",1935935321,"78,984",4.23,US$16.29,US$30.00,"Jonathan D Solomon is Associate Dean at the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. His work explores public space and the contemporary city, through design projects such as Ooi Botos Gallery, a shophouse in a Hong Kong street market converted into a gallery for contemporary Chinese photographic art; research projects such as his 2004 book ""13 Projects for the Sheridan Expressway,"" the 26th volume in the Pamphlet Architecture series; curatorial projects such as 2010's ""Workshopping"" in the US Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale; and publication projects through 306090 books, where he has served as a founding editor since 2001. Solomon has taught design at the City College of New York and, as a Banham Fellow, at the University at Buffalo, as well as the University of Hong Kong, where he led the Department of Architecture as Acting Head from 2009 to 2012. He is a licensed architect in the State of Illinois and Member of the American Institute of Architects. Clara Wong is the co-author of Once Upon a Time... Monsterpieces of the 2000s!, which has been presented at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, and reviewed in the Architects' Journal, Archidose, Domus and A+. She currently practices architecture in Hong Kong, and is a LEED accredited professional and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Architects. She has been part-time assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong, where she has taught and coordinated the Summer Program 2010 and 2009, and is a frequent visiting critic. She is co-exhibitor at the Venice Biennale 2010 and Sao Paulo Biennale 2009 on the spaces and environments of Hong Kong shopping malls. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She received her Bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University School of Architecture, and graduated with accolades from the Princeton University Program in Visual Arts, focusing on Drawing and Painting. Adam Frampton is an architect who has been practicing at OMA since 2006. For three years, he was based in Rotterdam, working as a project leader responsible for numerous concept designs and competitions in the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and India. In addition, he was involved in the design of the Taipei Performing Arts Center, which won an open two-stage international competition in early 2009. He is currently located in Hong Kong as project leader for the development and realization of the project, which is scheduled for completion in 2015. His independent work on Hong Kong urbanism, in collaboration with Jonathan Solomon and Clara Wong, was exhibited in the 12th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2010). Prior to joining OMA, his analysis on the structural design of the World Trade Center, in collaboration with Guy Nordenson, was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and has been acquired into its permanent collection. His work has also been exhibited the Center for Architecture, New York, and the Van Alen Institute, New York. He holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University and is a registered architect In the Netherlands.",Paperback,,,,
204,"2018-01-11 01:15:49","Collage City",9780262680424,"Colin Rowe","This book is a critical reappraisal of contemporary theories of urban planning and design and of the role of the architect-planner in an urban context. The authors, rejecting the grand utopian visions of ""total planning"" and ""total design,"" propose instead a ""collage city"" which can accommodate a whole range of utopias in miniature.",,"Coming upon this book in rather a skeptical state of mind, I must say I found it intriguing, enlightening, brilliant, witty, and exasperating as it pursued its thesis with a species of grammatical acrobatics that I can only call arresting. This is a book about the ideologies of modern architecture, their philosophical origins, their manifestations, and the ways in which they are flawed. It is a book about architects who had and have conceptions about the ideal city, and it tries to reorient those conceptions from the utopia of a single vision to a more multivalent view of city form. -- Donald Appleyard * APA Journal *",192,"210 x 294 x 16mm | 598.74g","15 Mar 1984","MIT Press Ltd","Cambridge, Mass., United States",English,Reprint,,0262680424,"78,317",3.77,US$33.84,US$34.00,,Paperback,"MIT Press",,,
205,"2018-01-11 01:15:51","Walt Disney Imagineering",9781423107668,"The Imagineers","How can you make dreams come true? Or transform a fantasy into a colorful, exciting world that visitors can move through, touch, and enjoy? Such fabulous work is the daily business of Walt Disney's Imagineers, a core group of creative and highly skilled professional wizards who combine imagination with engineering to create the reality of behind the dreams that comprise the Disney theme parks. In this sequel to the best-selling Walt Disney Imagineering: A Behind-the-Dreams Look at Making the Magic Real, the Imagineers serve up another dose of magic with an even closer look at who they are, what they do, and how they do it, illuminating their theories and explaining the tools they use, and where and how they use them. Contained within this deluxe tome are rough drawings, conceptual models, and behind-the-scenes stories showcasing Disney's newest attractions and innovations from the inside out. There's also an exclusive peek inside the Research and Development Lab to see what new magic will soon be appearing. The Imagineers tell their own stories, as well as how they got there, what they do on a daily basis, what they show their friends in the parks, and how you can learn what it takes to become an Imagineer. Presented in a large, lavish format, this book is sure to be a must-have for every Disney collector.",,,192,"262 x 338 x 26mm | 1,800.75g","08 Jul 2011","Disney Book Publishing Inc.","New York, NY, United States",English,,"colour illustrations",1423107667,"54,944",4.55,US$54.95,US$59.99,,Hardback,"Disney Editions",,,
