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MAKE IT FABULOUS: The Architecture and Designs of William T. Georgis
Written by William T. Georgis, Donald Albrecht and Natalie Shivers
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $50.00
Sumptuous and scrupulous in equal measure, the work of William T. Georgis is a glamorous blend of high-style architecture and expressive, innovative applications of the traditions of the decorative arts. In the twenty years since he founded his namesake firm, Georgis has created a dazzling portfolio consisting primarily of houses and... Read more >
Written by William T. Georgis, Donald Albrecht and Natalie Shivers
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: June 4, 2013
Price: $50.00
Sumptuous and scrupulous in equal measure, the work of William T. Georgis is a glamorous blend of high-style architecture and expressive, innovative applications of the traditions of the decorative arts. In the twenty years since he founded his namesake firm, Georgis has created a dazzling portfolio consisting primarily of houses and... Read more >
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The Country Blacksmith
Written by David L. McDougall
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $12.95
This book tells the story of the country blacksmith and his importance as the hub of village life. It describes his techniques, tools, and contribution to rural work. It includes the mythology of the blacksmith and the good fortune brought by horseshoes - and which way to hang them up! Thought... Read more >
Written by David L. McDougall
Format: Trade Paperback, 70 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $12.95
This book tells the story of the country blacksmith and his importance as the hub of village life. It describes his techniques, tools, and contribution to rural work. It includes the mythology of the blacksmith and the good fortune brought by horseshoes - and which way to hang them up! Thought... Read more >
The Country Blacksmith
Written by David McDougall
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $7.95
This book tells the story of the country blacksmith and his importance as the hub of village life. It describes his techniques, tools, and contribution to rural work. It includes the mythology of the blacksmith and the good fortune brought by horseshoes - and which way to hang them up! Thought... Read more >
Written by David McDougall
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: May 21, 2013
Price: $7.95
This book tells the story of the country blacksmith and his importance as the hub of village life. It describes his techniques, tools, and contribution to rural work. It includes the mythology of the blacksmith and the good fortune brought by horseshoes - and which way to hang them up! Thought... Read more >
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Our Own Snug Fireside
Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860
Written by Jane Nylander
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 15, 2013
Price: $24.99
Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860
Written by Jane Nylander
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 15, 2013
Price: $24.99
This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Drawing on diaries, letters, wills, newspapers, and other sources, Jane C. Nylander provides intimate details about preparing dinner, spinning and weaving textiles, washing and ironing laundry, planning a social outing, and...
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Designers Abroad: Inside the Vacation Homes of Top Decorators
Written by Michele Keith
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $50.00
Designers Abroad, Michele Keith's follow-up to her highly successful book Designers Here and There, features twenty-two vacation homes of today's top interior designers, exquisitely captured in over 200 lush color photographs.
For some, vacation homes offer an opportunity to escape from the office, to shut off, to wind down. For... Read more >
Written by Michele Keith
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $50.00
Designers Abroad, Michele Keith's follow-up to her highly successful book Designers Here and There, features twenty-two vacation homes of today's top interior designers, exquisitely captured in over 200 lush color photographs.
For some, vacation homes offer an opportunity to escape from the office, to shut off, to wind down. For... Read more >
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French Accents
At Home with Parisian Objects and Details
Written by Erin Swift
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $40.00
This lavishly illustrated volume shows you how to choose fabulous French decorating details to create interiors with an unforgettable sense of sophistication and charm. French details are the key to achieving the effortless chic of the French home.
The first step is to understand how the French see—blending rich tradition with... Read more >
At Home with Parisian Objects and Details
Written by Erin Swift
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $40.00
This lavishly illustrated volume shows you how to choose fabulous French decorating details to create interiors with an unforgettable sense of sophistication and charm. French details are the key to achieving the effortless chic of the French home.
The first step is to understand how the French see—blending rich tradition with... Read more >
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Albert Speer
Architecture 1932-1942
Written by Leon Krier
Preface by Robert A. M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $75.00
Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect of choice, happens to be responsible for one of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of modern times.
First published in 1985 to an acute and critical reception, Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942 is a lucid... Read more >
Architecture 1932-1942
Written by Leon Krier
Preface by Robert A. M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $75.00
Architect Léon Krier asks, “Can a war criminal be a great artist?” Speer, Adolf Hitler's architect of choice, happens to be responsible for one of the boldest architectural and urban oeuvres of modern times.
