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Alpine Style: Bringing Mountain Magic Home - Hardcover

$40.00

by Kathryn O'Shea-Evans (Author)The definitive designer guide to creating a mountain-inspired home--with jaw-dropping imagery of alpine interiors interspersed with throwback shots of celebrities living large in the great outdoors.Alpine Style is a compendium of some of the most exquisite mountain interior design projects on the planet...as enchanting as the mountains themselves. Whether storybook and classic or sleek and modern, these alpine interiors from across the globe are tailor-made for...

Made for Living: Collected Interiors for All Sorts of Styles - Hardcover

$40.00

by Amber Lewis (Author), Cat Chen (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The trendsetting designer known for her effortless style shares the secrets of the art of layering, with more than 250 gorgeous photographs of her signature interiors. "Livability is my true north. The materials I use time and again all change with age and wear. Not only is that okay, it's how you achieve more than a re-creation of what you've already seen, or what somebody else has done. You can do this, too--I promise."--from t...

The Slow Down: For the Love of Home - Hardcover

$50.00

by Leanne Ford (Author)Designer and HGTV personality Leanne Ford shares design secrets and personal reflections on how she creates her warm, chic, and easy-going aesthetic--and how you can do the same Leanne Ford's imperfectly perfect designs inspire more than half a million social media fans daily. In this very personal design book, she shares her decorating philosophy, wry humor, and advice to live by. The Slow Down offers readers an inside look at how Leanne found her "wow does this need...

House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style, and Budget - Hardcover

$29.99

by Myquillyn Smith (Author)Finally, a decorating book that transcends trends and applies to every style! You want to create a beautiful, livable home, but you feel stuck. House Rules is your guide to understanding why some rooms look great and other rooms don't look quite right. From the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Cozy Minimalist Home comes this charming collection of one hundred memorable, universal decorating truths that apply to every house, style, and bud...

The Love of Home: Interiors for Beauty, Balance, and Belonging - Hardcover

$45.00

by Kate Marker (Author)Effortlessly merging modern and traditional, Kate Marker reveals her secrets for designing a gorgeous home that inspires connection.Home is more than where the heart is-- it's where life happens. From early morning coffee to dinners with family and friends, Kate Marker establishes tailor-made spaces for thriving in your home each day. Whether it is maximizing comfort or creating efficient family-centered design, this is your guide to defining a vision for your home that...

How to Undertake Carpentry Projects - Building Decks, Trim, Shelves, and Woodwork for the Home: A Comprehensive Guide to Crafting Beautiful Woodwork, - Paperback

$20.23

by The Fix-It Guy (Author)This comprehensive handbook equips you, regardless of experience level, to become a confident woodworking maestro. Learn essential techniques, expert tips, and step-by-step instructions for building stunning decks, crafting elegant trim, constructing functional shelves, and tackling a variety of beautiful home woodwork projects.Ditch the limitations of store-bought solutions and unleash your inner artisan! This book equips you with the knowledge and skills to: Mast...

Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright - Paperback

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by Brendan Gill (Author)"Genius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover."--Kirkus Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works-among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum--earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earne...

The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship - Paperback

$22.99

by Roger Friedland (Author), Harold Zellman (Author)Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius but also as a subject of controversy--from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including a notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. But the estate also gave rise to one of the most fascinating and provocative experiments in American cultural history: the Taliesin Fellowship, an extraordinary arc...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses: Experiments in Modern Living - Hardcover

$64.80

by Neil Levine (Editor), Elizabeth Jacobs Aitken (Essay by), Michael Desmond (Essay by)Frank Lloyd Wright's Jacobs Houses: Experiments in Modern Living is edited by Wright scholar and noted author Neil Levine and features essay contributions by all three Jacobs children (Susan, Elizabeth, and William), as well as new scholarly essays by Levine and Michael Desmond. Additionally, the book includes new biographies of Katherine and Herb Jacobs, as well as scores of never-before-published photogra...

Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes - Paperback

$45.29

by Thomas Carter (Author), Elizabeth Collins Cromley (Author)Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes, is a manual for exploring and interpreting vernacular architecture, the common buildings of particular regions and time periods. Thomas Carter and Elizabeth Collins Cromley provide a comprehensive introduction to the field.Proposing a methodology, Invitation to Vernacular Architecture provides a systematic approach to vernacular archite...

