Made to Order

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Clean and simple design coupled with an embrace of color, beautifully crafted millwork, and environmentally friendly materials are hallmarks of the work of Campion Platt.
          
Every project is firmly rooted in the belief that handcrafting a home of one’s own should be a pleasure, and that an individualized, intensely personal interior can be achieved on any budget when an honest conversation is opened with a designer, or yourself, about wh... More >>

Made to Order

Exploring Color : How to Use and Control Color in Your Paintings

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This text illustrates the principles of using colour with numerous paintings and exercises designed to demonstrate how to use colour to plan stronger designs, develop better compositions, and convey moods and emotions.... More >>

Exploring Color : How to Use and Control Color in Your Paintings

The Urban Design Reader

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Drawing together the very best of classic and contemporary writings, this informative book illuminates the theory and practice of urban design. Forty-one generous selections include contributions from Le Corbusier and Jacobs through to Hayden and Gillham.

This book provides an essential resource for students and practitioners of urban design, drawing together important but widely dispersed writings. Section and selection introductions are provided to assist ... More >>

The Urban Design Reader

Matter in the Floating World: Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers

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It can be argued that Japan contains a higher number of internationally significant architects and designers relative to its geographic size than anywhere else in the world. Japanese designers regularly implement radical experiments in new materials and building systems that successfully address imminent energy and resource challenges. These technological achievements are combined with an acute awareness of the ephemerality of materials as well as an engagement with... More >>

Matter in the Floating World: Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers

Homes & Courtyards: 28 Beautifully Designed Homes for Outdoor Living

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Filled with stunning color photos, floor plans and site layouts, this book takes readers on an amazing tour of 23 new homes and 5 to-be-built projects featuring marvelous courtyards, patios, decks and other outdoor spaces. Published by the creators of the national bestseller, Tuscan & Andalusian Reflections, this new book is a "must-have" for consumers, home planners, builders, architects, interior designers or anyone who enjoys superb indoor and outdoor living.... More >>

Homes & Courtyards: 28 Beautifully Designed Homes for Outdoor Living

Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies

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Want to build responsibly, reduce waste, and help preserve the environment? Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies is your friendly, step-by-step guide to every facet of this Earth-friendly method of construction. Building a home—even a green home—uses plenty of resources and energy. This practical, hands-on book shows you how to build or remodel conscientiously, whether your dream home is a simple remodel or a brand-new multimillion-dollar mansion.You’ll sta... More >>

Green Building & Remodeling For Dummies

This Is Not a Pipe: 25th Anniversary Edition

• ISBN13: 9780520236943
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What does it mean to write "This is not a pipe" across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte's famous canvas provides the starting point for a delightful homage by French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault. Much better known for his incisive and mordant explorations of power and social exclusion, Foucault here assumes a more playful stance. By exploring the nuances and ambiguities of Magritte's visual critique of language, he finds the painter ... More >>

This Is Not a Pipe: 25th Anniversary Edition

Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating and Air Conditioning

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Ideal for students and beginning technicians, Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating and Air Conditioning, 6E zeroes in on the basic electrical principles necessary to understand today's modern control systems. This extraordinarily practical approach allows readers to focus exclusively on the electronics information they will use in the field, without bogging them down in unnecessary theory. Newly-updated in direct response to user feedback, this edition now feature... More >>

Electricity for Refrigeration, Heating and Air Conditioning

Tiny Houses

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With “McMansions” increasingly giving way to “tiny” houses, the desire to downsize and be more ecologically and economically prudent is a concept many are beginning to embrace. Focusing on dwelling spaces all under 1,000 square feet, TINY HOUSES (Rizzoli, April 2009) by Mimi Zeiger aims to challenge readers to take a look at their own homes and consider how much space they actively use.
Ranging from tree houses to floating houses, TINY HOUSESMore >>