First published in 1985 to an acute and critical reception, Albert Speer: Architecture 1932-1942 is a lucid... Read more >
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Artful Decoration
Written by Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman
Introduction by Margaret Russell
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $50.00
Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman delight in the unexpected. They revel in beautiful contradictions to create interiors that blend the exotic and the traditional and refresh classic ideas with handmade, whimsical details. Both designers contribute an essential element to every project: Andrew Fisher injects opulence and glamour, hand-decorating chandeliers with shells... Read more >
Written by Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman
Introduction by Margaret Russell
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: March 19, 2013
Price: $50.00
Andrew Fisher and Jeffry Weisman delight in the unexpected. They revel in beautiful contradictions to create interiors that blend the exotic and the traditional and refresh classic ideas with handmade, whimsical details. Both designers contribute an essential element to every project: Andrew Fisher injects opulence and glamour, hand-decorating chandeliers with shells... Read more >
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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... Read more >
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... Read more >
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The Church
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $21.99
From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.
Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this thought-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the importance of the Church in its many... Read more >
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $21.99
From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.
Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this thought-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the importance of the Church in its many... Read more >
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The Church
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.
Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this through-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the importance of the Church in its many... Read more >
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.
Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this through-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the importance of the Church in its many... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
Chicago's Bridges
Written by Nathan Holth
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $7.95
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... Read more >
Written by Nathan Holth
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2013
Price: $7.95
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... Read more >
Also available as a
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Cohler on Design
Written by Eric Cohler
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $50.00
Dubbed “The Mixmaster” for his ability to blend high- and low-end pieces to create rooms that are simultaneously fresh and classic, Eric Cohler’s interior design is always a tribute to individual personality and style. Full of accessible tips and tricks, Cohler encourages his clients to be true to themselves, revel in... Read more >
Written by Eric Cohler
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $50.00
Dubbed “The Mixmaster” for his ability to blend high- and low-end pieces to create rooms that are simultaneously fresh and classic, Eric Cohler’s interior design is always a tribute to individual personality and style. Full of accessible tips and tricks, Cohler encourages his clients to be true to themselves, revel in... Read more >
The Tube
Station to Station on the London Underground
Written by Oliver Green
Format: eBook, 120 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $7.95
From Norman Foster’s remarkable station at Canary Wharf to the Yellow-brick vaults of Baker street to the Art Deco exuberance of Arnos Grove, London’s tube stations are among its most distinctive and iconic buildings. This beautiful hardback edition is a fantastic gift-book, publishing in the run up to Christmas, and sales... Read more >
Station to Station on the London Underground
Written by Oliver Green
Format: eBook, 120 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $7.95
From Norman Foster’s remarkable station at Canary Wharf to the Yellow-brick vaults of Baker street to the Art Deco exuberance of Arnos Grove, London’s tube stations are among its most distinctive and iconic buildings. This beautiful hardback edition is a fantastic gift-book, publishing in the run up to Christmas, and sales... Read more >
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hardcover.
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Southern Plantations
Written by Robin Lattimore
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $9.95
Once the lifeblood of large estates and farms throughout the American South and East, antebellum plantations today serve as windows into one of the most controversial eras of U.S. history. Though many of these grand homes have been lost, scores more still exist, some as National Memorial sites, National Historic Landmarks... Read more >
Written by Robin Lattimore
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $9.95
Once the lifeblood of large estates and farms throughout the American South and East, antebellum plantations today serve as windows into one of the most controversial eras of U.S. history. Though many of these grand homes have been lost, scores more still exist, some as National Memorial sites, National Historic Landmarks... Read more >
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Contemporary Follies
Written by Keith Moskow and Robert Linn
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $40.00
Contemporary Follies showcases outstanding examples of contemporary design that address our place in nature. Emerging from the Enlightenment spirit of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson, the English picturesque folly, and the forest retreats of Scandinavian modernists, these projects inspire contemplation and creativity in their spatial energy and alliance with the environment... Read more >
Written by Keith Moskow and Robert Linn
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $40.00
Contemporary Follies showcases outstanding examples of contemporary design that address our place in nature. Emerging from the Enlightenment spirit of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Jefferson, the English picturesque folly, and the forest retreats of Scandinavian modernists, these projects inspire contemplation and creativity in their spatial energy and alliance with the environment... Read more >
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Going to Town
Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
Written by Katherine Ashenburg
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.99
Winner of The Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.
With 300 photos and 11 maps.
A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario’s architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges... Read more >
Architectural Walking Tours in Southern Ontario
Written by Katherine Ashenburg
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $14.99
Winner of The Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History.
With 300 photos and 11 maps.
