book_x_author.id,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,author.id,author.ts,author.title,author.content
110,82,"2018-01-11 01:04:55",Bauhaus,9783836560146,"Magdalena Droste","Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus school developed a revolutionary approach that fused fine art with craftsmanship and engineering in everything from architecture to furniture, typography, and even theater. Originally headed by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus counted among its members artists and architects such as Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, and Marcel Breuer. In 1930, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took over as the leader, but soon after, in 1933, the Nazi government shut down the school. During its fourteen years of existence, Bauhaus managed to change the faces of art, architecture, and industrial design forever and is still hugely influential today.",,,96,"210 x 260 x 12.7mm | 544.31g","01 Sep 2015","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany",English,,,3836560143,"17,204",3.33,US$16.51,,,Hardback,,,,,110,"2018-01-11 01:04:55","Peter Gössel",
111,83,"2018-01-11 01:05:04","A Global History of Architecture",9780470402573,"Mark M. Jarzombek","The award-winning First Edition of A Global History of Architecture was a publishing event that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed and studied. This Second Edition surpasses the first with a lavish new design, illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs in full color, and even more maps and diagrams detailing global interconnections. The signature drawings of Francis D.K. Ching are more informative than ever, updated with scale, annotation, and function added where needed. This revision is sure to remain the most relevant book on the topic.","Preface.    Early Cultures.     Ritual Centers.     3500 BCE.  Beginnings of China's Civilization.  Niuheliang Ritual Center.  Mesopotamia.  Khirokitia.  Grain and Metal.  Catal Huyuk.  Early Indus Settlements.  Eridu and Uruk.  Pre- and Early-Dynastic Egypt.  European Developments.     2500 BCE.  The Indus Ghaggar-Hakra Civilization.  Mohenjo-Daro.  Early Empires of Mesopotamia.  Ziggurat at Ur.  Margiana.  Domestic Architecture.  Egypt: The Old Kingdom.  Pyramids at Giza.  Valley Temple of Khafre.  Architecture and Food.  Stonehenge.  Megalithic Temples of Malta.  First Civilizations of the Americas.  Caral.  El Paraiso.     1500 BCE.  Shang Dynasty China.  The Minoans and Knossos.  Egypt: The New Kingdom.  Karnak.  Abu Simbel.  Egyptian Columns.  Egyptian Design Methods.  Hittite Empire.  Hattusas.  Mycenaean Civilization.  Treasury of Atreus.  Ugarit and Mari.  Poverty Point.  Civilization of the High Andes.  Salinas de Chao.     800 BCE.  Olmecs.  San Lorenzo.  La Venta.  Chavin de Huantar.  Zhou Dynasty China.  The Ritual Complex.  The Aryan Invasion and Varanasi.  The Iron Age.  The Etruscans.  Etruscan Religion.  Etruscan Temples.  Greece: The Geometric Period.  Emergence of the Greek Temple Form.  Temple of Poseidon.  Saba/Sa'abia.  Temple of Solomon.  Kingdom of Kush.  Neo-Assyrian Empire.  Babylon.     400 BCE.  Achaemenid Dynasty.  Pasargadae.  Greece and the Mediterranean.  The Greek Temple.  Greek Architecture and Language.  Telesterion at Eleusis.  Delphi.  Temple of Apollo at Delphi.  Ionic Order.  The Parthenon.  Erectheum.  Athenian Propylaea.  The Hellenistic Age.  Delos.  Priene.  Pergamon.  Sanctuary of Athena at Lindos.  Ptolemies.  Temple of Horus.  Temple of Apollo at Didyma.  Mauryan Dynasty.  Asokan Pillars.  Barabar Hills Caves.  Late Olmec Centers.  The Early Mayas.  China: The Warring States Period.  Xianyang Palace.  Tomb of Zeng Hou Yi.  The Founding of Rome.  Pompeii.  Temple of Fortuna at Praeneste.  The Roman Urban Villa.  Republican Tombs.  Tholoi Tombs.  Bribacte.  Augustan Rome.  Forum of Augustus.  Vitruvius.  Corinthian Capitals.  Post-Augustan Rome.  Northern Palace at Masada.  Palace of Domitian.  The Colosseum.  Imperial Rome.  Rock-Cut Tombs.  Petra.  Development of Mahayana Buddhism.  Sanchi Complex.  Abhayagiri Vihara.  Junnar Caves.  Caitya Hall at Kondivte.  Taxila: The Gandharan Cosmopolis.  Qin Dynasty China.  Tomb of the First Emperor.  Great Wall of China.  Shaft Tombs of Teuchitlan.  Nakbe.  El Mirador.     200 CE.  Roman Empire.  The Roman Theater.  The Pantheon.  Hadrian's Villa.  Roman Vertical Surface.  Roman Baths.  Diocletian's Palace.  Baalbek.  The Parthian Empire.  Aksum.  Amaravati Stupa.  Caitya Hall at Karli.  Kushan.  Takht-i-Bahi.  Anuradhapura.  Han Dynasty China.  Han Tombs.  Mingtang-Biyong Ritual Complex.  Moche and Nazca Civilizations.  North Amazon Societies.  Nazca Lines.  Teotihuacan.  Temple of the Feathered Serpent.  Ohio's Hopewell Mounds.     400 CE.  The Sassanian Empire.  Zoroastrian Fire Temples.  Ajanta Caves.  Establishment of Chinese and Central Asian Buddhism.  Yungang Caves.  Mogao Caves.  Mahabodhi Temple.  Sigiriya.  Hindu Renaissance.  The Pyu, Mon, and Funan.  Oc Eo.  Mithraism.  Emergence of Christianity.  Martyria.  St. Peter's in Rome.  First Baptisteries.  Post-Constantinian Age.  Alahan Monastery.  Tomb of King Theodoric.  Zapotecs of Oaxaca.  Monte Alban.  Kofun Period: Japan.     600 CE.  Tikal.  Tiwanaku.  Age of Justinian.  St. Vitale, Ravenna.  Hagia Sophia.  Byzantine Capitals.  Armenian Architecture.  St. Hripsime.  Vishnu Deogarh and Elephanta.  Durga Temple and the Five Rathas.  Shore Temple at Mamallapuram.  Southeast Asia.  My Son.  Sui and T'ang Dynasties.  Daming Palace.  Songyue Temple Ta (Pagoda).  Nara Period: Japan.  Buddhism's Arrival in Korea and Japan.  Horyu-ji.     800 CE.  Chang'an.  Nanchan and Foguang Monasteries.  Korean Buddhism.  Rise of Islam.  Dome of the Rock.  Umayyad Mosque.  Baghdad.  Great Mosque of Samarra.  Great Mosque of Cordoba.  Rajasimhesvara and Virupaksha Temples.  Kailasnath at Ellora.  Mahaviharas at Nalanda and Somapura.  Indonesia at a Crossroads.  Borobudur.  Candi Prambanam.  Samye, Tibet.  Hindu Kingdoms of Cambodia.  Bakong.  Ghana.  Byzantine Empire.  Theotokos Tou Libos.  Europe and the Carolingians.  Plan of St. Gall.  The Palatine Chapel.  Mayan City-States.  Copan.  Quirigua.  Guayabo.     1000 CE.  Mayan Uxmal.  Cahokia.  Serpent Mound.  Pueblo Bonito.  Rise of the Rajput Kingdoms.  Sun Temple at Modhera.  Chandellas.  Khandariya Mahadeva Temple.  Tantrism.  Vastu-Shastras.  Orissa and Lingaraja Temple.  Jains.  Jain Temples at Mt. Abu.  Cholamandalam.  Rajarajeshwara Temple (Dakshinameru).  Polonnaruwa.  Song Dynasty China.  Sage Mother Hall.  Iron Pagoda.  Mu-Ta.  Dulesi Monastery.  Pure Land Buddhism.  Byzantine Revival.  Kievan Russia.  Armenia.  Sanahin Complex.  Ottonian Germany.  Speyer Cathedral.  The Normans.  Durham Cathedral.  Canterbury Cathedral.  Cefalu Cathedral.  Pilgrimage Churches.  Dover Castle.  Tuscany.  Cathedral of Pisa.  Baptistery of Parma.  Seljuk Turks.  Sultan Han.  First Madrasas.  Great Mosque of Isfahan.  The Fatimids.  Muqarnas.  Mosque at Qayrawan.  Almoravid Dynasty.  Medieval Scandinavia.     1200 CE.  Vrah Vishnulok (Angkor Wat).  Angkor Tom and Preah Khan.  Kingdom of Pagan.  Sanju-sangen-do.  Itsukushima Shrine.  Southern Song Dynasty.  Yingzhao Fashi.  The Mongolian Empire.  Yuan Dynasty China.  Delhi.  Tughlaqabad.  Quwwat-ul-Islam.  Tomb of Ghias-ud-Din Tughlaq.  Qutb Minar.  Sun Temple at Konarak.  Hoysalas.  Vadakkunnathan Temple.  Africa.  The Mamluk Sultanate.  Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela.  The Great Zimbabwe.  Mosques of Mali.  Europe: The High Middle Ages.  Fontenay Abbey.  Cathedral Design.  Amiens Cathedral.  Notre-Dame of Reims.  Mendicant Orders.  Castel del Monte.  Exeter Cathedral.  Italian Town Halls.  Siena.  Republic of Novgorod.  Nasrid Sultanate.  Toltec Empire.  Chichen Itza.     1400 CE.  End of the Steppe Invasions.  Ming Dynasty China.  The Forbidden City.  Mount Wudang.  Temple of Heaven.  Joseon Dynasty, Korea.  Muromachi Japan.  Kinkakuji.  Ginkakuji.  Ottoman Empire.  Beyazit Medical Complex.  Topkapi Palace.  Timurid Dynasty.  Deccan Sultanates.  Friday Mosque of Gulbarga.  Pandua.  Jami Masjid of Ahmedabad.  Chittor Fort.  Ayutthaya.  The Republic of Venice.  Mamluk Sultanate.  Mausoleum Complex of Sultan Qaitbay.  Cathedral of Florence.  Florentine Loggias.  Italian Renaissance.  San Lorenzo.  Rucellai Palace.  Pienza.  Sant'Andrea at Mantua.  Villa Medici.  Miracle Churches.  Santa Maria della Consolazione.  St. Peter's Basilica.  Vatican Belvedere.  The French Chateaux.  The Americas.  The Hopis.  New England Societies.  Tenochtitlan.  The Incas.  Machu Picchu.     1600 CE.  Tokugawa Shogunate.  Nikko Toshogu.  Nijo-jo.  Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Imperial Villa).  Ryoanji.  Ming Tombs.  Potala Palace.  Voyages of Zheng He.  The Mughals.  Humanyun's Tomb.  Fatehpur Sikri.  Buland Darwaza.  Diwan-i-Khas.  Rauza-I-Munavvara (Taj Mahal).  Vijayanagara.  Bijapur.  Palace of Thanjavur.  Isfahan.  Suleymaniye Complex.  The Dogon of Mali.  Italian High Renaissance.  Campidoglio.  Il Redentore (Church of the Savior).  Palladian Villas.  Villa Rotonda.  Spanish Conquest of America.  Atrios.  Santo Domingo.  Il Gesu.  El Escorial.  Uffizi Gallery.  Villa Farnese.  St. Peter's Basilica.  Baroque Italy.  Sant'Andrea al Quirinale.  St. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.  St. Peter's Square.  San Filippo Neri.  Place Royale.  Kremlin's New Churches.  Church of the Ascension.  Amsterdam.  Amsterdam Town Hall.  Elizabethan England.  Hardwick Hall.  Banqueting House.     1700 CE.  Colonialism.  Colonial Forts.  Haciendas.  Brazilian Haciendas.  Italian Masserie.  Coffeehouses.  French Culture of Empire.  Hotels.  Place Vendome.  East Facade of the Louvre.  Chateau de Versailles.  Hotel des Invalides.  Basilica of the Invalides.  L'Observatoire de Paris.  England: House of Stuart.  St. Paul   s Cathedral.  Blenheim Palace.  St. Mary Woolnoth.  