207,"2018-01-11 01:16:00","Bunker Archaeology",9781568980157,"Paul Virilio","Out of print for almost a decade, we are thrilled to bring back one of our most requested hard-to-find titlesphilosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio's Bunker Archeology. In 1994 we published the first English-language translation of the classic French edition of 1975, which accompanied an exhibition of Virilio's photographs at the Centre Pompidou. In Bunker Archeology, urbanist Paul Virilio turns his attentionand camerato the ominous yet strangely compelling German bunkers that lie abandoned along the coast of France. These ghostly reminders of destruction and oppression prompted Virilio to consider the nature of war and existence, in relation to both World War II and contemporary times. Virilio discusses fortresses and military space in general as well as the bunkers themselves, including an examination of the role of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, in the rise of the Third Reich.",,,216,"158 x 258 x 18mm | 598.74g","01 Apr 2009","PRINCETON ARCHITECTURAL PRESS","New York, United States",English,"2nd ed.","124 images",1568980159,"59,895",4.23,US$31.17,US$40.01,,Paperback,,,,
208,"2018-01-11 01:16:09","The Art of the Airport",9780711238411,"Alexander Gutzmer","Three quarters of a million people are in a plane somewhere right now. Many millions travel by air each day. For most of us, the experience of being in an airport is to be endured rather than appreciated, with little thought for the quality of the architecture. No matter how hard even the world's best architects have tried, it is difficult to make a beautiful airport. And yet such places do exist. Cathedrals of the jet age that offer something of the transcendence of flight even in an era of mass travel and budget fares. Here are twenty-one of the most beautiful airports in the world. The book features: Wellington International Airport, 'The Rock' shaped like the dangerous cliffs of a local legend Kansai International Airport, Renzo Piano's gigantic project built on three mountains of landfill Shenzhen International Airport, a manta ray shaped terminal putting this booming region on the map Daocheng Yading Airport, the world's highest civilian airport in the middle of the Tibetan mountains Chhatrapati Shijavi International Airport, rising from the slums of Mumbai like a Mogul palace Queen Tamar Airport, a playfully iconic modern airport nestled in the mountains of Georgia King Abdulaziz International Airport, the gateway to Mecca resembling a Bedouin city of tents Pulkovo Airport, mirroring the city of St Petersburg with bridges, squares and art Berlin-Tegel Airport, ultramodernity, 1970s style Copenhagen Airport, an icon from the golden age of air travel Franz Josef Strauss Airport, sober and easy to negotiate, Munich's model airport Paris Charles du Gaulle Airport, the brutalist icon that launched the career of airport architect Paul Andreu London Stansted Airport, Norman Foster's return to the golden age of air travel Lleida-Alguaire Airport, a relic of Catalonia's early 21st century building boom Madrid-Barajas Airport, Richard Rogers and Antonio Lamela's calm, bamboo-panelled Terminal 4 Marrakesh Menara Airport, a blend of 21st century construction and traditional Morrocan design Santos Dumont Airport, Rio de Janeiro's modernist masterpiece Carrasco International Airport, Rafael Vinoly's design inspired by the sand dunes of his native Uruguay Malvinas Argentinas International Airport, echoing the mountains and glaciers of Tierra del Fuego John F Kennedy International Airport, Eero Saarinen's glamorous jet-age TWA terminal Spaceport America, a vision of the future in the New Mexico desert","WLG Wellington, New Zealand    KIX Kansai, Japan    SZX Shenzen, China    DCY Dabba, Tibet    BOM Mumbai, India    XXX Queen Tamar, Georgia    JED Jeddah, Saudi Arabia    LED St Petersburg, Russia    TXL Berlin, Germany    CPH Copenhagen, Denmark    MUC Munich, Germany    CDG Paris, France    STN Stansted, UK    ILD Lleida, Spain    MAD Madrid, Spain    RAK Marrakech, Morocco    SDU Rio de Janeiro, Brazil    MVD Montevideo, Uruguay    USH Ushuaia, Argentina    JFK New York, USA    90NM Upham NM, USA",,192,"250 x 280 x 22.86mm | 1,406.14g","06 Oct 2016","Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0711238413,"109,199",4.14,US$31.16,US$35.00,"Alexander Gutzmer is the chief editor of the architecture magazineBaumeister and editorial director at the publisher Callwey. He also teaches at the Department of Corporate Communications at the Quadriga Hochschule Berlin. Laura Frommberg and Stefan Eiselin are business journalists and publishers of the largest German language blog on the subject of air travel: areotelegraph.com.",Hardback,,,,