Tiny Houses

Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 1: Early Baroque

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A first book in the three volume survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture which focuses on the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods.... More >>

Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 1: Early Baroque

Richard Gillette: The Art of the Interior

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The first monograph on the work of Richard Gillette, a visionary designer whose elegant interiors are inspired by the works of the great artists of history. Richard Gillette is one of America’s leading interior designers, lauded for his comprehensively conceived and exquisitely detailed rooms. A painter by training, his work draws inspiration from the great masters, ranging from artists of the ancient world and the luminaries of the Enlightenment to such familiar ... More >>

Richard Gillette: The Art of the Interior

Eduardo Souto De Moura

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Though not extremely well known outside his native Portugal, Eduardo Souto de Moura (b. 1952) has designed and built more than 50 projects in his 25-year career. He has attracted increasing interest in the international architecture world of late with a number of private houses completed in the past five years, including one for the distinguished film director Manoel de Oliveira. Souto de Moura worked with Alvaro Siza in the late 1970s and opened his own practice in... More >>

Eduardo Souto De Moura

Die Baumgartnerhäuser - Basel 1926-1938

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Zwischen 1926 und 1938 erstellte die Architekturfirma Baumgartner & Hindermann in Basel rund 300 Mehrfamilienhäuser, die sich in fünf Quartieren ringförmig um das Stadtzentrum gruppieren. Als "Baumgartnerhäuser" sind sie bis heute in Basel ein Begriff: Man schätzt ihre selbstverständliche städtebauliche Einordnung und die hohe Wohnqualität, die sich u.a. in gut proportionierten, polyvalenten Räumen manifestiert. Dieses Buch zeigt erstmals, wie hier aus... More >>

Die Baumgartnerhäuser - Basel 1926-1938

At Home With White

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White can work in every home. Classic, timeless, easily adapted to changing fashions, and excellent for maximizing light, it is far from bland or boring. Authors Atlanta Bartlett and Karena Callen begin by showin you How to Use White to create a multitude of environments--from warm and homey through to cool and calm--with different textures and shades. Next, Creating a Mood with White describes five themes, Classic, Romantic, Beach, Country, and Modern, and demonstr... More >>

At Home With White

A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco

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The Medina -- the Old City -- of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-trod alleyways, thousand-year-old sewer systems, and Arab-style houses, gorgeous with intricate, if often shabby, mosaic work.While vacationing in Morocco, Suzanna Clarke and her husband, Sandy, are inspired to buy a dilapidated, centuries-old riad in Fez with the aim of ... More >>

A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco

Living with Books

• ISBN13: 9780500515433
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A varied and wonderful source of inspiration for all book lovers and collectors.Bookcases, bookshelves, entire rooms: more than simple storage spaces for books, these are unique decorative elements that reveal the personality and lifestyle of their owners. Home libraries are always personal and often evolving, whether they are specially created in a separate room or found in nooks and crannies all over the house, whether modern or traditional... More >>

Living with Books

Choosing Colors: An Expert Choice of the Best Colors to Use in Your Home

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This beautiful and unique reference provides an unrivaled mine of inspiration and ideas for anyone wishing to create a colorful new look for their home or garden! In this stunningly produced guide, internationally renowned interior designer Kevin McCloud puts together over 1,000 color chips arranged in over 80 palettes. Each palette-which includes anywhere from 6 to 16 color swatches-forms a blueprint for a unique decorative scheme. A palette based on old Chinese ... More >>

Choosing Colors: An Expert Choice of the Best Colors to Use in Your Home

How to Build Treehouses, Huts and Forts

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A treehouse is a wonderful idea, but how in the name of creation do you actually build one? In this delightfully illustrated handbook, David Stiles, the unofficial world grandmaster of the treehouse, shows how.

Not assuming anything about the treehouse builder, Stiles starts with the basics: how to nail, how to buy wood, what kind of screws and nails to use.