Spread of the Baroque.  Facade of Santiago de Compostela.  St. Petersburg.  Bavarian Baroque.  Neresheim.  Sans Souci.  Georgian Architecture.  Chiswick House.  King's Chapel, Boston.  Stowe Gardens.  Nurosmaniye Mosque.  Qing Dynasty China.  Yuanmingyuan.  Qingyi Garden.  Edo, Kyoto's Odoi, and Shimabara.  Joseon Dynasty, Korea.  Mallas of Nepal.  Nayaks of Madurai.  Constantia.     1800 CE.  Japan: Edo Period.  Kanamaru-za.  Emperor Qianlong.  Chengde.  European Architecture: An Introduction.  Neoclassicism.  Robert Adam.  Syon House.  Piranesi and Romanticism.  Strawberry Hill.  Marc-Antoine Laugier.  St. Genevieve.  Le Petit Trianon.  Salt Works of Chaux.  The French Revolution.  Bibliotheque Nationale.  Napoleonic Cemeteries.  Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand.  Bank of England.  Neoclassicism in the United States.  Washington, DC.  Royal Pavilion.  Romantic Nationalism.  Altes Museum.  Jaipur and the End of the Mughal Empire.  Darbar Sahib.  Dakhma.  Colonial Calcutta: The Esplanade.  Writers' Building.  St. John's Church.  Government House.  Metcalfe Hall.  Khorezm.  Wat Pra Kaew.  The Industrial Revolution.  Lowell, Massachusetts.  Albert Dock.  Panoptic Prisons.  Workhouses.  The Shakers.  August Welby Pugin.  Greek Revival.  Tennessee State Capitol.  Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.  Architectural Preservation.  Bibliotheque St. Genevieve.  Synagogues.  John Ruskin.     1900 CE.  Victorian England.  The Reform Club.  The Athenaeum.  Public Sector Architecture.  London Law Courts.  Railroad Stations.  National Museums.  World Fairs.  The Passage.  Victorian Domestic Architecture.  Central Park.  Ecole des Beaux-Arts.  Paris and Georges-Eugene Haussmann.  Colonial Bombay.  The Chettinad Mansions.  Henry Hobson Richardson.  Al-Rifa   i Mosque.  Arts and Crafts Movement.  William Morris and William R. Lethaby.  Indo-Saracenic Style.  Shingle Style.  Arts and Crafts in California.  The Bungalow.  Campus Architecture in the United States.  Art Nouveau.  Maison Tassel.  City Beautiful Movement.  Rise of Professionalism.  European Ports.  Garden City Movement.  Changing Global Economy.  Skyscrapers.  Wrigley Building.  Casa Batllo.  Frank Lloyd Wright.  Taliesin East.  Walter Burley Griffin.  Colonial Africa.  International Beaux-Arts.  Kyoto National Museum.  Myongdong Cathedral.  Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Company Building.  25b, rue Franklin.  Adolf Loos.  The Factory Aesthetic.  Deutsche Werkbund.  Concrete.  Garnisonskirche.  Expressionism.  Czech Cubists.  New Delhi.  Gunnar Asplund.  Hollyhock House.  Dutch Kampung.  De Stijl Movement.  Friedrichstrasse Office Building.  Russian Constructivism.  Tatlin's Tower.  Soviet Pavilion.  The Bauhaus.  Le Corbusier.  Villa Savoye.  Lovell House.     1950 CE.  Modernism.  Weissenhof Siedlung.  Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne.  Pavilion Suisse.  Barcelona Pavilion.  Buckminster Fuller.  Palace of the Soviets.  Mombasa.  Rockefeller Center.  Czechoslovakia.  Ankara.  Israeli Modernism.  Japanese Pavilion.  Villa Mairea.  Usonian Houses.  Fallingwater.  Brazilian Modernism.  Italian Fascist Architecture.  Casa del Fascio.  German Fascist Architecture.  Saynatsalo Town Hall.  Illinois Institute of Technology Library Building.  Farnsworth House.  Eames House.  Yale University Art Gallery.  Brasilia.  Chandigarh.  Secretariat and High Court.  Assembly Building.  Ahmedabad.  Chapel at Ronchamp.  Guggenheim Museum.  Touba.  Ekistics.  Architecture of Prestige.  Sydney Opera House.  Eero Saarinen.  Caribbean Modernism.  Seagram Building.  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.  Uruguayan Modernism.  National Schools of Art, Havana.  Salk Institute.  Sher-e-Banglanagar.  Metabolism.  Brutalism.  Archigram.  Alternative Architecture.  Post-Corbusier India.  University of Ibadan.  Postmodernism.  Postmodern Museums.  The Preservation Movement.  The Postmodern, Non-Western World.  Magney House.     Globalization Takes Command.  Afterword.  Glossary.  Bibliography.  Photo Credits.  Index.",,864,"218.44 x 276.86 x 43.18mm | 2,494.75g","26 Jan 2011","John Wiley and Sons Ltd","Chichester, United Kingdom",English,"2nd ed.",,0470402571,"75,199",4.28,,,"Francis D.K. Ching is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous architecture and design books, including Architectural Graphics; Architecture: Form, Space, and Order; A Visual Dictionary of Architecture; Interior Design Illustrated; and Building Construction Illustrated, all from Wiley. Mark Jarzombek is Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT, as well as author of several books. Vikramaditya Prakash is Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington and the author of several academic publications.",Hardback,"John Wiley & Sons Ltd",,,,111,"2018-01-11 01:05:04","Mark M. Jarzombek",
112,83,"2018-01-11 01:05:04","A Global History of Architecture",9780470402573,"Mark M. Jarzombek","The award-winning First Edition of A Global History of Architecture was a publishing event that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed and studied. This Second Edition surpasses the first with a lavish new design, illustrated throughout with drawings and photographs in full color, and even more maps and diagrams detailing global interconnections. The signature drawings of Francis D.K. Ching are more informative than ever, updated with scale, annotation, and function added where needed. This revision is sure to remain the most relevant book on the topic.","Preface.    Early Cultures.     Ritual Centers.     3500 BCE.  Beginnings of China's Civilization.  Niuheliang Ritual Center.  Mesopotamia.  Khirokitia.  Grain and Metal.  Catal Huyuk.  Early Indus Settlements.  Eridu and Uruk.  Pre- and Early-Dynastic Egypt.  European Developments.     2500 BCE.  The Indus Ghaggar-Hakra Civilization.  Mohenjo-Daro.  Early Empires of Mesopotamia.  Ziggurat at Ur.  Margiana.  Domestic Architecture.  Egypt: The Old Kingdom.  Pyramids at Giza.  Valley Temple of Khafre.  Architecture and Food.  Stonehenge.  Megalithic Temples of Malta.  First Civilizations of the Americas.  Caral.  El Paraiso.     1500 BCE.  Shang Dynasty China.  The Minoans and Knossos.  Egypt: The New Kingdom.  Karnak.  Abu Simbel.  Egyptian Columns.  Egyptian Design Methods.  Hittite Empire.  Hattusas.  Mycenaean Civilization.  Treasury of Atreus.  Ugarit and Mari.  Poverty Point.  Civilization of the High Andes.  Salinas de Chao.     800 BCE.  Olmecs.  San Lorenzo.  La Venta.  Chavin de Huantar.  Zhou Dynasty China.  The Ritual Complex.  The Aryan Invasion and Varanasi.  The Iron Age.  The Etruscans.  Etruscan Religion.  Etruscan Temples.  Greece: The Geometric Period.  Emergence of the Greek Temple Form.  Temple of Poseidon.  Saba/Sa'abia.  Temple of Solomon.  Kingdom of Kush.  Neo-Assyrian Empire.  Babylon.     400 BCE.  Achaemenid Dynasty.  Pasargadae.  Greece and the Mediterranean.  The Greek Temple.  Greek Architecture and Language.  Telesterion at Eleusis.  Delphi.  Temple of Apollo at Delphi.  Ionic Order.  The Parthenon.  Erectheum.  Athenian Propylaea.  The Hellenistic Age.  Delos.  Priene.  Pergamon.  Sanctuary of Athena at Lindos.  Ptolemies.  Temple of Horus.  Temple of Apollo at Didyma.  Mauryan Dynasty.  Asokan Pillars.  Barabar Hills Caves.  Late Olmec Centers.  The Early Mayas.  China: The Warring States Period.  Xianyang Palace.  Tomb of Zeng Hou Yi.  The Founding of Rome.  Pompeii.  Temple of Fortuna at Praeneste.  The Roman Urban Villa.  Republican Tombs.  Tholoi Tombs.  Bribacte.  Augustan Rome.  Forum of Augustus.  Vitruvius.  Corinthian Capitals.  Post-Augustan Rome.  Northern Palace at Masada.  Palace of Domitian.  The Colosseum.  Imperial Rome.  Rock-Cut Tombs.  Petra.  Development of Mahayana Buddhism.  Sanchi Complex.  Abhayagiri Vihara.  Junnar Caves.  Caitya Hall at Kondivte.  Taxila: The Gandharan Cosmopolis.  Qin Dynasty China.  Tomb of the First Emperor.  Great Wall of China.  Shaft Tombs of Teuchitlan.  Nakbe.  El Mirador.     200 CE.  Roman Empire.  The Roman Theater.  The Pantheon.  Hadrian's Villa.  Roman Vertical Surface.  Roman Baths.  Diocletian's Palace.  Baalbek.  The Parthian Empire.  Aksum.  Amaravati Stupa.  Caitya Hall at Karli.  Kushan.  Takht-i-Bahi.  Anuradhapura.  Han Dynasty China.  Han Tombs.  Mingtang-Biyong Ritual Complex.  Moche and Nazca Civilizations.  North Amazon Societies.  Nazca Lines.  Teotihuacan.  Temple of the Feathered Serpent.  Ohio's Hopewell Mounds.     400 CE.  The Sassanian Empire.  Zoroastrian Fire Temples.  Ajanta Caves.  Establishment of Chinese and Central Asian Buddhism.  Yungang Caves.  Mogao Caves.  Mahabodhi Temple.  Sigiriya.  Hindu Renaissance.  The Pyu, Mon, and Funan.  Oc Eo.  Mithraism.  Emergence of Christianity.  Martyria.  St. Peter's in Rome.  First Baptisteries.  Post-Constantinian Age.  Alahan Monastery.  Tomb of King Theodoric.  Zapotecs of Oaxaca.  Monte Alban.  Kofun Period: Japan.     600 CE.  Tikal.  Tiwanaku.  Age of Justinian.  St. Vitale, Ravenna.  Hagia Sophia.  Byzantine Capitals.  Armenian Architecture.  St. Hripsime.  Vishnu Deogarh and Elephanta.  Durga Temple and the Five Rathas.  Shore Temple at Mamallapuram.  Southeast Asia.  My Son.  Sui and T'ang Dynasties.  Daming Palace.  Songyue Temple Ta (Pagoda).  Nara Period: Japan.  Buddhism's Arrival in Korea and Japan.  Horyu-ji.     800 CE.  Chang'an.  Nanchan and Foguang Monasteries.  Korean Buddhism.  Rise of Islam.  Dome of the Rock.  Umayyad Mosque.  Baghdad.  Great Mosque of Samarra.  Great Mosque of Cordoba.  Rajasimhesvara and Virupaksha Temples.  Kailasnath at Ellora.  Mahaviharas at Nalanda and Somapura.  Indonesia at a Crossroads.  Borobudur.  Candi Prambanam.  Samye, Tibet.  Hindu Kingdoms of Cambodia.  Bakong.  Ghana.  Byzantine Empire.  Theotokos Tou Libos.  Europe and the Carolingians.  Plan of St. Gall.  The Palatine Chapel.  Mayan City-States.  Copan.  Quirigua.  Guayabo.     1000 CE.  Mayan Uxmal.  