209,"2018-01-11 01:16:15","All the Buildings in London",9780789331120,"James B. Gulliver-Hancock","All the Buildings in London is a love letter to London, told through James Gulliver Hancock's unique and charming drawings of the city's diverse architectural styles and streetscapes. Hancock's offbeat drawing style gives a sense of whimsical and delightful fun to his illustrations, while perfectly capturing each building's architectural details. This unusual combination of the artistic and the technical presents London's cityscape like never before. The book includes such beloved iconic buildings as St. Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace; the latest modern landmarks, such as the Shard and the London Eye; celebrated cultural institutions, such as the British Museum and Tate Modern; and other notable attractions, such as Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square, as well as the bridges and docks along the river Thames. Also featured are the everyday buildings that may not be famous but whose stylishness or eccentricity make up an important part of London and its architectural landscape. Londoners and tourists alike will savor this volume that uniquely celebrates the energy, spirit, and history of one of the greatest cities in the world.",,"-Hancock's illustrations are really pleasing to the eye, deftly capturing various iconic buildings around the city, and often supplying fun trivia tidbits alongside. It's a really enjoyable way to discover or revisit iconic landmarks such as Buckingham Palace, the Shard, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, and of course, Big Ben.--TYPO-GRAPHICAL.COM -For those who love to walk or bike, this book is a carry-along delight. Turn off Google Maps. Get lost in the book. Get found in the London you've never seen before. Hancock's quirky, humorous, and artful travelogue is a journey through an illustrator's wonderfully whacky mind.- -NeenahPaperBlog.com I love the simple and stylized look that James has used for his drawings. . . [All the Buildings in London] is a wonderful book for sketchbook lovers. I hope to see more in the future.--ParkaBlogs.com ""Hancock's illustrations are really pleasing to the eye, deftly capturing various iconic buildings around the city, and often supplying fun trivia tidbits alongside. It's a really enjoyable way to discover or revisit iconic landmarks such as Buckingham Palace, the Shard, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, and of course, Big Ben.""-TYPO-GRAPHICAL.COM ""For those who love to walk or bike, this book is a carry-along delight. Turn off Google Maps. Get lost in the book. Get found in the London you've never seen before. Hancock's quirky, humorous, and artful travelogue is a journey through an illustrator's wonderfully whacky mind."" -NeenahPaperBlog.com I love the simple and stylized look that James has used for his drawings. . . [All the Buildings in London] is a wonderful book for sketchbook lovers. I hope to see more in the future.""-ParkaBlogs.com ""Hancock s illustrations are really pleasing to the eye, deftly capturing various iconic buildings around the city, and often supplying fun trivia tidbits alongside. It s a really enjoyable way to discover or revisit iconic landmarks such as Buckingham Palace, the Shard, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, and of course, Big Ben.""""-TYPO-GRAPHICAL.COM"" ""For those who love to walk or bike, thisbook is acarry-along delight. Turn off Google Maps. Get lost in the book. Get found in the London you ve never seen before. Hancock s quirky, humorous, and artful travelogue is a journey through anillustrator s wonderfully whacky mind.""-""NeenahPaperBlog.com ""I love the simple and stylized look that James has used for his drawings. . . [""All the Buildings in London""] isa wonderful book for sketchbook lovers. I hope to see more in the future.""-""ParkaBlogs.com""""",64,"190 x 248 x 15.24mm | 544.31g","28 Nov 2017","UNIVERSE PUBLISHING","New York, United States",English,,"100 colour illustrations",0789331128,"82,358",4.16,US$19.30,US$19.95,"James Gulliver Hancock is an artist and illustrator. His work has been exhibited in galleries worldwide, and he has worked with a wide variety of high profile clients in advertising and publishing. He is the author of All the Buildings in New York.",Hardback,,,,
210,"2018-01-11 01:16:18",Brick,9780714868813,"William Hall","Brick is a fresh, insightful and surprising look at one of the world's most familiar and popular building materials. From the strange remains of the Ziggurat of Ur dating from 2100 BC, to formidable mills of the industrial revolution, the humble brick has been an architectural staple for centuries.The world's best architects have explored the qualities of brickwork. Alvar Aalto, Antoni Gaudi, Jorn Utzon, Frank Gehry, and Mies van der Rohe all built with the material, and bricks were integral to Frank Lloyd Wright's vision for an American vernacular in his Prairie Houses.Lesser-known newcomers have created some equally striking and memorable structures, from the stunning Winery Gantenbein - built by robotic arm - to the audacious Kantana Institute, an unprecedented vision in a Thai rainforest.Brick is a beautiful and informative visual exploration of a material that is often overlooked, and sometimes considered limiting, but is actually full of spectacular potential.",,"""Brick is a glorious, surprising and moving account of this, the first building material. It is a record of the depth of imagination that has been invested in clay over millennia and I loved it.""-Edmund de Waal ""Phaidon's recently released book Brick sees the oldest man--made building material with fresh eyes. Brilliant photography is accompanied by concise captions noting the design direction, date of construction and architect or designer involved, allowing the reader to closely study each image.""-Selectism ""In striking photographs and lucid text, Brick convincingly demonstrates the material's amazing range and possibility.""-Elle Decor ""In Brick, a handsome new volume by William Hall, the seemingly endless possibilities for the materiala s formal expression are given a thorough and visually stunning survey.""