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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...

50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright - Hardcover

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by Aaron Betsky (Author), Gideon Fink Shapiro (Author), Andrew Pielage (Photographer)50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright begins with a simple question. What lessons can designers today learn from Frank Lloyd Wright? Unlike recent books focusing on Wright's tumultuous personal life and the Taliesin Fellowship, and equally unlike certain works that paint Wright as a mythical hero or genius, this handsome and valuable volume aims to reveal some of the design tools Wright used to create ...

Sacred Sites. the Library of Esoterica - Hardcover

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by Jessica Hundley (Author)A visual pilgrimage through holy mountains, great pyramids, and golden shrines, Sacred Sites celebrates the ways we transform the world around us through ritual, creativity, and worship. Essays, interviews and more than 400 images explore spaces ranging from ancient temples to modern works of spatial art. Number of Pages: 520 Publication Date: July 04, 2024

The Octagon House: A Home for All - Paperback

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by Orson Squire Fowler (Author), B. Madeleine Stern (Introduction by)In the mid-19th Century America was host to a curious architectural trend: the octagonal house. Such eight-sided homes-as well as schools, churches, barns, and businesses-were popping up across the country so quickly that by 1857 over 1,000 had been built. Though the craze has long since subsided, the book that started it all remains a valuable and curious artifact of architectural history. A phrenologist by trade and eccent...

The Essential Interior Design Handbook Volume One: An introductory guide to the world of Interior Design / Interior Architect / Spatial Design and how - Paperback

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by Darryl Peter Claxton (Author)Introducing 'The Essential Interior Design Handbook', the book with all the essential information needed for planning and carrying out your interior project of all shapes and sizes, from a small one-bedroom apartment to a large 1000-room Casino. It's formatted so that it's easy to read on your travels, inside the classroom or in the office. Full of essential knowledge, tips, tricks and processes to get you started in the exciting field of Interior Design.What i...

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...

American Icons Volume 2: Building the Nation: Transformations and Resilience

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Report copyright infringementby Gestalten (Editor), Sam Lubell (Editor)Building on the foundation laid by American Icons, American Icons Volume 2 continues the exploration of American architecture, chronicling its evolution and the iconic structures that define the nation's skylines. Showcasing 80 projects and enriched with four insightful essays, this sequel delves into the architectural diversity spanning from private residences to public museums and towering skyscrapers. Organized by eras ...

Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Sherlock (Author), Ioana Pioaru (Illustrator)Spending his weekends exploring historic churches across the idyllic English countryside - and sharing their beauty and unsung history across social media - Luke Sherlock is bringing English history and the heritage of our rural countryside to a new audience. England is full of incredible churches, from small stone chapels and quiet Romanesque masterpieces, to thousand-year-old Saxon stalwarts, dramatic Gothic m...

Relaxed Elegance: Rooms for Living Well - Hardcover

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by Brittany Bromley (Author)The first book from interior designer Bromley, whose rooms brim with a welcoming sensibility that reveal her fresh, colorful, pattern-filled take on traditional design. Known for a pretty and polished Palm Beach meets Park Avenue aesthetic, Bromley's interiors are beloved. Often described as "classic with a kick," her work is steeped in history but infused with a modernity that reflects how her clients want to live today. Bromley's first book showcases her interior...

Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman

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Report copyright infringementby Emily Gee (Author)Hostel, House and Chambers is the first comprehensive study of the campaigns to house a new generation of working women, the specialised design of the buildings and the women whose lives were changed by this architectural movement. After 1900, the rapid rise of women working as clerks, secretaries or typists, in London and other cities, created an urgent need for affordable and respectable accommodation. Building on models of elegant Victorian...

New York City Monuments of Black Americans: A History and Guide

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Report copyright infringementby David Felsen (Author)New York City is blessed with an incredible array of public sculptures. One overlooked aspect of this collection is its monuments of Black Americans, each with its own remarkable story. The first appearance of a Black person in a city monument came in the Civil War Soldiers' Monument in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery in 1876, but this was a nameless symbolic figure. It wasn't until 1945 that Booker T. Washington became the first identifiabl...

Guide to the Construction of Gothic Details

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Report copyright infringementby F. Roseling (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enou...

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Report copyright infringementby Eric Todd Inglert (Author)Contemporary Practices in Architectural Drawing and Illustration: Volume I is the first textbook in a two-volume series that helps students better understand and embrace the importance of both hand-drawn and digital drawings in architecture, engineering, and construction. Volume I provides students with an introduction to the history, theory, and process of architectural drawing and emphasizes the importance of a deliberate drawing pro...