Cahokia.  Serpent Mound.  Pueblo Bonito.  Rise of the Rajput Kingdoms.  Sun Temple at Modhera.  Chandellas.  Khandariya Mahadeva Temple.  Tantrism.  Vastu-Shastras.  Orissa and Lingaraja Temple.  Jains.  Jain Temples at Mt. Abu.  Cholamandalam.  Rajarajeshwara Temple (Dakshinameru).  Polonnaruwa.  Song Dynasty China.  Sage Mother Hall.  Iron Pagoda.  Mu-Ta.  Dulesi Monastery.  Pure Land Buddhism.  Byzantine Revival.  Kievan Russia.  Armenia.  Sanahin Complex.  Ottonian Germany.  Speyer Cathedral.  The Normans.  Durham Cathedral.  Canterbury Cathedral.  Cefalu Cathedral.  Pilgrimage Churches.  Dover Castle.  Tuscany.  Cathedral of Pisa.  Baptistery of Parma.  Seljuk Turks.  Sultan Han.  First Madrasas.  Great Mosque of Isfahan.  The Fatimids.  Muqarnas.  Mosque at Qayrawan.  Almoravid Dynasty.  Medieval Scandinavia.     1200 CE.  Vrah Vishnulok (Angkor Wat).  Angkor Tom and Preah Khan.  Kingdom of Pagan.  Sanju-sangen-do.  Itsukushima Shrine.  Southern Song Dynasty.  Yingzhao Fashi.  The Mongolian Empire.  Yuan Dynasty China.  Delhi.  Tughlaqabad.  Quwwat-ul-Islam.  Tomb of Ghias-ud-Din Tughlaq.  Qutb Minar.  Sun Temple at Konarak.  Hoysalas.  Vadakkunnathan Temple.  Africa.  The Mamluk Sultanate.  Rock-Cut Churches of Lalibela.  The Great Zimbabwe.  Mosques of Mali.  Europe: The High Middle Ages.  Fontenay Abbey.  Cathedral Design.  Amiens Cathedral.  Notre-Dame of Reims.  Mendicant Orders.  Castel del Monte.  Exeter Cathedral.  Italian Town Halls.  Siena.  Republic of Novgorod.  Nasrid Sultanate.  Toltec Empire.  Chichen Itza.     1400 CE.  End of the Steppe Invasions.  Ming Dynasty China.  The Forbidden City.  Mount Wudang.  Temple of Heaven.  Joseon Dynasty, Korea.  Muromachi Japan.  Kinkakuji.  Ginkakuji.  Ottoman Empire.  Beyazit Medical Complex.  Topkapi Palace.  Timurid Dynasty.  Deccan Sultanates.  Friday Mosque of Gulbarga.  Pandua.  Jami Masjid of Ahmedabad.  Chittor Fort.  Ayutthaya.  The Republic of Venice.  Mamluk Sultanate.  Mausoleum Complex of Sultan Qaitbay.  Cathedral of Florence.  Florentine Loggias.  Italian Renaissance.  San Lorenzo.  Rucellai Palace.  Pienza.  Sant'Andrea at Mantua.  Villa Medici.  Miracle Churches.  Santa Maria della Consolazione.  St. Peter's Basilica.  Vatican Belvedere.  The French Chateaux.  The Americas.  The Hopis.  New England Societies.  Tenochtitlan.  The Incas.  Machu Picchu.     1600 CE.  Tokugawa Shogunate.  Nikko Toshogu.  Nijo-jo.  Katsura Rikyu (Katsura Imperial Villa).  Ryoanji.  Ming Tombs.  Potala Palace.  Voyages of Zheng He.  The Mughals.  Humanyun's Tomb.  Fatehpur Sikri.  Buland Darwaza.  Diwan-i-Khas.  Rauza-I-Munavvara (Taj Mahal).  Vijayanagara.  Bijapur.  Palace of Thanjavur.  Isfahan.  Suleymaniye Complex.  The Dogon of Mali.  Italian High Renaissance.  Campidoglio.  Il Redentore (Church of the Savior).  Palladian Villas.  Villa Rotonda.  Spanish Conquest of America.  Atrios.  Santo Domingo.  Il Gesu.  El Escorial.  Uffizi Gallery.  Villa Farnese.  St. Peter's Basilica.  Baroque Italy.  Sant'Andrea al Quirinale.  St. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane.  St. Peter's Square.  San Filippo Neri.  Place Royale.  Kremlin's New Churches.  Church of the Ascension.  Amsterdam.  Amsterdam Town Hall.  Elizabethan England.  Hardwick Hall.  Banqueting House.     1700 CE.  Colonialism.  Colonial Forts.  Haciendas.  Brazilian Haciendas.  Italian Masserie.  Coffeehouses.  French Culture of Empire.  Hotels.  Place Vendome.  East Facade of the Louvre.  Chateau de Versailles.  Hotel des Invalides.  Basilica of the Invalides.  L'Observatoire de Paris.  England: House of Stuart.  St. Paul   s Cathedral.  Blenheim Palace.  St. Mary Woolnoth.  Spread of the Baroque.  Facade of Santiago de Compostela.  St. Petersburg.  Bavarian Baroque.  Neresheim.  Sans Souci.  Georgian Architecture.  Chiswick House.  King's Chapel, Boston.  Stowe Gardens.  Nurosmaniye Mosque.  Qing Dynasty China.  Yuanmingyuan.  Qingyi Garden.  Edo, Kyoto's Odoi, and Shimabara.  Joseon Dynasty, Korea.  Mallas of Nepal.  Nayaks of Madurai.  Constantia.     1800 CE.  Japan: Edo Period.  Kanamaru-za.  Emperor Qianlong.  Chengde.  European Architecture: An Introduction.  Neoclassicism.  Robert Adam.  Syon House.  Piranesi and Romanticism.  Strawberry Hill.  Marc-Antoine Laugier.  St. Genevieve.  Le Petit Trianon.  Salt Works of Chaux.  The French Revolution.  Bibliotheque Nationale.  Napoleonic Cemeteries.  Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand.  Bank of England.  Neoclassicism in the United States.  Washington, DC.  Royal Pavilion.  Romantic Nationalism.  Altes Museum.  Jaipur and the End of the Mughal Empire.  Darbar Sahib.  Dakhma.  Colonial Calcutta: The Esplanade.  Writers' Building.  St. John's Church.  Government House.  Metcalfe Hall.  Khorezm.  Wat Pra Kaew.  The Industrial Revolution.  Lowell, Massachusetts.  Albert Dock.  Panoptic Prisons.  Workhouses.  The Shakers.  August Welby Pugin.  Greek Revival.  Tennessee State Capitol.  Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.  Architectural Preservation.  Bibliotheque St. Genevieve.  Synagogues.  John Ruskin.     1900 CE.  Victorian England.  The Reform Club.  The Athenaeum.  Public Sector Architecture.  London Law Courts.  Railroad Stations.  National Museums.  World Fairs.  The Passage.  Victorian Domestic Architecture.  Central Park.  Ecole des Beaux-Arts.  Paris and Georges-Eugene Haussmann.  Colonial Bombay.  The Chettinad Mansions.  Henry Hobson Richardson.  Al-Rifa   i Mosque.  Arts and Crafts Movement.  William Morris and William R. Lethaby.  Indo-Saracenic Style.  Shingle Style.  Arts and Crafts in California.  The Bungalow.  Campus Architecture in the United States.  Art Nouveau.  Maison Tassel.  City Beautiful Movement.  Rise of Professionalism.  European Ports.  Garden City Movement.  Changing Global Economy.  Skyscrapers.  Wrigley Building.  Casa Batllo.  Frank Lloyd Wright.  Taliesin East.  Walter Burley Griffin.  Colonial Africa.  International Beaux-Arts.  Kyoto National Museum.  Myongdong Cathedral.  Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Company Building.  25b, rue Franklin.  Adolf Loos.  The Factory Aesthetic.  Deutsche Werkbund.  Concrete.  Garnisonskirche.  Expressionism.  Czech Cubists.  New Delhi.  Gunnar Asplund.  Hollyhock House.  Dutch Kampung.  De Stijl Movement.  Friedrichstrasse Office Building.  Russian Constructivism.  Tatlin's Tower.  Soviet Pavilion.  The Bauhaus.  Le Corbusier.  Villa Savoye.  Lovell House.     1950 CE.  Modernism.  Weissenhof Siedlung.  Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne.  Pavilion Suisse.  Barcelona Pavilion.  Buckminster Fuller.  Palace of the Soviets.  Mombasa.  Rockefeller Center.  Czechoslovakia.  Ankara.  Israeli Modernism.  Japanese Pavilion.  Villa Mairea.  Usonian Houses.  Fallingwater.  Brazilian Modernism.  Italian Fascist Architecture.  Casa del Fascio.  German Fascist Architecture.  Saynatsalo Town Hall.  Illinois Institute of Technology Library Building.  Farnsworth House.  Eames House.  Yale University Art Gallery.  Brasilia.  Chandigarh.  Secretariat and High Court.  Assembly Building.  Ahmedabad.  Chapel at Ronchamp.  Guggenheim Museum.  Touba.  Ekistics.  Architecture of Prestige.  Sydney Opera House.  Eero Saarinen.  Caribbean Modernism.  Seagram Building.  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.  Uruguayan Modernism.  National Schools of Art, Havana.  Salk Institute.  Sher-e-Banglanagar.  Metabolism.  Brutalism.  Archigram.  Alternative Architecture.  Post-Corbusier India.  University of Ibadan.  Postmodernism.  Postmodern Museums.  The Preservation Movement.  The Postmodern, Non-Western World.  Magney House.     Globalization Takes Command.  Afterword.  Glossary.  Bibliography.  Photo Credits.  Index.",,864,"218.44 x 276.86 x 43.18mm | 2,494.75g","26 Jan 2011","John Wiley and Sons Ltd","Chichester, United Kingdom",English,"2nd ed.",,0470402571,"75,199",4.28,,,"Francis D.K. Ching is Professor Emeritus of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous architecture and design books, including Architectural Graphics; Architecture: Form, Space, and Order; A Visual Dictionary of Architecture; Interior Design Illustrated; and Building Construction Illustrated, all from Wiley. Mark Jarzombek is Associate Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning and Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture at MIT, as well as author of several books. Vikramaditya Prakash is Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington and the author of several academic publications.",Hardback,"John Wiley & Sons Ltd",,,,112,"2018-01-11 01:05:04","Vikramaditya Prakash",