-Pin Up Magazine ""Sumptuous and intelligent.""-Metropolis Magazine ""A captivating chronicle of bricks in all their brilliance.""-House & Garden ""A store of knowledge for problem solving, construction and the concerns of urban planning.""-C-File Online ""To what curvaceous service has the banal rectangular solid been put... A hat-tip to the picture researchers: variety in bonding, mortar and colour, from Tudor chimneys to Burmese stupas, makes this well above par for the course.""-World of Interiors ""A rather beautiful tour around the strangest and most magnificent structures built from the humblest of materials. The book was described by Edmund de Waal as 'a record of the depth of imagination that has been invested in clay over millennia'.""-Crafts",224,"258 x 296 x 30mm | 1,739.97g","04 Jun 2015","Phaidon Press Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0714868817,"90,450",4.5,,,"William Hall trained at Central Saint Martins in London and began his career in the office of the minimalist architect John Pawson. Hall now runs his own design practice in London, working with clients such as Calvin Klein, the Henry Moore Institute and Tate. William is the author of Concrete, also published by Phaidon Press.",Hardback,,,,
211,"2018-01-11 01:16:20","The Empire of Death",9780500251782,"Paul Koudounaris","In this tour de force of original cultural history, Paul Koudounaris takes the reader on an unprecedented international tour of macabre and devotional architectural masterpieces in nearly 20 countries. This is the first book to bring together the world's most important charnel sites, ranging from the crypts of the Capuchin monasteries in Italy and the skull-encrusted columns of the ossuary in Evora in Portugal, to the strange tomb of a 1960s wealthy Peruvian nobleman decorated with the exhumed skeletons of his Spanish ancestors. Illustrated with specially taken photographs of sites rarely open to the public and forgotten archive images of others long destroyed, this mesmerising, shocking and deeply moving book is an essential memento mori for our modern age.",,"...an astounding achievement, both as a literary and photographic work. . . . an astounding achievement, both as a literary and photographic work. Koudounaris gracefully transcends mere ghastliness and ghoulishness to challenge cultural perceptions of death, both current and centuries old. The result is not only a highly original work of great visual beauty and rigorous scholarship but also a surprisingly intimate and tender meditation on what the author calls 'the dialogue with the dead.' The photos of the skulls alone justify the purchase.",224,"231.14 x 309.88 x 27.94mm | 1,519.53g","29 Dec 2011","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"421 illustrations, 290 in colour",0500251789,"15,161",4.54,US$42.57,US$50.01,,Hardback,,,,
212,"2018-01-11 01:16:24","Brunelleschi's Dome",9780099526780,"Ross King","Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. For over a century after work on the cathedral began in 1296, the proposed dome was regarded as all but impossible to build because of its enormous size. The greatest architectural puzzle of its age, when finally completed in 1436 the dome was hailed as one of the great wonders of the world. It has gone down in history as a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture. This book tells the extraordinary story of how the cupola was raised and of the dome's architect, the brilliant and volatile Filippo Brunelleschi. Denounced as a madman at the start of his labours, he was celebrated at their end as a great genius. His life was one of ambition, ingenuity, rivalry and intrigue - a human drama set against the plagues, wars, political feuds and intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence, the glorious era for which the dome remains the most compelling symbol. Brunelleschi's Dome was voted Non-Fiction Book of the Year by American Independent Booksellers.",,"""Compelling... professional jealousy, committee intrigue, feats of bluff and fascinating scraps of obsolete lore... Where Longitude had ocean wastes, Brunelleschi's Dome has vertigo"" * Spectator * ""As each novel feat of genius engineering flowers high above the ground, details of scandals and pranks blow up from the city streets to create an altogether enchanting tale"" -- Dava Sobel, author of Longitude ""An adventure yarn set on the wild frontiers of human knowledge... abounding with excellent stories"" * Financial Times * ""A wonderfully vivid little book"" * Daily Telegraph *",192,"130 x 196 x 16mm | 140.61g","05 Jul 2011","Vintage Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0099526786,"33,389",3.84,US$11.36,US$14.22,"Ross King is the author of the highly praised Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, as well as The Judgement of Paris and Leonardo and the Last Supper. He has also written two novels, Domino and Ex Libris. He lives in Oxford.",Paperback,VINTAGE,,,