Rock the Shack: The Architecture of Cabins, Cocoons and Hide-Outs - Hardcover

$60.00

by Sven Ehmann (Editor), S. Borges (Editor)From weekend homes to get-away cabins in the mountains, by the sea, or in the woods, this architecture embodies our longing for lounging in nature. For the first time in the history of humankind, more people live in cities than in the country. Yet, at the same time, more and more city dwellers are yearning for rural farms, mountain cabins, or seaside homes. These kinds of refuges offer modern men and women a promise of what urban centers usually cann...

Universe of Stone: Chartres Cathedral and the Invention of the Gothic - Paperback

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by Philip Ball (Author)"A lively, open-ended study of the building of Chartres Cathedral. . . . Ball puts the fun back in medieval scholasticism." --Los Angeles TimesChartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to those who constructed it in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries--and why was it built at such immense height and with such glorious play of light, in the soaring manner we now call G...

At Home in France: Inspiration and Style in Town and Country - Hardcover

$65.00

by Timothy Corrigan (Author), Michael Boodro (With)In his third book, AD100 and Elle Decor A-List designer Corrigan shares the joys of decorating and living in his Paris apartment and new chateau infectiously inspiring us to design à la française. Having a nineteenth-century apartment in Paris steps from the Trocadero and Eiffel Tower is a dream. So is owning an eighteenth-century chateau in the French countryside known as the "Versailles of the fields." Having both? That's the dreamy escapis...

Luna Luna: The Art Amusement Park - Hardcover

$49.95

by André Heller (Author)A landmark book documenting the first-ever art amusement park - launched in 1987 in Hamburg, Germany - in anticipation of its global reintroductionIn the late 1980s, more than 30 of the era's most acclaimed artists - including Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Salvador Dalí, and Keith Haring - designed unique and fully operational fairground attractions specifically for the original park, including rides, interactive sculptures, games, performances...

Inside the Castle 2: Revenge of the Castle Freak - Paperback

$79.20

by John Trefry (Editor), Kyle Booten (Engineer)Inside the Castle 2: Revenge of the Castle Freak is a an unofficial sequel to Inside the Castle by Josiah Morgan, published in 2019 by Amphetamine Sulphate. It is a book written by 60 authors. It contains a castle with 17 rooms. More aptly, it is a book written by the whole of human consciousness. It contains the interactions of 60 people with a large language model assuming the tonal and geographic characteristics of a castle with 17 rooms. 60 p...

Architecture and the Public Good - Paperback

$44.10

by Tom Spector (Author)The practice of architecture as a learned profession is a fairly recent invention in the history of architecture, one that was an uneasy fit with professional ideals from its inception in the nineteenth century, and the value of which is under assault today from globalizing economic forces. Unfortunately, the profession's longstanding internal tensions have prevented it from articulating a durable ethical rationale for its protections that would help it stand up to thos...

Pyramids of Egypt (Unsolved) - Hardcover

$31.00

by Dinah Williams (Author)Discover the unsolved mystery of the pyramids of Egypt in this beautifully illustrated book for kids, accessible for all readers!The pyramids were built as tombs for the Egyptian Pharaohs. They are an engineering feat that have puzzled scientists and historians for centuries. How did the ancient Egyptians constructthese massive structures? This real unsolved mystery will unfold with simple text and exciting visuals. Decide for yourself with actual clues, facts, and p...

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by Richard Sennett (Author)If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? "Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less." This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six le...

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by Elizabeth A. T. Smith (Author), Peter Gössel (Editor)The 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 architec...

Resident Dog (Volume Two): Incredible Homes and the Dogs Who Live There - Hardcover

$55.00

by Nicole England (Author)As an architecture photographer, Nicole England found that the shoots she enjoyed the most were the ones where dogs were present - nothing lightens the mood like a nonchalant pup. However imposing the architecture, some doggy hijinks can immediately bring an element of sociability and fun. With this in mind, Nicole set about setting up her instagram, Resident Dog, and now this book, Resident Dog Around the World, which showcases over 25 of the world's most amazing ho...

Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion: The Questioneers Book #3 - Hardcover

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by Andrea Beaty (Author), David Roberts (Illustrator)New York Times bestselling series! Now a Netflix Series! From the #1 New York Times bestselling team Andrea Beaty and David Roberts who created Ada Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck, Architect comes a spirited story full of adventure, friendship, and science! This is a unique and exciting series of children's chapter books for children, parents, and teachers who want to make STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fun. Iggy Peck i...

The New Bohemians: Cool and Collected Homes - Hardcover

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by Justina Blakeney (Author)New York Times bestseller! "Updated interpretations of the free-spirited aesthetic and worldview." --Los Angeles Times "With pages of tips and twelve DIY projects, the book makes the free-spirited style easy to achieve." --ArchitecturalDigest.com LA-based designer Justina Blakeney defines the "New Bohemians" as creative individuals who are boutique owners and bloggers, entrepreneurs and expats, artists and urban farmers. They embrace free-spirited, no-rules lifest...