113,84,"2018-01-11 01:05:10","Jutaku: Japanese Houses",9780714869629,"Naomi Pollock","Quirky, surprising and entertaining - with more than 400 houses, Jutaku is architecture at the speed of Japan.Frenetic. Pulsating. Disorienting. Japan's contemporary culture is constantly in flux. In stark contrast to the centuries old imperial architecture of Kyoto, recent Japanese architectural practices have ushered in an era of continuous experimentation.With 500 houses, one house per page, one image per house, Jutaku: Japanese Houses is a fast-paced, ""quick hit"" shock to the system that shines a Harajuku-bright neon light on the sheer volume, variety and novelty of contemporary Japanese residential architecture.Featuring the work of many of Japan's most famous architects including Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Jun Igarishi, Shuhei Endo and dozens of up and coming and completely unknown young architects, Jutaku is organized geographically taking readers on a bullet train journey across Japan's architectural landscape. Essential reading for architects, designers and fans of contemporary Japanese culture.",,"""Another winner from Phaidon... A must for those interested in architecture and design."" -selectism.com ""This lively survey of over 400 wild and whimsical houses... Shows the depth of talent and spirited adventurousness in Japanese architecture today."" -Architectural Record ""Jutaku may be the conventional Japanese word meaning house, but the new generation of homes being built there are anything but conventional. Preconceptions of what a house should look like have been discarded in favour of designs which challenge our ideas. This eclectic assembly of the weird and wonderful will provide plenty of thought for those contemplating building a home that is really out of the ordinary."" -Self Build and Design ""The collection exposes continual experimentation from Japan's renowned architects supplemented with works from up-and-coming talents."" -Metropolis ""There's a surfeit of unorthodox, wildly creative Japanese houses out there, and 400 of them are packed into Jutaku: Japanese Houses, a new tome from Phaidon."" -Fastcodesign.com ""[A collection] of domiciles [that] eschew conventional forms for daring contortions and feats of structural engineering."" -Dwell ""an array of weird and wonderful houses in all shapes and sizes."" -Blueprint ""Illustrates an era of continuous experimentation... Homes the likes of which would not be found elsewhere."" -ADF (Architects Datafile) ""Showcasing the best, strangest and most daring of contemporary Japanese architecture with full-color images, [this] is a hardcover tome that will surprise and inspire readers to think outside the 'duplex'."" -Coolhunting ""The Japanese have a distinctive approach to building houses... A penchant for surprisingly angled walls, clever use of windows plus an ability to build successful living spaces on extremely small plots of land. ...Enjoy these houses while they last, because they will be replaced by new, no doubt equally eccentric and elegant, designs before too long."" -Creative Review ""Japanese contemporary residential architecture is beautifully explored... Full of remarkable buildings."" -Sphere ""Jutaku gems that the put the boring old A-frame to shame."" -The Guardian ""Japan surprises us again and again... Eye-catching mini-houses spring up like mushrooms... Hardly a noteworthy house of the last fifteen years is missing, and almost all of Japan's renowned architects are represented."" -Details (Germany) ""Phaidon's irresistible book."" -Architizer ""Jutaku: Japanese Houses is essential reading for architects, designers and fans of contemporary Japanese culture."" -Midwest Book Review ""A seemingly endless procession of remarkable facades... There are myriad lessons that architects could learn from these houses... It is impossible not to be thrilled by their invention and sheer originality."" -Financial Times",512,"124 x 184 x 44mm | 816.47g","12 Oct 2015","Phaidon Press Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,,,0714869627,"27,577",3.77,US$24.75,US$24.95,"Naomi Pollock is an American architect who lives in Tokyo where she writes about design in Japan. Her work has appeared in numerous publications on both sides of the Pacific, including A+U, Dwell, Jutakutokushu, Wallpaper* and Architectural Record for whom she is the Special International Correspondent. In addition, she is the author of Modern Japanese House and Hitoshi Abe (both published by Phaidon Press), Made in Japan: 100 New Products, as well as the co-author of New Architecture in Japan.",Hardback,,,,,113,"2018-01-11 01:05:10","Naomi Pollock",
114,85,"2018-01-11 01:05:19","The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning",9780486253329,"Le Corbusier","In this 1929 classic, the great architect Le Corbusier turned from the design of houses to the planning of cities, surveying urban problems and venturing bold new solutions. The book shocked and thrilled a world already deep in the throes of the modern age. Today it is revered as a work that, quite literally, helped shape our world. Le Corbusier articulates concepts and ideas he would put to work in his city planning schemes for Algiers, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Geneva, Stockholm and Antwerp, as well as schemes for a variety of structures from a museum in Tokyo to the United Nations buildings. The influence it exerted on a new generation of architects is now legendary.",,,301,"154.94 x 231.14 x 25.4mm | 612.35g","01 Apr 1987","Dover Publications Inc.","New York, United States",English,"8th ed.",,0486253325,"70,475",3.92,US$22.17,,,Paperback,,,,,114,"2018-01-11 01:05:19","Le Corbusier",
115,86,"2018-01-11 01:05:20","The Classical Language of Architecture",9780500201770,"John Summerson",,,,144,"148 x 208 x 12mm | 280g","01 Jun 1980","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"Enlarged edition",,0500201773,"72,560",3.95,,,,Paperback,,,,,115,"2018-01-11 01:05:20","John Summerson",
116,87,"2018-01-11 01:05:24","Wonderful Houses Around the World",9780936070346,"Yoshio Komatsu","A picture is worth a thousand words; the 10 photos in this book, along with the accompanying descriptive detailed drawings, make this a very informative book for children. There has never been a photographer of buildings like Yoshio Komatsu. He has travelled extensively around the world for 25 years, photographing hand-built homes. Photos from Mongolia, China, Indonesia, India, Romania, Tunisia, Spain, Togo, Senegal, and Bolivia. Each structure is beautifully photographed, and then colorfully rendered in pen and wash, with many descriptive captions explaining the everyday life of children and families in these homes.",,,48,"187.96 x 248.92 x 15.24mm | 113.4g","01 Dec 2004","Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.","Bolinas, United States",English,,,093607034X,"59,226",4.43,US$11.32,US$12.96,,Paperback,,,,,116,"2018-01-11 01:05:24","Yoshio Komatsu",
117,88,"2018-01-11 01:05:34","Palm Springs Mid-Century Modern",9780764334610,"Dolly Faibyshev","178 stunning color and b/w photos present mid-century modern architecture clustered, perhaps in its highest concentration, in Palm Springs, California. The desert environment and Hollywood stars inspired architects of the day to creative heights, including Donald Wexler, E. Stewart Williams, William Krisel, Albert Frey, William F. Cody, and Richard Neutra. See the Frey House II, Kaufmann House, ""House of Tomorrow,"" and many more. Distinctive architectural features include carports, stone and perforated walls, chalet entrances, extra large driveways, walls of glass, indoor/outdoor spaces, deep overhangs and peaked, butterfly, and L-shaped roofs. For all who are passionate about architecture, this book will be a treasure.",,,112,"218.44 x 281.94 x 17.78mm | 839.14g","20 Jul 2010","Schiffer Publishing Ltd","Atglen, United States",English,,"178 photos",0764334611,"83,521",4.11,US$30.15,,"Dolly Faibyshev is a photographer who explores themes of suburbia, isolation, and the conquest of the American Dream.",Hardback,,,,,117,"2018-01-11 01:05:34","Dolly Faibyshev",
118,89,"2018-01-11 01:05:46","The Complete Zaha Hadid",9780500342893,"Aaron Betsky","Zaha Hadid is the leading architect in the world, and is the first female recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize (2004). This is the complete monograph of Hadid's works, from her early, unbuilt projects and ideas from her student years to her very latest projects around the world, including the Aquatics Centre for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Guangzhou Opera House in China, and the Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan, USA. The book also includes her furniture, product and exhibition designs.",,"Essential for anyone interested in this world-renowned architect.",288,"216 x 240 x 30.48mm | 1,440g","14 Jun 2016","Thames & Hudson Ltd","London, United Kingdom",English,"Revised edition","w. 600 col. ill.",050034289X,"98,729",4,,,,Hardback,,,,,118,"2018-01-11 01:05:46","Aaron Betsky",
119,90,"2018-01-11 01:05:56","Handcrafted Modern",9780847834181,"Leslie Williamson","An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Among significant mid-century interiors, none are more celebrated yet underpublished as the homes created by architects and interior designers for themselves. This collection of newly commissioned photographs presents the most compelling homes by influential mid-century designers, such as Russel Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eva Zeisel, among others. Intimate as well as revelatory, Williamson's photographs show these creative homes as they were lived in by their designers: Walter Gropius's historic Bauhaus home in Massachusetts; Albert Frey's floating modernist aerie on a Palm Springs rock outcropping; Wharton Esherick's completely handmade Pennsylvania house, from the organic handcarved staircase to the iconic furniture. Personal and breathtaking by turn--these homes are exemplary studies of domestic modernism at its warmest and most creative.","Introduction

Wharton Esherick
George Nakashima
Harry Bertoia
Russel Wright
Jens Risom
Eva Zeisel
Vladimir Kagan
Irving Harper
Walter Gropius
Jerome & Evelyn Ackerman
Charles & Ray Eames
J.B. Blunk
John Kapel