213,"2018-01-11 01:16:34","England's Cathedrals",9781408706459,"Simon Jenkins","England's cathedrals are the nation's glory. They tower over its landscape, outranking palaces, castles and mansions. They attract roughly half the nation's population each year. For a millennium they have been objects of pilgrimage for those seeking faith, consolation and beauty. Still at the start of the twenty-first century, they remain unequalled in their size and splendour.More than any other English institution, cathedrals reflect the vicissitudes of history and should be treasured as such. They are custodians of culture and of the rituals of civic life. They offer welfare and relieve suffering. They uplift spirits with their beauty. In a real sense they are still what they were when first built a millennium ago, a glimpse of the sublime.Gloriously illustrated throughout, England's Cathedrals not only offers us a companion to England's Thousand Best Churches, it takes us on an enthralling tour of the nation and its history, through some of our most astonishing buildings.",,"An essential supplement to his marvellously illuminating guidebook England's Thousand Best Churches * Evening Standard * Inspired . . . encourages us to take a fresh look at the familiar * The Times *",384,"201 x 252 x 30mm | 1,414g","06 Dec 2016","Little, Brown Book Group","London, United Kingdom",English,,"70 colour photos, integrated",1408706458,"90,467",4.35,US$33.84,US$40.01,"Simon Jenkins is a journalist and author. He writes for the Guardian as well as broadcasting for the BBC. He has edited The Times and the Evening Standard and chaired the National Trust.",Hardback,"Little, Brown",,,
214,"2018-01-11 01:16:44","The Parthenon",9781846683497,"Mary Beard","The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning writer, reviewer and leading Cambridge classicist, tells the history and explains the significance of the Parthenon, the temple of the virgin goddess Athena, the divine patroness of ancient Athens.",,"Sophisticated, engaging ... she unravels the intricacies with the light and deft touch which characterises the whole book ... something for classicists and laymen alike -- Gavanndra Hodge * Independent on Sunday * The classical world still rouses fierce passions, and books like this help to make the study of ancient Greece urgent and relevant -- Tom Holland * New Statesman *",240,"129 x 198 x 14mm | 204g","20 May 2010","Profile Books Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,Main,"Illustrations, port.",1846683491,"79,795",3.96,US$11.02,US$13.54,"Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and the classics editor of the TLS. She has world-wide academic acclaim. Her previous books include the bestselling, Wolfson Prize-winning Pompeii, The Roman Triumph, The Parthenon and Confronting the Classics. Her blog has been collected in the books It's a Don's Life and All in a Don's Day. She is in the 2014 top 10 Prospect list of the most influential thinkers in the world.",Paperback,,,,
215,"2018-01-11 01:16:50","The Genius of Japanese Carpentry",9784805312766,"Azby Brown","The Genius of Japanese Carpentry tells the story of the 1200-year-old Yakushiji monastery in Nara and the dedicated modern-day craftsmen who are working to restore what has been lost to the depredations of time, fire and warfare. Although the full monastery reconstruction will not be completed until 2030, one of the primary temples, the Picture Hall, has been wholly restored employing the same woodworking technology used to create the original building. This new edition of an architectural classic is by Azby Brown-one of the world's leading experts on Japanese architecture. It contains a new preface and many new text materials and photographs-most of them now available in color for the first time. Azby Brown chronicles the painstaking restoration of the temple through extensive interviews with the carpenters and woodworkers along with original drawings based on the plans of master carpenter Tsunekazu Nishioka.An inspiring testament to the dedication of these craftsmen and their philosophy of carpentry work as a form of personal fulfillment, The Genius of Japanese Carpentry offers detailed documentation of this singular project and a moving reminder of the unique cultural continuity found in Japan.",,"""My main impression throughout reading this book has been one of head shaking and disbelief, and sheer amazement at the ingenuity of Japanese carpenters current and old. If you have any interest in carpentry, timber framing, woodworking, or even Japanese history, I highly recommend this book"" -The Year of Mud blog",160,"226 x 288 x 24mm | 1,059.98g","07 Jan 2014","Tuttle Publishing","Boston, United States",English,"Revised,Hardcover with Jacket","approx. 140 b&w, 67 color photos plus 83 drawings throughout",4805312769,"71,143",4.38,US$28.05,,"Azby Brown is the director of KIT Future Design Institute in Tokyo. After studying architecture and sculpture at Yale College, Brown entered the Department of Architecture of the University of Tokyo under a grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education. After completing his Ph.D., he became an associate professor of architectural design at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology. He is the author of Just Enough, Small Spaces, The Japanese Dream House, and The Very Small Home. He lives in Tokyo.",Hardback,,,,
216,"2018-01-11 01:16:53","How to Read a Church",9781844130535,"Professor Richard Taylor","'[a] gem of a book' Spectator Churches and cathedrals were originally built to be read. They are alive with images and symbols. But today few people, including regular visitors, truly understand the wealth of meaning in what they find there. How to Read a Church is a fascinating guide for anybody who wants to know more about what they see in a church or cathedral. It explains the significance of church layout, the symbolism of key scenes and the importance of details such as the use of colours and letters. It is an essential guide to the history, meanings and messages of these beautiful buildings and the treasures they contain.",,"""For church crawlers or occasional visitors who want to know how to read a church properly, Richard Taylor's gem of a book is the answer"" * The Spectator * ""A handy crash course in church literacy"" -- Christopher Howse * Daily Telegraph * ""This intriguing guide will make any church visit a more enriching trip"" * Good Book Guide * ""fascinating and highly informative reading"" * Heritage Today * ""a truly fascinating guide"" * Good Times *",272,"134 x 200 x 26mm | 340.2g","03 Jul 2003","Ebury Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,"8 Illustrations, unspecified",1844130533,"131,334",3.82,US$18.59,,"Richard Taylor was born in 1967. He studied English at Oxford University and Law at London University, and now lives and works in South Yorkshire. He has lectured on Christian symbolism to people of many faiths and those of none. He is the presenter of the acclaimed BBC TV series 'Churches: How to Read Them', inspired by this book.",Hardback,"Rider & Co",,,