Abundance Not Capital: The Lively Architecture of Anupama Kundoo

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Report copyright infringementby Angelika Fitz (Editor), Elke Krasny (Editor), Architekturzentrum Wien (Editor)What if architecture were not an instrument of capital? How to imagine and build a non-extractivist and non-exploitative architecture. Capital's voracious appetite forces architecture into a regime of "never enough." The current realities of building involve extraction and exploitation, which, in turn, cause climate breakdown, environmental ruin, alienated labor conditions, and the de...

The House That She Built Coloring and Activity Book - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Mollie Elkman (Author), Georgia Castellano (Artist) Number of Pages: 42 Dimensions: 0.09 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publication Date: February 24, 2023

Everything is Design: The Hidden Ethics of Our Objects and Public Spaces

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Report copyright infringementby Alan J. Reid (Author)Ethics - to put it concisely - is 'mindful well-being'. It is a set of standards that guides how we treat ourselves, one another, and the environment. When we design things for public use, we also communicate an ethical perspective. When we use things designed for us, we adopt their ethics. This book synthesizes several different disciplines as they relate to design, ethics, and the built environment. Our objects, according to philosophers ...

Insect Intelligence: An Illustrated Study of Insect Art and Design for the Real World

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Report copyright infringementby R. Clay (Author), Lula Crowder (Illustrator)Insect Intelligence: A Study of Insect Art and Design for the Real World is a 21st-century speculative adaptation of Insect Manufactures, originally published in 1847 by R. Clay, a printer in London. The original volume, written by an unknown scholar for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, has been reimagined in this new edition, which features both original illustrations and text alongside updated images a...

Russian Fractals in Indigenous Artifacts

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Report copyright infringementby Abdul Karim Bangura (Author), Leonid A. Zhigun (Author)This book is the first comprehensive work on Russian Fractals in indigenous artifacts. While existing works focus on universal phenomena, such as liquid crystal or finance, none explore the intersection between Fractals and Russia. 'Russian Fractals in Indigenous Artifacts' therefore investigates how indigenous Russian cultures have a wonderful Fractal heritage that was originally tied to socially just and ...

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Report copyright infringementby Unccd/G20 Global Land Initiative (Editor), Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (Editor)Brings together works of art and science to raise awareness of the ecological restoration of land. Land is a life-sustaining link between Earth's climate and biodiversity and offers a wide variety of ecosystems that need to be restored and preserved. Half of humanity is already affected by the negative effects of industrial overuse of soils and massive land degradation. This volume vivid...

Agrippa I: A Comprehensive Archaeological Study of the Last King of Roman Judaea and a True Crime Inquiry

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Report copyright infringementby Elizabeth Legge (Author)Agrippa I: A Comprehensive Archaeological Study of the Last King of Roman Judaea and a True Crime InquiryDelve into the fascinating world of Agrippa I, the last king of Roman Judaea, through this meticulously researched and riveting exploration. Written by a classical archaeologist and doctor of medicine candidate with prior degrees in classical studies and the biological sciences, this book offers a comprehensive archaeological study of...

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Report copyright infringementby Arata Isozaki (Contribution by), Yoshiharu Matsumura (Photographer), Manfred Speidel (Contribution by)A captivating and comprehensively illustrated study of the seventeenth-century Katsura Imperial Villa in Kyoto, JapanAn outstanding example of Japanese architecture, Katsura has inspired countless architects from Bruno Taut and Le Corbusier to Tadao Ando and Kenzo Tange, and is often considered a precursor of Modernist tendencies.Now available in a new format, ...

Small Venues: Precarity, Vibrancy and Live Music

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Report copyright infringementby Sam Whiting (Author)Throughout the history of popular music, the careers of many culturally significant artists and groups began on the small stages of local bars clubs, pubs, and discotheques. When the stories of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and the New York punk hardcore and post punk scenes are told, iconic venues such as The Cavern, The Marquee and CBGB's serve as the settings of their early chapters Small live music venues such as these are pivotal in the na...

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Report copyright infringementby Gavin Stamp (Author)British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo - but the reality was far more diverse. As the modernists came of age and the traditionalists began to decline, there arose a rich variety of styles and tastes in Britain and across the empire, a variety that reflected the restless zeitgeist of the years ...

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Report copyright infringementby Henry F. Lenning (Author) Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.34 x 11 x 8.25 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1951

The Early Baroque Era: From the late 16th century to the 1660s

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Report copyright infringementby Curtis Price (Editor) Number of Pages: 416 Dimensions: 0.85 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: November 09, 1993

How to Help Your Child Cope with Anything

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Report copyright infringementby Alison McClymont (Author) Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 1.25 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 06, 2025

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Cruttenden Mace (Author), Herbert Eustis Winlock (Author)The Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht is a book written by Arthur Cruttenden Mace and published in 1916. The book is a detailed account of Mace��s excavation of the tomb of Senebtisi, a high-ranking official of the Twelfth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, located in the Lisht necropolis. The book contains a description of the tomb��s architecture, decorations, and artifacts, as well as Mace��s int...