ALbert Frey","""Handcrafted Modern gives a fascinating glimpse into the homes that significant architects and designers - Harry Bertoia, Eva Zeisel, and Charles and Ray Eames, to name a few - built for themselves"" C""A revealing photo essay"" Elle Decor ""Every now and then, a book arrives which is not just a handsome presentation of information, but also a completely satisfying aesthetic object. This is the case with Handcrafted Modern by Leslie Williamson. Her photographs inside designers' (mostly) midcentury modernist homes capture something of the inhabitant and his or her pattern of living. But they reveal something more--something of the life of the designer of the space."" Architects Newspaper ""Bottom line--This book is simply superb! ...this is a must have for any design enthusiast, especially anyone who appreciates the handcrafted... this publication will not disappoint"" Design Therapy blog """"Handcrafted Modern"" gives a fascinating glimpse into the homes that significant architects and designers - Harry Bertoia, Eva Zeisel, and Charles and Ray Eames, to name a few - built for themselves"" ""C""""A revealing photo essay"" ""Elle Decor """"Every now and then, a book arrives which is not just a handsome presentation of information, but also a completely satisfying aesthetic object. This is the case with ""Handcrafted Modern"" by Leslie Williamson. Her photographs inside designers' (mostly) midcentury modernist homes capture something of the inhabitant and his or her pattern of living. But they reveal something more--something of the life of the designer of the space."" ""Architects Newspaper """"Bottom line--This book is simply superb! ...this is a must have for any design enthusiast, especially anyone who appreciates the handcrafted... this publication will not disappoint"" Design Therapy blog """"Handcrafted Modern"" (Rizzoli, $45) gives a fascinating glimpse into the homes that significant architects and designers - Harry Bertoia, Eva Zeisel, and Charles and Ray Eames, to name a few - built for themselves"" ""C""""A revealing photo essay"" ""Elle Decor""""Every now and then, a book arrives which is not just a handsome presentation of information, but also a completely satisfying aesthetic object. This is the case with ""Handcrafted Modern"" by Leslie Williamson. Her photographs inside designers' (mostly) midcentury modernist homes capture something of the inhabitant and his or her pattern of living. But they reveal something more--something of the life of the designer of the space."" ""Architects Newspaper""""Bottom line--This book is simply superb! ...this is a must have for any design enthusiast, especially anyone who appreciates the handcrafted... this publication will not disappoint"" Design Therapy blog",224,"208 x 262 x 30mm | 1,292.73g","13 Oct 2011","Rizzoli International Publications","New York, United States",English,,,0847834182,"74,213",4.33,US$43.49,US$45.01,"Leslie Williamson is a photographer based in San Francisco. Her work has appeared in Dwell, Surface, and Travel + Leisure magazines.",Hardback,,,,,119,"2018-01-11 01:05:56","Leslie Williamson",
120,91,"2018-01-11 01:05:59","The Hare with Amber Eyes",9780312569372,"Edmund de Waal","A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Book of the Year Costa Book Award Winner for Biography Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award) Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots--which are then sold, collected, and handed on--he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive. And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire.",,"A family memoir written with a grace and modesty that almost belie the sweep of its contents: Proust, Rilke, Japanese art, the rue de Monceau, Vienna during the Second World War. The most enchanting history lesson imaginable. ""The New Yorker"" An extraordinary history...A wondrous book, as lustrous and exquisitely crafted as the netsuke at its heart. ""The Christian Science Monitor"" A lovely, gripping book. ""The Wall Street Journal"" Enthralling . . . [de Waal's] essayistic exploration of his family's past pointedly avoids any sentimentality . . . ""The Hare with Amber Eyes ""belongs on the same shelf with Vladimir Nabokov's ""Speak, Memory."" ""Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World"" This is a book Sebald would have loved. ""The Irish Times"" At one level [Edmund de Waal] writes in vivid detail of how the fortunes were used to establish the Ephrussis' lavish lives and high positions in Paris and Vienna society. And, as Jews, of their vulnerability: the Paris family shaken by turn-of-the century anti-Semitism surging out of the Dreyfus affair; the Vienna branch utterly destroyed in Hitler's 1937 Anschluss . . . At a deeper level, though, ""Hare"" is about something more, just as Marcel Proust's masterpiece was about something more than the trappings of high society. As with ""Remembrance of Things Past,"" it uses the grandeur to light up interior matters: aspirations, passions, their passing; all in a duel, and a duet, of elegy and irony. ""Richard Eder, The Boston Globe"" Absorbing . . . In this book about people who defined themselves by the objects they owned, de Waal demonstrates that human stories are more powerful than even the greatest works of art. ""Adam Kirsch, The New Republic"" Delicately constructed and wonderfully nuanced . . . There are many family memoirs whose stories are as enticing as Edmund de Waal's. There are few, though, whose raw material has been crafted into quite such an engrossing and exquisitely written book as ""The Hare with Amber Eyes"" . . . One of the great triumphs of ""The Hare with Amber Eyes"" . . . is not just the assiduous way in which de Waal interrogates his raw evidence--scattered articles and newspaper cuttings, old paintings, forgotten buildings--but the way he summons up different eras so evocatively . . . [De Waal] is, too, as you would expect of a potter, wonderfully tactile in his investigations, interrogating the physical feel of the Ephrussis' different buildings, touching surfaces, assessing materials. This sensuality transmits itself also to his prose, which is beautiful to read--lithe and precise, crisp and delicate. The result is a memoir of the very first rank, one full of grace, economy, and extraordinary emotion. ""Andrew Holgate, The Barnes & Noble Review"" Remarkable . . . To be handed a story as durable and exquisitely crafted as this is a rare pleasure . . . Like the netsuke themselves, this book is impossible to put down. You have in your hands a masterpiece. ""Frances Wilson, The Sunday Times (London)"" From a hard and vast archival mass of journals, memoirs, newspaper clippings and art-history books, Mr. de Waal has fashioned, stroke by minuscule stroke, a book as fresh with detail as if it had been written from life, and as full of beauty and whimsy as a netsuke from the hands of a master carver. Buy two copies of his book; keep one and give the other to your closest bookish friend. ""The Economist"" What a treat of a book! It projects an iridescent mirage that once was real, a pageant of exquisite fragility, an aesthetic passion somehow surviving the brutalities of history. Mr. de Waal's nostalgia is tart, tactile, marvelously nuanced. ""Frederic Morton, author of A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888/1889 and The Rothschilds: Portrait of a Dynasty"" A self-questioning, witty, sharply perceptive book . . . ""The Hare with Amber Eyes ""is rich in epiphanic moments . . . By writing objects into his family story [de Waal] has achieved something remarkable. ""Tanya Harrod, The Times Literary Supplement"" A beautiful and unusual book . . . [A] unique memoir of [de Waal's] family . . . De Waal has a mystical ability to so inhabit the long-gone moment as to seem to suspend inexorable history, personal and impersonal . . . A work that succeeds in several known genres: as family memoir, travel literature (de Waal's Japan is the nearest thing to being there, and over decades), essays on migration and exile, on cultural misperceptions, and on de Waal's attempt to define his relationship with his own kaolin creations. His book is also a new genre, unnamed and maybe unnameable. ""Veronica Horwell, The Guardian"" Part family memoir, part Proustian confession, subtle, spare and elegant. ""Hilary Spurling, The Independent"" A marvelously absorbing synthesis of art history, detective story and memoir . . . A nimble history of one of the richest European families at the turn of the century . . . Remarkable. ""Kirkus Reviews""""",354,"137.16 x 205.74 x 27.94mm | 204.12g","02 Aug 2011","St Martin's Press","New York, United States",English,Reprint,"Halftones, black and white",0312569378,"11,628",3.85,US$15.48,US$16.99,"Edmund de Waal's porcelain has been displayed in many museum collections around the world, and he has recently made an installation for the dome of the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was apprenticed as a potter, studied in Japan, and studied English at Cambridge. He is Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster and lives in London with his family.",Paperback,,,,,120,"2018-01-11 01:05:59","Edmund de Waal",
121,94,"2018-01-11 01:06:03","Towards a New Architecture",9780486250236,"Le Corbusier","For the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887 1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic invention, intellectual speculation, and higher mathematics to go beyond mere utilitarian needs, beyond ""style,"" to achieve a pure creation of the spirit which established ""emotional relationships by means of raw materials."" The first major exposition of his ideas appeared in Vers une Architecture (1923), a compilation of articles originally written by Le Corbusier for his own avant-garde magazine, L'Esprit Nouveau. The present volume is an unabridged English translation of the 13th French edition of that historic manifesto, in which Le Corbusier expounded his technical and aesthetic theories, views on industry, economics, relation of form to function, the ""mass-production spirit,"" and much else. A principal prophet of the ""modern"" movement in architecture, and a near-legendary figure of the ""International School,"" he designed some of the twentieth century's most memorable buildings: Chapel at Ronchamp; Swiss dormitory at the Cite Universitaire, Paris; Unite d'Habitation, Marseilles; and many more. Le Corbusier brought great passion and intelligence to these essays, which present his ideas in a concise, pithy style, studded with epigrammatic, often provocative, observations: ""American engineers overwhelm with their calculations our expiring architecture."" ""Architecture is stifled by custom. It is the only profession in which progress is not considered necessary."" ""A cathedral is not very beautiful . . ."" and ""Rome is the damnation of the half-educated. To send architectural students to Rome is to cripple them for life."" Profusely illustrated with over 200 line drawings and photographs of his own works and other structures he considered important, Towards a New Architecture is indispensable reading for architects, city planners, and cultural historians but will intrigue anyone fascinated by the wide-ranging ideas, unvarnished opinions, and innovative theories of one of this century's master builders. """,,,289,"157.48 x 236.22 x 17.78mm | 272.15g","01 Feb 1985","Dover Publications Inc.","New York, United States",English,,"Illustrations, unspecified",0486250237,"10,792",3.93,US$16.75,US$16.95,,Paperback,,,,,114,"2018-01-11 01:05:19","Le Corbusier",