217,"2018-01-11 01:16:59","Cathedral: the Story of Its Construction",9780395316689,"David MacAuley","""This marvelous book recreates the building of a French Gothic cathedral from the hewing down of half a forest to the placement of the last sheet of lead on the spire. Macaulay uses voluminous knowledge and pen-and-ink sketches accompanied by a brief clear narrative."" -- Time",,"""This marvelous book recreates the building of a French Gothic cathedral from the hewing down of half a forest to the placement of the last sheet of lead on the spire. Macaulay uses voluminous knowledge and pen-and-ink sketches accompanied by a brief clear narrative."" Time Magazine",80,"226.06 x 302.26 x 7.62mm | 408.23g","01 Nov 1988","ATLANTIC BOOKS","Kent, United Kingdom",English,,"Illustrations, unspecified",0395316685,"121,858",4.25,US$15.34,,,Paperback,,,,
218,"2018-01-11 01:17:01","Brunelleschi's Dome",9781620401934,"Ross King","On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore--already under construction for more than a century--was announced: ""Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month of September."" The proposed dome was regarded far and wide as all but impossible to build: not only would it be enormous, but its original and sacrosanct design shunned the flying buttresses that supported cathedrals all over Europe. The dome would literally need to be erected over thin air. Of the many plans submitted, one stood out--a daring and unorthodox solution to vaulting what is still the largest dome (143 feet in diameter) in the world. It was offered not by a master mason or carpenter, but by a goldsmith and clockmaker named Filippo Brunelleschi, then forty-one, who would dedicate the next twenty-eight years to solving the puzzles of the dome's construction. In the process, he did nothing less than reinvent the field of architecture. Brunelleschi's Dome is the story of how a Renaissance genius bent men, materials, and the very forces of nature to build an architectural wonder we continue to marvel at today. Denounced at first as a madman, Brunelleschi was celebrated at the end as a genius. He engineered the perfect placement of brick and stone, built ingenious hoists and cranes (among some of the most renowned machines of the Renaissance) to carry an estimated 70 million pounds hundreds of feet into the air, and designed the workers' platforms and routines so carefully that only one man died during the decades of construction--all the while defying those who said the dome would surely collapse and his own personal obstacles that at times threatened to overwhelm him. This drama was played out amid plagues, wars, political feuds, and the intellectual ferments of Renaissance Florence-- events Ross King weaves into the story to great effect, from Brunelleschi's bitter, ongoing rivalry with the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti to the near catpure of Florence by the Duke of Milan. King also offers a wealth of fascinating detail that opens windows onto fifteenth-century life: the celebrated traditions of the brickmaker's art, the daily routine of the artisans laboring hundreds of feet above the ground as the dome grew ever higher, the problems of transportation, the power of the guilds. Even today, in an age of soaring skyscrapers, the cathedral dome of Santa Maria del Fiore retains a rare power to astonish. Ross King brings its creation to life in a fifteenth-century chronicle with twenty-first-century resonance.",,,194,"140 x 208 x 16mm | 200g","13 Aug 2013","Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","New York, United States",English,Reprint,"Line drawings, black and white; Illustrations, black and white",1620401932,"100,777",3.84,US$14.22,US$16.00,"Ross King is the highly praised author of Leonardo and The Last Supper, Brunelleschi's Dome (the Book Sense Nonfiction Book of the Year in 2000), Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, The Judgment of Paris, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power, and two novels, Ex Libris and Domino. He lives outside Oxford in England.",Paperback,,,,
219,"2018-01-11 01:17:05","The Temple in Man",9780892810215,"R.A.Schwaller De Lubicz","This book contains the first published results of Schwaller's 12 years of research at the temple of Luxor and its implications for interpreting the symbolic and mathematical processes of the Egyptians through their sacred architecture.?","The Temple in Man Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man Translator's Foreword Preface Introduction Definitions Chapter I. A Hypothesis and It's Evolution Chapter II. Significance of the Crown of the Skull Chapter III. Reflections on a Philosophy of Measure Chapter IV. The Plan Chapter V. Orientation Chapter VI. The Temple in Man Chapter VII. The Crossing: Egyptian Mentality Chapter VIII. The Egyptian Canon for a Standing Man Conclusions",,132,"140 x 220 x 11mm | 220g","14 Jan 2000","Inner Traditions Bear and Company","Rochester, VT, United States","English, French","Original ed.",52ill.,0892810211,"153,375",4.23,US$12.59,US$12.96,"R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887--1961) was one of the most important philosophers, mathematicians, and Egyptologists of this century. His elucidation of the temple at Luxor and his presentation of the Egyptian understanding of a special quality of innate consciousness form a bridge that links the sacred science of the Ancients to its rediscovery in our own time.",Paperback,,,,
