740 Park
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $16.95
For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day...
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Nice House
Written by Samuel G. White
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $45.00
“White's project descriptions are lucid, brief and hype-free, and they come stocked with floor plans. He describes terrain contours, materials and palette choices and circulation patterns…This is a practical yet mouthwatering and aspirational study of architects helping people honor the streetscape, keep properties saleable and upgrade their home life by several...
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A Place of My Own
The Education of an Amateur Builder
Written by Michael Pollan
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 6, 2013
Price: $11.99
At a turning point in his life, writer Michael Pollan found himself dreaming of a small wood-frame hut in the woods near his house--a place to work, but also a "shelter for daydreams." Weaving the practical with the philosophical, this book presents a captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture...
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740 Park
The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building
Written by Michael Gross
Format: eBook, 576 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $13.99
For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day...
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Barcelona The Great Enchantress
Written by Robert Hughes
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2007
Price: $12.95
Robert Hughes has been a regular visitor to Barcelona since the 1960s and published a book about the city in 1992 that was quickly hailed as a classic. In
Barcelona the Great Enchantress, Hughes crafts a more personal tale of his nearly forty-year love affair with the Spanish metropolis, one of...
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Thomas Heatherwick
Making
Written by Thomas Heatherwick
Format: Hardcover, 600 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2012
Price: $75.00
The first retrospective publication on the work of award-winning designer Thomas Heatherwick (the subject of a 2012 exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum) offers an in-depth look at all aspects of the innovator's creative, design, and manufacturing processes.
Heatherwick is known as one of the greatest innovators of our era...
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