122,96,"2018-01-11 01:06:15","The Hare With Amber Eyes",9780701187163,"Edmund de Waal","The definitive illustrated edition of the international bestseller with gorgeous new photography of the celebrated netsuke collection, and sumptuous full-colour images hand-picked by Edmund de Waal from his family archive 264 Japanese wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in his great-uncle Iggie's Tokyo apartment. When he later inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger and more dramatic than he could ever have imagined. From a burgeoning empire in Odessa to fin de siecle Paris, from occupied Vienna to post-war Tokyo, Edmund de Waal traces the netsuke's journey through generations of his remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century.",,"""You have in your hands a masterpiece"" -- Frances Wilson * Sunday Times * ""The book not only of the year, but of the decade... A quite enchanting book, to be kept and reread by as many generations as it describes"" -- Michael Howard * TLS * ""Elegant. Modest. Tragic. Homeric."" -- Stephen Frears * Guardian, Books of the Year * ""The most brilliant book I've read for years... A rich tale of the pleasure and pains of what it is to be human"" -- Bettany Hughes * Daily Telegraph Books of the Year * ""A complex and beautiful book"" -- Diana Athill * Literary Review *",432,"164 x 226 x 38mm | 1,020.58g","17 Nov 2011","Vintage Publishing","London, United Kingdom",English,"Illustrated edition","120 full colour illustrations",0701187166,"24,094",3.85,US$37.48,US$54.25,"Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists, and his porcelain is held in many major museum collections. His bestselling memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize, the PEN/Ackerley Prize and the Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature. It was longlisted for the Orwell Prize and BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. Edmund was named New Writer of the Year at the 2010 Galaxy National Book Awards. www.edmunddewaal.com",Hardback,"CHATTO & WINDUS",,,,120,"2018-01-11 01:05:59","Edmund de Waal",
123,97,"2018-01-11 01:06:24","Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture",9780870702822,"Vincent Scully","First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A ""gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,"" Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards.",,,144,"213.36 x 276.86 x 10.16mm | 566.99g","02 Jul 2002","MUSEUM OF MODERN ART","New York, United States",English,"2nd Revised edition",,0870702823,"26,615",4.03,US$22.51,US$24.95,,Paperback,,,,,123,"2018-01-11 01:06:24","Robert Venturi",
124,98,"2018-01-11 01:06:25","Peter Zumthor",9783858817235,"Peter Zumthor","Peter Zumthor, Pritzker laureate 2009, unarguably ranks among the most important contemporary architects. He is revered worldwide for the stringency of his architectural concepts, the clarity of his designs, his sensitiveness for location and context, and for his conscious and careful use of materials. He is celebrated for the pure and atmospheric spaces he has created, such as Kunsthaus Bregenz (Bregenz, Austria), Therme Vals (Vals, Switzerland), Kolumba Art Museum (Cologne, Germany), or in 2011 the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion in London, Hortus Conclusus. Yet his lesser known residential buildings in Switzerland or the Field Chapel for Brother Klaus (near Mechernich, Germany) have also won great acclaim from architectural critics. Zumthor is much admired by students and teachers of architecture alike also for his philosophical approach to the task of building and for his writings on architectural thought. The new five-volume set is the first comprehensive monograph on Zumthor's work in more than fifteen years. Around 40 of his buildings and unrealised projects are presented in detail with brief descriptive texts by Zumthor himself, with photographs, sketches, drawings and plans. A complete list of works 1975-2013 rounds out the book. Photographs are contributed by Helene Binet, Hans Danuser and others.",,,800,"312.42 x 370.84 x 147.32mm | 7,098.68g","15 May 2014","Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag","Zurich, Switzerland",English,"1st ed.","350 Colour, 150 B&W, 200 Plans",3858817236,"38,258",4.72,US$213.85,US$250.01,"Thomas Durisch, born 1963 in Minneapolis, graduated as an architect from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 1990. He has been working at Peter Zumthor's studio from 1990-94 and runs his own practice in Zurich since 1995. He was curator of the exhibition Peter Zumthor: Bauten und Projekte 1986 2007 at Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2007. Peter Zumthor, born 1943 in Basel (Switzerland), trained as a cabinet maker and was educated as designer and architect at the College of Applied Arts in Basel and the Pratt Institute in New York. He runs his own architectural studio in Haldenstein (Switzerland) since 1979. He is also been lecturing at the Academy of Architecture of the Universita della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio (Switzerland) and various universities and colleges in Europe and the US. Zumthor has also been awarded many prizes for his work, including the highest honours in international architecture: the Praemium Imperiale (Japan, 2008), the Pritzker Prize (USA, 2009), and the Royal Institute of British Architects Royal Gold Medal (UK, 2012).",Hardback,,,,,24,"2018-01-11 00:57:12","Peter Zumthor",
125,99,"2018-01-11 01:06:30","The Louvre: All the Paintings",9781579128869,"Anja Grebe","An historic publishing event! Endorsed by the Louvre and for the first time ever, every painting from the world's most popular museum is available in one stunning book. All 3,022 paintings on display in the permanent painting collection of the Louvre are presented in full color in this striking, slipcased book. Comes with an enclosed, supportive DVD-ROM.The Louvre is the world's most visited art museum, with 8.5 million visitors annually, and houses the most celebrated and important paintings of all time. For the first time ever, The Louvre: All the Paintings collects all 3,022 paintings currently on display in the permanent collection in one beautifully curated volume.Organized and divided into the four main painting collections of the museum- the Italian School, the Northern School, the Spanish School, and the French School- the paintings are then presented chronologically by the artist's date of birth.Four hundred of the most iconic and significant paintings are illuminated with 300-word discussions by art historians Anja Grebe and Vincent Pomarede on the key attributes of the work, what to look for when viewing the painting, the artist's inspirations and techniques, biographical information on the artist, the artist's impact on the history of art, and more.All 3,022 paintings are fully annotated with the name of the painting and artist, the date of the work, the birth and death dates of the artist, the medium that was used, the size of the painting, the Louvre catalog number, and the room in the Louvre in which the painting is found.The DVD-ROM is easily browsable by artist, date, school, art historical genre, or location in the Louvre. This last feature allows readers to tour the Louvre and its contents room by room, as if they were actually walking through the building.DVD-ROM System Requirements: DVD-ROM runs on a PC (Windows 2000/XP or later) and MAC (OSX 10.4.8 or later) running the following browser software Internet Explorer 7 or 8; Firefox 3.6 and above; or Safari 5.0 and above.",,"The images are rich and sharp, the descriptions thoughtful and clear... Altogether, this is a fascinating overview for anyone looking to learn more about the grand old European masters.--USA Today This volume belongs on bookshelves. A major contribution to the literature of catalogs of great museum collections.--Bookpage With its stunning content and high-quality reproduction (and its accompanying DVD, providing a virtual tour of the galleries), The Louvre: All the Paintings is a choice gift for art lovers.--Library Journal Bring the entire museum collection to your bookshelf.--NJ Star-Ledger Can't get to Paris? Walk through the Louvre's epic collection with your fingertips. The images are rich and sharp, the descriptions thoughtful and clear... Altogether, this is a fascinating overview for anyone looking to learn more about the grand old European masters. ""USA Today"""" This volume belongs on bookshelves. A major contribution to the literature of catalogs of great museum collections. ""Bookpage"""" With its stunning content and high-quality reproduction (and its accompanying DVD, providing a virtual tour of the galleries), The Louvre: All the Paintings is a choice gift for art lovers. ""Library Journal"""" Bring the entire museum collection to your bookshelf. ""NJ Star-Ledger"""" Can't get to Paris? Walk through the Louvre's epic collection with your fingertips.",784,"307.34 x 381 x 99.06mm | 4,399.82g","19 Jan 2012","Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc","New York, United States",English,"annotated ed","colour illustrations",1579128866,"55,775",4.48,US$81.88,,"Anja Grebe (Author) Anja Grebe teaches art history at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg/Germany. She is taking part in numerous international research projects and exhibitions and has published extensively on medieval and modern art history. Grebe is the author of The Louvre: All the Paintings and The Vatican: All the Paintings. She lives in Erlangen, Germany.Erich Lessing (Author) Erich Lessing has been documenting the culture and fine arts of Europe and the Near East for more than fifty years. He is arguably today's leading independent photographer of the arts in the Western World. He created the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive which is an extensive image library featuring over 40,000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and private collections throughout the world, including a thorough coverage of such institutions as: The Louvre and the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Uffizi in Florence, the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, the Prado in Madrid, and many more. Having worked as a photographer all over the world for more than six decades, he has published more than 40 books with his art photography. He lives in Vienna and travels regularly to Paris and other art capitals of the world.",Hardback,,,,,125,"2018-01-11 01:06:30","Vincent Pomarede",