220,"2018-01-11 01:17:07","Tiny Churches",9780749577681,"Dixe Wills","While travelling all over Britain on his push bike, non-flying travel writer Dixe Wills is forever popping into old churches to look around, grab a moment of tranquility or just to shelter from the elements. Extending his love of all things tiny into yet another area, this book is his guide to 60 of the loveliest and most diminutive churches that Britain has to offer, many of which are known only to locals or tourists who are simply lucky enough to stumble across them. Each church is so tiny that only about 30 people could fit comfortably inside, and each is open to the public. Representing a unique slice of British local history and attitudes, tiny churches are the great survivors of the world. Unlike grand cathedrals, they were built to serve more humble ends, but they withstood centuries of religious unrest (and the Victorian 'church improvers') to survive into this most irreligious of centuries. Today, scattered all over Britain, these atmospheric places retain the essence of what they were when the stonemasons, labourers, smiths, carpenters and glaziers were corralled together to build them.",,,320,"150 x 210 x 30.48mm | 793.79g","01 Jan 2017","AA PUBLISHING","Basingstoke, United Kingdom",English,,"120 Colour photographs",0749577681,"217,744",4.14,US$23.49,US$31.96,"Dixe Wills is author of numerous books including our own At Night and the sister books in this series, Tiny Islands and Tiny Stations. A travel writer and journalist focusing on eco-friendly travel and the British Isles, he frequently contributes articles to the Guardian, Observer, The Ecologist, Countryfile Magazine and Esquire.",Hardback,"Automobile Association",,,
221,"2018-01-11 01:17:16","Abandoned Churches of Ireland",9781848899100,"Tarquin Blake","This latest book by Tarquin Blake documents eighty abandoned Church of Ireland churches, preserving a record of fragile religious ruins. Their history, dating back to early Christianity in Ireland, paints a stark portrait of a Protestant aristocracy and a Catholic majority. Under the 1801 Act of Union, the Church of Ireland was united with the Church of England. Following this about GBP1 million (100 million in today's money) was spent building over 700 Protestant churches. The Church of Ireland was the Established Church and Protestantism the official religion. Most Irish resented the Church of Ireland, a minority church controlled by Englishmen, unsympathetic and friends of the landlords. As Protestant congregations declined in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries an attempt was made to keep churches open by uniting parishes. Eventually non-existent congregations forced closure of many churches. Valuables were removed, churches deconsecrated and abandoned. Blake's haunting images of crumbling ruins and history of the churches tell another fascinating story of troubled times.",,,348,"219 x 277 x 19mm | 1,101g","28 Jan 2016","The Collins Press","Cork, Ireland",English,,,1848899106,"164,268",5,US$37.97,US$50.01,"Tarquin Blake, architectural explorer, photographer and historian, is author of Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, Ancient Ireland and Haunted Ireland and of the website www.AbandonedIreland.com. He has extensively explored the architectural relics of Ireland and his passion is unravelling and documenting the mysteries of lost heritage. He lives in County Cork.",Hardback,,,,
222,"2018-01-11 01:17:19","Medieval Graffiti",9780091960414,"Matthew Champion","For centuries carved writings and artworks in churches lay largely unnoticed. So archaeologist Matthew Champion started a nationwide survey to gather the best examples. In this book he shines a spotlight on a forgotten world of ships, prayers for good fortune, satirical cartoons, charms, curses, windmills, word puzzles, architectural plans and heraldic designs. Drawing on examples from surviving medieval churches in England, the author gives a voice to the secret graffiti artists: from the lord of the manor and the parish priest to the people who built the church itself. Here are strange medieval beasts, knights battling unseen dragons, ships sailing across lime-washed oceans and demons who stalk the walls. Latin prayers for the dead jostle with medieval curses, builders' accounts and slanderous comments concerning a long-dead archdeacon. Strange and complex geometric designs, created to ward off the `evil eye' and thwart the works of the devil, share church pillars with the heraldic shields of England's medieval nobility.",,"""Rare, lovely glimmers of everyday life in the Middle Ages."" -- Dan Jones * The Sunday Times * ""While rigorous in its scholarship - packed full of information and insights which have come from research pursued over many years and collected by a dedicated team of surveyors - it is eminently readable."" -- William Anderson, University of Melbourne * Peregrenations Journal *",272,"144 x 206 x 28mm | 406g","01 Mar 2016","Ebury Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,,,009196041X,"101,329",4.19,US$19.92,US$27.94,"Matthew Champion studied history and landscape archaeology at the University of East Anglia. As a freelance archaeologist he is widely regarded as England's leading expert on medieval graffiti inscriptions, and has worked with organisations such as English Heritage and the National Trust, as well as writing and lecturing extensively upon the subject. Matthew is currently Project Director of the multi-award winning Norfolk and Suffolk Medieval Graffiti Survey - and sometimes wonders why he doesn't have a real job. He lives in Fakenham, Norfolk.",Hardback,"Ebury Press",,,