A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario’s architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Evidence
The Work of Robert A. M. Stern Architects
Written by Robert A. M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $50.00
Robert A. M. Stern Architects, over its forty-year history and across a wide range of building types, has defined principles common to all projects. Stern articulates the ideas that govern his design process through this rich visual presentation of all types of his work: museums and cultural institutions, colleges and universities... Read more >
The Work of Robert A. M. Stern Architects
Written by Robert A. M. Stern
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $50.00
Robert A. M. Stern Architects, over its forty-year history and across a wide range of building types, has defined principles common to all projects. Stern articulates the ideas that govern his design process through this rich visual presentation of all types of his work: museums and cultural institutions, colleges and universities... Read more >
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Capital Views
Historic Photographs of Washington, DC, Alexandria and Loudoun County, Virginia, and Frederick County, Maryland
Written by James M. Goode
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $39.95
Metropolitan areas change over the time. These changes come together and create a city's character and personality. Renowned Washington, DC, historian James Goode has assembled an incredible collection of images that look back at a Washington before it developed into the international metropolitan city it is today. The impactful historic photography... Read more >
Historic Photographs of Washington, DC, Alexandria and Loudoun County, Virginia, and Frederick County, Maryland
Written by James M. Goode
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $39.95
Metropolitan areas change over the time. These changes come together and create a city's character and personality. Renowned Washington, DC, historian James Goode has assembled an incredible collection of images that look back at a Washington before it developed into the international metropolitan city it is today. The impactful historic photography... Read more >
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The Tube
Station to Station on the London Underground
Written by Oliver Green
Format: Hardcover, 120 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.95
Read more >
Station to Station on the London Underground
Written by Oliver Green
Format: Hardcover, 120 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $12.95
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Stripes
Design Between the Lines
Written by Linda O'Keeffe
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $50.00
In Stripes: Design Between the Lines, writer and design expert Linda O’Keeffe explores the lineage of lines as they shape culture, art, and style. The illustrations create a rollicking visual ride while the accompanying text—by turns witty and weighty—shows how these potent, sometimes-charged symbols have even changed the course of world... Read more >
Design Between the Lines
Written by Linda O'Keeffe
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: October 23, 2012
Price: $50.00
In Stripes: Design Between the Lines, writer and design expert Linda O’Keeffe explores the lineage of lines as they shape culture, art, and style. The illustrations create a rollicking visual ride while the accompanying text—by turns witty and weighty—shows how these potent, sometimes-charged symbols have even changed the course of world... Read more >
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La Formentera
The Woodland Refuge of Juan Montoya
Photographed by Eric Piasecki
Introduction by Karen Lehrman Bloch
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $65.00
In the 1970s, renowned interior designer Juan Montoya lived on La Formentera, a Balearic Island off the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Later, near Garrison, New York, Montoya acquired land and built his place of solace, his own La Formentera. He fulfilled his dream of a property that could evoke the same... Read more >
The Woodland Refuge of Juan Montoya
Photographed by Eric Piasecki
Introduction by Karen Lehrman Bloch
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: October 9, 2012
Price: $65.00
In the 1970s, renowned interior designer Juan Montoya lived on La Formentera, a Balearic Island off the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Later, near Garrison, New York, Montoya acquired land and built his place of solace, his own La Formentera. He fulfilled his dream of a property that could evoke the same... Read more >
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Edith Wharton at Home
Life at the Mount
Written by Richard Guy Wilson
Photographed by John Arthur
Introduction by Pauline C. Metcalf
Format: Hardcover, 188 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $45.00
The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth. The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book The Decoration of Houses, and the... Read more >
Life at the Mount
Written by Richard Guy Wilson
Photographed by John Arthur
Introduction by Pauline C. Metcalf
Format: Hardcover, 188 pages
On Sale: September 4, 2012
Price: $45.00
The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth. The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book The Decoration of Houses, and the... Read more >
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Georgian Garden Buildings
Written by Sarah Rutherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.95
Georgian garden buildings often seem monuments to rich mens' folly and whimsy, but they always had a purpose, whether functional or ornamental. Today they are valued for their social history and their key place in the history of architecture and landscape design, as well as often for their sheer beauty or... Read more >
Written by Sarah Rutherford
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $15.95
Georgian garden buildings often seem monuments to rich mens' folly and whimsy, but they always had a purpose, whether functional or ornamental. Today they are valued for their social history and their key place in the history of architecture and landscape design, as well as often for their sheer beauty or... Read more >
Landscape Graphics
Written by Grant Reid
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $16.99
Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the... Read more >
Written by Grant Reid
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2012
Price: $16.99
Announcing the new revised edition of the classic industry reference! Landscape Graphics is the architect’s ultimate guide to all the basic graphics techniques used in landscape design and landscape architecture. Progressing from the basics into more sophisticated techniques, this guide offers clear instruction on graphic language and the design process, the... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