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by Johan Van Lengen (Author)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, including design (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 d...

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by Thomas Heatherwick (Author) Wallpaper* once described Thomas Heatherwick as having "the world at his feet," and the designer's bestselling monograph puts his world at ours. Filling almost 650 pages, this fully revised and updated edition illuminates the breathtaking imagination behind more than one hundred and fifty of the studio's extraordinary works, from London to Shanghai, New York to Tokyo. Now with sixteen new projects, updated photography and an index for easy navigation, Thomas Hea...

Moments at Home: Interior Inspiration for Every Room - Hardcover

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by Steve Cordony (Author)Moments at Home celebrates the signature aesthetic of one of Australia's leading interiors stylist, Steve Cordony, in order to inspire home lovers globally. Steve seeks to share insightful interior styling and tablescaping ideas as well as small, everyday details which are the soul of the home. Including sumptuous photography of his clients' homes as well as Steve's own beautiful property, Rosedale farm, he wants to empower readers to create their own moments of ref...

Lost Columbia County, New York - Paperback

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by Allison Guertin Marchese (Author)Columbia County Past RevealedPeople have been drawn to Columbia County, New York, for years. Beyond the region's picturesque streams, lakes and mountains, the county is filled with the magic of history. Famed pirate Captain Kidd and local Lord of the Manor Robert Livingston were once in cahoots regarding the plundering of the seas. A roaring nightclub fashioned as a ship marooned on dry land, named the Show Boat, drew legendary acts like Ella Fitzgerald and...

Japandi: Serene Homes and Thoughtful Living - Hardcover

$50.00

by Laila Rietbergen (Author), Marlous Snijder (Author)- Second book by Laila Rietbergen, author of the successful Japandi Living (9789401483711)- The comprehensive book on Japandi style- Including practical tips and stunning photography- Author Laila Rietbergen is specialized in Japandi interiors, sharing her passion with more than 630K followersThe Japandi style has proven to be a timeless and beloved style for many. In her second book, Laila Rietbergen, author of the successful Japandi Livi...

Aalto in Detail: A Catalogue of Components - Hardcover

$36.99

by Céline Dietziker (Author), Lukas Gruntz (Author)This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is the result of intensive formal and functional research. The authors document 50 Aalto buildings - some well-known and others less so - and arrange their photographs by component into 20 chapters. The result is a rich photographic record that will serve as a source of inspiration for every architect. Aut...

The Campus Of Cornell University; - Hardcover

$38.81

by Cornell University [From Old Catalog] (Created by)This beautifully illustrated volume offers a comprehensive guide to the architecture, art and history of the Cornell University campus. From its stunning natural landscapes to its impressive collection of buildings and public art, the book provides a compelling tribute to one of America's most esteemed academic institutions, making it an essential addition to the library of any Cornellian or admirer of ivy league architecture and landscape ...

Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living - Paperback

$59.85

by Avi Friedman (Author), Alexandra Pollock (Author)Current planning and design modes of dwellings and neighbourhoods are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic and social aspects. The depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change are a few of ...

SLOTHS MINI Coloring book: Sloths Unplugged Odyssey Disconnect from Reality and Reconnect with Our Mini Cybernetic Journey, Where Virtual Realiti - Paperback

$10.78

by Winter Art (Author)SLOTHS MINI Coloring book 30+ drawings.Features!Key highlights of this book: ✅ Vivid images: black-and-white paper filled with 30 artistic illustrations and stunning designs.✅ Single-Sided Pages: Bleeding is no longer an issue because all pages are printed on single sides.✅ Fulfill your passion: All pages contain various appealing images to satisfy your creativity which helps you become a great coloring master.✅ The greatest gift ever: Giving the appropriate gift to the ...

Camaro Coloring Book: Collection of detailed coloring pictures of Caramo cars for car lovers of all ages. - Paperback

$10.78

by Alejandro Daniel Art (Author)Camaro Coloring Book 30+ drawings.Features!Key highlights of this book: ✅ Vivid images: black-and-white paper filled with 30 artistic illustrations and stunning designs.✅ Single-Sided Pages: Bleeding is no longer an issue because all pages are printed on single sides.✅ Fulfill your passion: All pages contain various appealing images to satisfy your creativity which helps you become a great coloring master.✅ The greatest gift ever: Giving the appropriate gift to...