Then it's on to an A-frame design so simple that it can be built in a weekend out of four she... More >>

How to Build Treehouses, Huts and Forts

Plant-Driven Design: Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit

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This book is nothing short of revolutionary. For too long, garden design has given pride of place to architecture, artifice, and arbitrary principles. The results? Soulless landscapes where plants play subordinate roles. With passion and eloquence, Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden argue that only when plants are given the respect they deserve does a garden become emotionally resonant. Plant-Driven Design shows designers how to work more confidently with plants... More >>

Plant-Driven Design: Creating Gardens That Honor Plants, Place, and Spirit

Living with Wine: Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing

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America’s love of wine has spurred a collecting and entertaining phenomenon.

Some of America’s most passionate oenophiles have re-invented the wine cellar as an inviting and beautiful part of the home.

True collectors love to share their passion, and this book offers a tour of their distinctive cellars. Created with the help of some of the best designers in the field, these rooms blend luxurious design aesthetics with ingenious storage solu... More >>

Living with Wine: Passionate Collectors, Sophisticated Cellars, and Other Rooms for Entertaining, Enjoying, and Imbibing

Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition

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Hospitality is the world's fastest growing industry, and business—and pleasure travelers are demanding more diverse hotels, resorts and leisure-time amenities around the globe. This book explores the latest trends in hotel planning and design, capturing the vast range of today's most imaginative creations, from tower-high guestrooms to lavish desert villas to exotic resorts nestled by tropical-island waters. It outlines the essential criteri... More >>

Hotel Design, Planning, and Development, New Edition

Concrete at Home

• ISBN13: 9781561586820
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Fu-Tung Cheng's surprise bestseller Concrete Countertops paved the way for a fresh look at a familiar surface. His new book moves beyond the kitchen and transforms this commonplace material into an elegant medium that can be used throughout the house. Combining cutting-edge design with helpful how-to information, Concrete at Home offers ingenious ideas for planning and building walls, fireplaces, mantels, hearths, and exterior and interior floors, as well as tips on... More >>

Concrete at Home

Patio: Garden Design & Inspiration

• ISBN13: 9781741146547
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Packed with design instruction and horticulture tips, this paperback version of Jamie Durie's bestselling gardening-design book provides all the necessary information and inspiration to create glamorous garden and patio spaces. Stunning photographs highlight stylish, award-winning landscape designs created in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Each photograph is accompanied by a complete discussion of the design and its elements, including watering requi... More >>

Patio: Garden Design & Inspiration

Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town

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Architect A. Hays Town changed the face of the Louisiana house, and this volume honors that legacy. Color photographs of numerous homes, including Town's own, combine with illuminating text to produce a volume that captures the appeal and beauty of the state's finest architectural tradition. 200 color photos.... More >>

Louisiana Houses of A. Hays Town

Populuxe: The Look and Life of America in the '50s and '60s, from Tailfins and TV Dinners to Barbie Dolls and Fallout Shelters

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"Populuxe" - populism, popularity and luxury is the word coined by the author to express the atmosphere of American society during the decade 1954-1964. The book examines the new luxury products created at this time and the lifestyle they represent, so giving a tour of this era when the United States had a booming economy and was virtually unchallenged as a world power. It discusses the new world of mass suburbia where there was always a hope of being able to move u... More >>

Populuxe: The Look and Life of America in the '50s and '60s, from Tailfins and TV Dinners to Barbie Dolls and Fallout Shelters

Best-Selling Ranch Home Plans

• ISBN13: 9781580112727
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With beautiful, full-color photography and illustrations, Best-Selling Ranch Home Plans offers readers 350 of the best-selling and stylish home designs in this perennially popular category. Sprawling one-stories, grand windows, and rustic porches are a few of the essential architectural elements found in these charming designs. This book offers a wide variety of home styles and sizes within the ranch category to meet the budget of most readers, from starter homes to... More >>

Best-Selling Ranch Home Plans