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Alpine Style: Bringing Mountain Magic Home - Hardcover

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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

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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

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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...

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by Rainer Zerbst (Author)Antoni Gaudí merged Orientalism, natural forms, and new materials into a unique Modernista aesthetic that put Barcelona on the global architecture map. With brand-new photography, plans and drawings by Gaudí himself, as well as an extensive appendix of all his works including furniture and unfinished projects, this book takes us through the... Number of Pages: 512 Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 06, 2020

The Feel-Good Home, Feng Shui and Taoism for Healthy Living - Paperback

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by Mary Jane Kasliner (Author), Ann Curch Gagliano (Author)In The Feel-Good Home, Feng Shui and Taoism for Healthy Living, Mary Jane Kasliner breaks downs the history of two ancient practices and how they work with energy (chi) to enhance our environment and how we feel.In recent years, more and more people have started paying attention to what's in the food they eat and the products they use--but what about the rest of their environment? By viewing the home as an extension of the body, Kasli...

Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses Around the World - Hardcover

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by Philip Jodidio (Author)Across small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world's finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-coming names like Aires Mateus, Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Here, there are homes in Australia and New Zealand, from China and Vietnam, in the United States and Mexico, and on to less expected places like E...

Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Field Guide - Paperback

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by Simon C. Green (Author)This field guide, a companion to Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Military Engineer's Perspective, reviews key blockhouses left standing in South Africa. A first-of-its-kind guide, it can be used for virtual visits to learn more about these military structures, or better still to get 'boots on the ground'. Its main aim is to put the blockhouse sites on the battlefield tour map and to encourage professional guides and amateurs alike to explore them in detail or make the...

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by Doug Taylor (Author)Toronto Then and Now pairs vintage images of Canada's largest city - and North America's fourth most populous - with the same views as they look today.Toronto has long been a financial powerhouse in North America, and this is represented by its many grand bank buildings. Canada's capital may be Ottawa, but the financial power emanates from this thriving city, the fourth most populous in North America.Sites include: Toronto Harbour, Fort York, Queen's Quay Lighthouse, To...

Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World - Paperback

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by Hannah Lewis (Author), Paul Hawken (Foreword by)*2023 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Green, Restorative Practices /Sustainability "Hannah Lewis describes a gift to a despairing world. . . . There may be no single climate solution that has a greater breadth of benefits than mini-forests. . . [and] can be done by everyone everywhere."--Paul Hawken, from the foreword For readers who enjoyed Finding the Mother Tree and The Hidden Life of Trees comes the first-ever book about a movement...

From Object to Experience: The New Culture of Architectural Design - Paperback

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by Harry Francis Mallgrave (Author)Harry Francis Mallgrave combines a history of ideas about architectural experience with the latest insights from the fields of neuroscience, cognitive science and evolutionary biology to make a powerful argument about the nature and future of architectural design. Today, the sciences have granted us the tools to help us understand better than ever before the precise ways in which the built environment can affect the building user's individual experience. Thr...

Taliesin West: At Home with Frank Lloyd Wright - Hardcover

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by Nora Burba Trulsson (Author), Andrew Pielage (Photographer), Stuart Graff (Foreword by)Frank Lloyd Wright's winter home and desert laboratory is a National Historic Landmark and has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This book, the first of its kind in decades, celebrates that recognition and offers a new look at this world treasure. An extraordinary compound of buildings that complements the cactus-studded environs and mountain backdrop of the Scottsdale desert in Arizona, Taliesin ...

Sixteenth Street NW: Washington, DC's Avenue of Ambitions - Hardcover

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by John Deferrari (Author), Douglas Peter Sefton (Author)DeFerrari and Sefton have created a highly illustrated architectural "biography" of one of DC's most important boulevards. This north-south artery-which runs from the White House, through DC, and to the Maryland border-is as central to the cityscape as it is to DC's history and culture. Author BiographyJohn DeFerrari is a native Washingtonian with a lifelong passion for local history, which he writes about on his blog, Streets of Washin...

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

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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...

Valuing Place and Purpose: GIS for Land Administration - Paperback

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by Brent Jones (Editor), Keith Mann (Editor)Modern land administration applies geospatial thinking to better understand and plan the proper use, conservation, and equitable use of land and property. Location intelligence is changing the way land administration works to protect and maintain appropriate land use and achieve better economic, environmental, and social benefits. The real-life stories in Valuing Place and Purpose: GIS for Land Administration show how communities, government agencie...

Get Your House Right: Architectural Elements to Use & Avoid - Paperback

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by Marianne Cusato (Author), Ben Pentreath (Author), Richard Sammons (Author)Sick of McMansions? Marianne Cusato, creator of the award-winning Katrina Cottages, is a champion of traditional architectural principles: structural common sense, aesthetics of form, appropriateness to a neighborhood, and sustainability. She presents the definitive guide to what makes houses look and feel right, revealing the dos and donts of livable home design. Hundreds of elegant line drawings--rendering the vari...