126,100,"2018-01-11 01:06:37","Barefoot Architect",9780936070421,"Johan Van Lengen","A former UN worker and prominent architect, Johan van Lengen has seen firsthand the desperate need for a ""greener"" approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates. This comprehensive book clearly explains every aspect of this endeavor, includingdesign (siting, orientation, climate consideration), materials (sisal, cactus, bamboo, earth), and implementation. The author emphasizes throughout the book what is inexpensive and sustainable. Included are sections discussing urban planning, small-scale energy production, cleaning and storing drinking water, and dealing with septic waste, and all information is applied to three distinct tropical regions: humid areas, temporate areas, and desert climates. Hundreds of explanatory drawings by van Lengen allow even novice builders to get started.""",,,704,"139.7 x 213.36 x 50.8mm | 975.22g","28 Oct 2007","Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.","Bolinas, United States",English,,"Illustrations, maps",0936070420,"79,831",4.35,US$23.16,,,Paperback,,,,,126,"2018-01-11 01:06:37","Johan Van Lengen",
127,101,"2018-01-11 01:06:46","This Building Likes Me: The Work of John Wardle Architects",9780500500774,"John Wardle Architects","This Building Likes Me offers an engaging account of the recent work of one of Australia's most significant architectural practices, John Wardle Architects (JWA). The practice is fascinated by those who experience their buildings and spaces - by those who live or work in them, or simply walk past. These are the people the buildings like! This monograph captures the practice's commitment to people, cities and places; the collaborations with makers, builders and artists and the continual; and their continual inventive exploration of scale, site, landscape and narratives of memory.",,,440,"237 x 300 x 44mm | 1,580g","01 Aug 2016","Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","Fisherman's Bend, Australia",English,,,0500500770,"59,167",4,US$50.25,US$67.76,,Hardback,,,,,127,"2018-01-11 01:06:46","John Wardle Architects",
128,101,"2018-01-11 01:06:46","This Building Likes Me: The Work of John Wardle Architects",9780500500774,"John Wardle Architects","This Building Likes Me offers an engaging account of the recent work of one of Australia's most significant architectural practices, John Wardle Architects (JWA). The practice is fascinated by those who experience their buildings and spaces - by those who live or work in them, or simply walk past. These are the people the buildings like! This monograph captures the practice's commitment to people, cities and places; the collaborations with makers, builders and artists and the continual; and their continual inventive exploration of scale, site, landscape and narratives of memory.",,,440,"237 x 300 x 44mm | 1,580g","01 Aug 2016","Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","Fisherman's Bend, Australia",English,,,0500500770,"59,167",4,US$50.25,US$67.76,,Hardback,,,,,128,"2018-01-11 01:06:46","Justine Clark",
129,102,"2018-01-11 01:06:52","The Tailored Interior",9781743790298,"Greg Natale","Multi award-winning interior designer Greg Natale is renowned for doing things differently - his is a bold, fresh and modern Antipodean style that brings the best of classic interiors into the 21st Century. His bold signature style juxtaposes clean lines with repeating geometric patterns, unadorned walls with highly embellished feature pieces, empty space with vivid splashes of color. At once contemporary, restrained, sophisticated and playful, Greg's spectacular interiors integrate architecture, design and decoration to create visually breathtaking masterpieces. In this stunning, photographic collection, Greg guides us through finding the perfect hook, building a concept from the ground up, layering different elements for cohesion, embracing empty space, using colour and pattern to add the magical finishing touches, and giving an interior space that elusive je ne sais quoi.",,"""A compendium of Natale's bold yet buttoned-up projects and the checklists and tips he uses to create them, The Tailored Interioroffers an inside look at the designer's enigmatic design process.""-ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST ""A must have for designers, design-loving homeowners and casual enthusiasts alike.""-FrankiDurbin.com ""A beautifully curated book that is both guide as well as visual inspiration. This beautiful manual filled with over 200 vibrant photographs of 18 of Natale's projects will delight the most accomplished designer as well the novice who may be intimidated by the whole process of designing a home.""-THE ENTERTAINING HOUSE BLOG ""Natale, one of Australia's top designers, embraces a vivid expression of personal style. From classic to contemporary, he captures the balance and comfort that make for extraordinary homes.""-AT HOME IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY ""[The Tailored Interior] is all about ways to transform spaces into bold rushes of color and pattern while maintaining the comfort of the space. . . Greg gives a step-by-step guide and expert advice for crafting sophisticated living rooms, bathrooms, entryways, dining spaces, kitchens and more as he showcases 18 impeccable homes that he's given his master touch. . . This book is a must have for any design lover's library if only for the eye-catching and thought-provoking visuals, thick pages, and the beauty it presents as it sits on your coffee table.""-CALIFORNIA HOME + DESIGN""",256,"250 x 302 x 30.48mm | 1,800g","15 Sep 2015","HARDIE GRANT BOOKS","South Yarra, Australia",English,,"full colour photography",1743790295,"69,085",3,US$41.13,US$54.99,"Since 2001, interior designer Greg Natale has been pioneering the integration of design and decoration; focusing on residential, retail and commercial design. With his bold signature style, Greg Natale has been feted as one of Australia's top designers. His work has won numerous awards, including Interior Designer of the Year (2011) and Best Residential Interior (2013) at the Belle/Coco Republic Interior Design Awards. Greg Natale's work has been featured in local and international magazines - including Wallpaper, Vogue Living, Time, Harper's Bazaar and Elle - and his interiors have been published in a host of design books. He is also soon to be published in Architectural Digest in Russia, Elle Decor in Germany and Home Journal Magazine in Hong Kong so continues to have a strong profile internationally.",Hardback,,,,,129,"2018-01-11 01:06:52","Greg Natale",
130,103,"2018-01-11 01:06:59","BIG. Hot to Cold. An Odyssey of Architectural Adaptation",9783836557399,"Bjarke Ingels","After the global success of Yes Is More, one of the best-selling architecture books of its generation, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group presents Hot to Cold, an odyssey of architectural adaptation. The book coincides with the Hot to Cold Show at the National Building Museum in Washington DC and presents 60 case Studies in harsh climate conditions in order to examine where and how we live on our planet. As we travel from one end of the spectrum to its opposite we will see that the more harsh the climate gets, the more intense its impact on the architecture. The central challenge is to mitigate the climatic extremes for hospitable human life, while finding solutions that can be both economically and environmentally profitable. Architecture is the art and science of accommodating the lives we want to live. Our cities and buildings aren't givens; they are the way they are because that is as far as we have gotten to date. They are the best efforts of our ancestors and fellow planetizens, and if they have shortcomings, it is up to us to continue that effort, pick up where they left off. Hot to Cold stays true to BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group's grand mission to find a pragmatic utopia, shaping not only a particular structural entity, but the kind of world we wish to inhabit.",,,712,"166 x 250 x 42mm | 1,959.97g","30 Mar 2015","Taschen GmbH","Cologne, Germany",English,,,3836557398,"46,489",4.23,US$57.75,,,Paperback,,,,,130,"2018-01-11 01:06:59","Bjarke Ingels",