223,"2018-01-11 01:17:28","The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages",9780500300527,"Alain Erlande-Brandenburg","All over Europe, from Westminster to Rouen, the cathedrals of the Middle Ages still stand. This book explores the world of the medieval master mason. How were these structures built when only primitive machinery was available? Who initiated and designed them? Who built and paid for them?",,,176,"120 x 174 x 12mm | 240.41g","27 Mar 1995","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,"182 illustrations, 44 in colour",0500300526,"167,746",3.6,,,,Paperback,,,,
224,"2018-01-11 01:17:30","Rice's Church Primer",9781408807521,"Matthew Rice","The countryside, towns and cities of Britain are full of churches. They represent some of the most iconic, beautiful and occasionally bizarre buildings in the country. They have a lot to say about our history, our art and our ideas. But how do you read them? Through charming illustrations, Rice's Church Primer reveals the basic grammar and vocabulary of church architecture throughout the United Kingdom. As Matthew Rice says, 'Once you can speak any language, conversations can begin, but without it communications can only be brief and brutish. The same is the case with Architecture: an inability to describe the component parts of a building leaves one tongue-tied and unable to begin to discuss what is or is not exciting, dull or peculiar about it.' Rice's Church Primer explains the language of architecture in churches, from the restrained Norman style of William the Conqueror to the gilded excesses of the Baroque. The primer begins with an explanation of the basic 'Grammar' of churches: elevation, plan, fronts, vaults and towers. This allows the reader to easily understand what follows. Next comes the 'Vocabulary' of styles in chronological order, from ancient Saxon churches to modern cathedrals. Each period covers component parts like doors, windows, towers, pews, panelling and pulpits. Finally, there is a map pinpointing some of the best churches around the country, so you can practise your newfound fluency in real life. With Matthew Rice's elegant and witty illustrations to guide you, suddenly you'll understand why naves are necessary, why towers are built as tall as possible and why sometimes even the most respectable church needs a good flying buttress.",,"The perfect stocking filler for the ecclesiastical enthusiast * House & Garden * The words are as engaging as the illustrations, for Mr Rice is a wordsmith as well as a penman, and manages, through both skills, to bring an understanding of the development of church architecture within reach of any reader whose depth of ignorance is matched by the breadth of their curiosity. -- Alan Titchmarsh * Sunday Telegraph * Charming, wittily illustrated ... Definitely one to slip into the glove apartment * Saga * Delightful * Country Life * Beautifully illustrated throughout ... It's easy to not only be enlightened but also delighted by Rice's drawings, which border on impish and quirky at times ... This is a delightful book, a welcoming introduction that's perfect for anyone who doesn't know their Perpendicular from their Decorated * BBC Countryfile *",224,"146 x 202 x 22mm | 479.99g","29 Aug 2013","Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","London, United Kingdom",English,,Colour,1408807521,"150,940",4.51,US$20.60,US$24.95,"Matthew Rice is the acclaimed author and illustrator of Rice's Architectural Primer; you might also have seen his work in Country Life, on his own calendar or on much of his wife Emma Bridgewater's pottery. He lives in Oxford and Norfolk.",Hardback,,,,
225,"2018-01-11 01:17:40","Ars Sacra",9783833151408,"Rolf Toman","Christianity is the most widespread religion in the world. ARS SACRA pays the due tribute to its art and architecture; a comprehensive compendium presenting just under 2000 years of Christian art, from early Christianity to the present day, with an abundance of illustrations. These include high quality photographs in XXL-format, making this an opulent feast for the senses. This glorious tome impresses with the detail views specifically fitted for the format, which allows the viewer to come within grasp of the displayed objects, often even closer than in reality, and to leisurely indulge in the details. Excellently researched texts take the reader on a tour through the epochs and highlight the specific changes in the sacral art, architecture, and culture over the centuries. ARS SACRA as the standard work is all in one: fascinating glorious tome, comprehensive compendium, and substantial textbook.",,"ARS SACRA, MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW - ""A magnificent feast for the eye, ""Ars Sacra"" presents its reader with unforgettable vistas of Christian art history and accomplishment.""",800,"383.54 x 528.32 x 106.68mm | 10,908.84g","01 Nov 2010","Ullmann Publishing","Konigswinter, Germany",English,,"More than 2,000 full-colour illustrations",3833151404,"189,955",4.9,US$444.69,,"Rolf Toman has worked as an independent art publisher for various international publishing houses for several decades. He authored and edited many acclaimed publications on art history and spirituality.",Hardback,,,,