Interiors for a Life in Good Taste - Hardcover

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by Caroline Gidiere (Author), Isabel Parra (Photographer)A fresh perspective on classic American interior design and practical advice on living well in our modern world, in this much-anticipated work from a rising decorator. Gidiere's design aesthetic is a modern take on traditional interiors, using contemporary and antique furniture with backdrops of joyful color and pattern to create spaces that are both new and classical--florals, botanical prints, rush baskets, tailored stripes, well-stoc...

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by Jeffrey Alan Marks (Author), John Saladino (Foreword by)Designer Marks's second book celebrates his relaxed and refined interiors inspired by the stylish ease and laid-back coastal feel of Southern California. Since the launch of his first book and hit TV Show Million Dollar Decorators, Jeffrey Alan Marks has married and become a father. His growing family grounds his new book, a celebration of the idea of home as represented in ten houses, bookended by his own on the West and East Coasts....

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by Lauren Markham (Author)"Markham delivers a probing meditation on grief, memory, and memorialization... Plaintive and powerful, this is hard to forget."--Publishers WeeklyA speculative essay on language in the face of climate catastrophe: how we memorialize what has been lost and what soon will be, pushing public imagination into generative realms."I am in need of a word," writes Lauren Markham in an email to the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, an organization that coins neologisms. She des...

A Brief Atlas of the Lighthouses at the End of the World - Hardcover

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by José Luis González Macías (Author)A unique illustrated exploration of our favorite oceanic beacons and their haunted histories. There is something beautiful and wild in the impossible architecture of lighthouses. These precariously perched structures have been the homes and workplaces of keepers whose romantic guardianship has saved countless lives from cruel seas. While that way of life may have faded away, as the lights go out and the buildings crumble, we still have their stories. This...

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by David Frazer Lewis (Author)A.W.N. Pugin transformed the Gothic Revival from an architectural style into an international movement. He decorated and furnished the Houses of Parliament, creating one of the icons of modern British identity in the process. His church designs were vastly influential, and although he was staunchly Roman Catholic, he did much to set the aesthetic tone of modern Anglicanism. The house he designed for himself at Ramsgate transformed the Victorian Gothic villa, demo...

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World - Hardcover

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by Deb Chachra (Author)NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2023 BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Revelatory, superbly written, and pulsing with wisdom and humanity, How Infrastructure Works is a masterpiece." --Ed Yong, author of An Immense World A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, and all around us Infrastructure is a marvel, meeting our basic needs and enabling lives of astounding ease and productivity that would have been unimaginable just a century ago. It is the ...

The Egyptian Book of the Dead: Deluxe Slipcase Edition - Hardcover

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by Ea Wallis Budge (Translator), Arcturus Publishing (Author)Deliver me from the Watchers who bear slaughtering knives, and who have cruel fingers. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is an ancient collection of spells, prayers and incantations designed to guide the departed through the perils of the underworld, ultimately ensuring eternal life. Written as part of funeral rites, these scrolls were often left in the sarcophagus of the deceased and now offer fascinating insight into Egyptian culture....

Farrow & Ball How to Redecorate: Transform Your Home with Paint & Paper - Hardcover

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by Joa Studholme (Author), Charlotte Cosby (Author)An extensively revised edition of one of the bestselling interiors books of the last decade - from the internationally renowned paint company that keeps on growing. The second edition of Farrow & Ball: How to Decorate, now titled How to Redecorate, brings the invaluable advice from the first edition right up to date in line with current trends, including catering for the home-working age. The book reflects the seismic shift in the way w...

Wabi-Sabi Welcome: Learning to Embrace the Imperfect and Entertain with Thoughtfulness and Ease - Hardcover

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by Julie Pointer Adams (Author)"An antidote to the veneer of perfectionism so often presented by books of its kind, Wabi-Sabi Welcome offers readers license to slow down and host guests with humility, intention, and contentment." --Nathan Williams, founder of Kinfolk Wabi-Sabi Welcome is sharing a pot of tea with friends. It is preparing delicious food to nourish, not to show off. It's keeping a basket of cozy slippers at the door for guests. It is well-worn linens, bouquets of foraged branch...

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by Jenni Kayne (Author), Vincent Van Duysen (Foreword by)Jenni Kayne, the creator of the laid-back, luxe California lifestyle brand, shows us how to create spaces that encourage living well in comfort and style by featuring beautiful and inspiring interiors along with practical room-by-room tips. A known tastemaker and authority on style, Jenni Kayne spans the worlds of fashion, interiors, and entertaining. Inspired by organic textures, thoughtful simplicity, and natural landscapes, Kayne em...

Aalto in Detail: A Catalogue of Components - Hardcover

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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...

100 Interiors Around the World - Hardcover

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by Taschen (Editor)Making stops in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia, this edition rounds up some of today's most exceptional and inspiring interiors across six continents. From rustic minimalism to urbane eclecticism, the selection celebrates a global spectrum of styles, united by authenticity, a love of detail, and a zest for individual expression that will never go out of fashion. Includes interiors in Argentina, Brazil, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, Gre...