Modern Luxury
Written by Richard Mishaan
Foreword by Pamela Fiori
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $50.00
Interior designer Richard Mishaan believes that all good furniture and art can be combined successfully regardless of style, period, or price. Drawing on his international background and love of travel, he combs the world to find exquisite, unique pieces for his clients. Mishaan skillfully brings together furnishings and objects from myriad...
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At Home
A Short History of Private Life
Written by Bill Bryson
Read by Bill Bryson
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: October 5, 2010
Price: $45.00
From one of the most beloved authors of our time—more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone—a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”
Bill Bryson and his family...
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Rafael Moneo
Remarks on 21 Works
Written by Rafael Moneo
Format: Hardcover, 668 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $75.00
Rafael Moneo is a courageous architect, one who for decades has defined his own style of architecture. With a sensitivity to materials and context unmatched by any living architect, Moneo has created a series of important works, including the Audrey Jones Beck Building at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston...
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Edwin Lutyens
Country Houses
Written by Gavin Stamp
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $65.00
Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944), perhaps the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, was introduced by garden designer Gertrude Jekyll, his celebrated collaborator, to Edward Hudson, the founder of the great British magazine
Country Life, in 1889. Hudson thereafter did all he could to promote the work of a man he admired...
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The New French Interior
Written by Penny Drue Baird
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $50.00
Through her first book,
Bringing Paris Home, Penny Drue Baird established herself as an authority on all things French—interior design, flea market and antiques shopping, Parisian life, and stylish entertaining. In
The New French Interior, she moves beyond the traditional historic styles to explore the design elements that make up the...
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The Colors of Nature
Subtropical Gardens by Raymond Jungles
Written by Raymond Jungles
Foreword by Terence Riley
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 28, 2008
Price: $50.00
In exquisite gardens inspired by the lush native plants of his adopted home of Miami, landscape artist/architect Raymond Jungles uses nature as a means of self-expression. He is known for modernist groupings of geometric shapes, which highlight the natural aspects of plantings, water features, and native stone. His use of plants...
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Chicago's Bridges
Written by Nathan Holth
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: July 24, 2012
Price: $9.95
Stretching more than 150 miles and cutting through the city that bears its name, the Chicago River divides the Second City into the North Side and the South Side. In 1832, the first bridge across the river was constructed. In 1834, the first moveable bridge was erected. Today, Chicago is home...
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