131,104,"2018-01-11 01:07:09","Hold Still",9780316247764,"Sally Mann","NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: ""deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder."" In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.",,"""One would not need to know Sally Mann's remarkable work as a photographer to be swept up in her memoir Hold Still, which draws upon a family history so rife with jaw-dropping drama that it could provide the grist for a dozen novels. With prodigious intellect and a telling instinct for the exact detail that will reveal character or throw it into question, Mann delves into the treacherous territory of memory, mesmerized by the relentless dance of beauty and decay. In doing so, she manifests in prose the acuity of seeing that has propelled her to the top rank of contemporary artists.""--Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree and The Noonday Demon",482,"152.4 x 233.68 x 43.18mm | 907.18g","03 Jun 2015","Little, Brown & Company","New York, United States",English,,"418 b/w & 4/c photographs, letters, drawings, and illustrations",0316247766,"41,126",4.01,US$29.56,US$32.00,"Sally Mann (born in Lexington, Virginia, 1951) is one of America's most renowned photographers. She has received numerous awards, including NEA, NEH, and Guggenheim Foundation grants, and her work is held by major institutions internationally. Her many books include What Remains (2003), Deep South (2005), and the Aperture titles At Twelve (1988), Immediate Family (1992), Still Time (1994), Proud Flesh (2009), and The Flesh and the Spirit (2010). A feature film about her work, What Remains, debuted to critical acclaim in 2006. Mann is represented by Gagosian Gallery, New York. She lives in Virginia.",Hardback,,,,,131,"2018-01-11 01:07:09","Sally Mann",
132,105,"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,,,,,110,"2018-01-11 01:04:55","Peter Gössel",
133,105,"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,,,,,133,"2018-01-11 01:07:18","Gloria Koenig",
134,106,"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,,,,,134,"2018-01-11 01:07:24","David Robson",
135,107,"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

Sources
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",,,,135,"2018-01-11 01:07:31","Michael Pollan",
136,108,"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,,,,,136,"2018-01-11 01:07:39","Eric Boman",
137,109,"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,,,,,137,"2018-01-11 01:07:40","Tom Kundig",
138,112,"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,,,,,138,"2018-01-11 01:07:58","Alan Hess",
139,113,"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,,,,,89,"2018-01-13 22:32:13","Elizabeth A T Smith",
140,115,"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",,,,140,"2018-01-11 01:08:20","Claire Wilcox",
141,117,"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,,,,,99,"2018-01-11 01:04:01","Philip Jodidio",
142,118,"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,,,,,110,"2018-01-11 01:04:55","Peter Gössel",
143,118,"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,,,,,143,"2018-01-11 01:08:34","Claire Zimmerman",
144,119,"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,,,,,99,"2018-01-11 01:04:01","Philip Jodidio",
145,120,"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,,,,,145,"2018-01-11 01:08:46","Olivia Laing",
146,122,"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",,,,146,"2018-01-11 01:08:54","Jane Jacobs",
147,123,"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,,,,,147,"2018-01-11 01:09:04","Geoff Manaugh",
148,125,"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,,,,,148,"2018-01-11 01:09:16","Jan Gehl",
149,126,"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",,,,149,"2018-01-11 01:09:27","Kevin Lynch",
150,128,"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,,,,,150,"2018-01-11 01:09:38","James Gulliver Hancock",
151,130,"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",,,,146,"2018-01-11 01:08:54","Jane Jacobs",
152,131,"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,,,,152,"2018-01-11 01:09:48","Peter Ackroyd",
153,132,"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",,,,123,"2018-01-11 01:06:24","Robert Venturi",
154,132,"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",,,,154,"2018-01-15 02:39:10","Denise Scott Brown",
155,132,"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",,,,155,"2018-01-11 01:09:56","Steven Izenour",
156,133,"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,,,,,156,"2018-01-11 01:09:59","Jeff Speck",
157,134,"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,,,,,157,"2018-01-11 01:10:07","John Fleming",
158,134,"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,,,,,158,"2018-01-11 01:10:07","Nikolaus Pevsner",
159,134,"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,,,,,159,"2018-01-11 01:10:07","Hugh Honour",
160,135,"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",,,,160,"2018-01-11 01:10:11","Aldo Rossi",
161,136,"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.",,,,161,"2018-01-11 01:10:22","Pete Nelson",
162,137,"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,,,,,162,"2018-01-11 01:10:29","Louisa Jones",
163,138,"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,,,,,163,"2018-01-11 01:10:40","Lewis Mumford",
164,140,"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,,,,,162,"2018-01-11 01:10:29","Louisa Jones",
165,140,"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,,,,,165,"2018-01-11 01:10:51","Clive Nichols",
166,141,"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,,,,166,"2018-01-11 01:10:52","Alexandra D'Arnoux",
167,141,"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,,,,167,"2018-01-11 01:10:52","Bruno de Laubadere",
168,142,"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,,,,,148,"2018-01-11 01:09:16","Jan Gehl",
169,142,"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,,,,,169,"2018-01-11 01:10:54","Birgitte Svarre",
170,143,"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,,,,,170,"2018-01-11 01:11:02","Russell Page",
171,144,"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,,,,,171,"2018-01-11 01:11:04","Jahn Gehl",
172,145,"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,,,,,6,"2018-01-11 00:52:55","Christopher Alexander",
173,146,"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,,,,,173,"2018-01-11 01:11:14","Arne Maynard",
174,147,"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,,,,,174,"2018-01-11 01:11:17","Hamish Bowles",
175,149,"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,,,,,175,"2018-01-11 01:11:19","Toby Hemenway",
176,150,"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",,,,176,"2018-01-11 01:11:30","Professor Matthew Carmona",
177,150,"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",,,,177,"2018-01-11 01:11:30","Tim Heath",
178,150,"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",,,,178,"2018-01-11 01:11:30","Taner Oc",
179,150,"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",,,,179,"2018-01-11 01:11:30","Steve Tiesdell",
180,151,"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",,,,180,"2018-01-11 01:11:39","Nathan Williams",
181,152,"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",,,,181,"2018-01-11 01:11:43","Marie Tourell Söderberg",
182,153,"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",,,,182,"2018-01-11 01:11:45","Grace Bonney",
183,155,"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",,,,183,"2018-01-11 01:11:57","Emily Henderson",
184,156,"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,,,,,184,"2018-01-11 01:12:05","Sibella Court",
185,157,"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,,,,,185,"2018-01-11 01:12:12","Bree Claffey",
186,158,"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,,,,,186,"2018-01-11 01:12:16","Tone Finnanger",
187,159,"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,,,,,187,"2018-01-11 01:12:21","Igor Josifovic",
188,159,"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,,,,,188,"2018-01-11 01:12:21","Judith de Graaff",
189,160,"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.",,,,189,"2018-01-11 01:12:32","Todd Selby",
190,161,"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,,,,,190,"2018-01-11 01:12:42","Justina Blakeney",
191,163,"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,,,,,191,"2018-01-11 01:12:54","India Hicks",
192,164,"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,,,,192,"2018-01-11 01:13:04","Kevin McCloud",
193,165,"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,,,,,186,"2018-01-11 01:12:16","Tone Finnanger",
194,166,"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,,,,,184,"2018-01-11 01:12:05","Sibella Court",
195,167,"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,,,,,195,"2018-01-11 01:13:20","Emily Chalmers",
196,167,"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,,,,,196,"2018-01-11 01:13:20","Ali Hanan",
197,168,"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",,,,197,"2018-01-11 01:13:29","Julie Carlson",
198,169,"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,,,,,198,"2018-01-11 01:13:38","Hilary Robertson",
199,170,"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",,,,199,"2018-01-11 01:13:47","Karen Kingston",
200,172,"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",,,,200,"2018-01-11 01:13:50","Anna Spiro",
201,173,"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",,,,201,"2018-01-11 01:14:00","Cath Kidston",
202,174,"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,,,,,202,"2018-01-11 01:14:06","Linda O'shea",
203,174,"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,,,,,203,"2018-01-11 01:14:06","Chris Grimley",
204,174,"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,,,,,204,"2018-01-11 01:14:06","Mimi Love",
205,175,"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",,,,205,"2018-01-11 01:14:09","Annie Sloan",
206,176,"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,,,,,206,"2018-01-11 01:14:13","Erin T. Gates",
207,177,"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",,,,207,"2018-01-11 01:14:19","Kit Caless",
208,178,"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,,,,,208,"2018-01-17 06:04:45","Kate Watson-Smyth",
209,179,"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",,,,209,"2018-01-11 01:14:35","Elsie Larson",