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Architecture In Wood by Will Pryce,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publish date: november 2005
Number of pages: 320 pages
ISBN: 050034213X
ISBN13: 9780500342138

Pret : 85 Lei

Wood has unique qualities, yet is undervalued or ignored in histories of architecture. However, leading designers around the world are increasingly drawn to it to satisfy social and environmental needs.
New from acclaimed photographer Will Pryce, co-author of the bestselling Brick: A World History, comes the first comprehensive history of the traditions and achievements of international wooden architecture. Pryce’s spectacular photographs portray a dazzling, diverse collection of structures, spanning the globe and uniting the very beginnings of architecture with its 21st-century future, in which new buildings make a powerful environmental and aesthetic case for wood as a material for all time.

About author
Will Pryce is an award-winning photographer who trained as an architect and photojournalist. His pictures have made him the most admired architectural photographer in Britain. Intensely dramatic but not over-dramatized, technically flawless, but not merely documentary, they convey all the excitement of encountering these amazing structures first hand.

He has travelled the world seeking the famous and the obscure. In the substantial text he shows how the wooden heritage of Japan grew from its Buddhist history; how Russia’s carpenters determined its iconic domes; how Norway’s stave churches contain clues to her pagan past; how Turkic tribes brought the yali from Asia; how the settlers of New England would use a provincial English tradition on the new continent; and how, today, sophisticated architects such as Peter Zumthor and Renzo Piano are inventing an eloquent new wooden architecture.

Will Price studied architecture at Cambridge University and The Royal College of Art, and photojournalism at The London College of Printing. His most recent book is the hugely acclaimed Brick: A World History, in collaboration with the author James W. P. Campbell.

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Contains full-colour images with step-by-step instructions, which provide concise practical information and advice. Perfect for the beginner or busy gardener who wants to get results.

Pret: 13 Lei

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Home Decorating (101 Essential Tips) by Nicholas Barnard,
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd
Publish date: January 18, 1996
Number of pages: 72 pages
ISBN: 0751302287
ISBN13: 9780751302288

This guide to home decorating provides 101 stand-alone explanations which can be grasped in moments. It combines step-by-step photographs with an informative text.

Pret: 13 Ron

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Outdoor Living (B&Q) by B&Q,
Nicholas Barnard,
Ken Schept,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publish date: August 2005
Number of pages: 384 pages
ISBN: 0500512469
ISBN13: 9780500512463

Pret : 35 Lei

The Complete Step-by-step Guide to Designing and Enjoying Your Garden.
All the inspiration and advice you need to design, create, grow and enjoy your garden.
This companion to the bestseller You Can Do It once again pools the world-beating expertise of Thames & Hudson and B&Q.

A brilliantly designed layout and text blend clarity with inspiration on every page. Nine themed garden makeovers have been designed, built and planted specially for this volume, with step-by-step photos and drawings demonstrating each project in a clear, easy-to-follow fashion.

The book addresses and demystifies common garden concerns, and is crammed with tips to help the reader create their ideal garden from first inspiration all the way to month-by-month maintenance. A catalogue of recommended garden plants – all widely available and easy-to-grow – is also included.

Comprehensively combining garden design, Do It Yourself and horticulture in one good-looking and authoritative volume, Outdoor Living offers the reader all the knowledge and inspiration they will need to create their perfect outdoor room – and enjoy it to the full.

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At Home With The Makers Of Style by Grant Scott,
Samantha Scott-Jeffries,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publish date: October 31, 2005
Number of pages: 256 pages
ISBN: 0500512345
ISBN13: 9780500512340

Pret : 40 Lei

Here is a voyeuristic insight into the personal and professional surroundings of twenty-four of the worlds key designers, offering a unique opportunity to discover what these leading shapers of taste choose for themselves when creating their own space. They share their ideas on design, their own homes, who or what has inspired them, how they work, how we live and how we may be living in the future, all brilliantly illustrated with specially commissioned photography throughout.

About author

Grant Scott, now a full-time photographer, has art-directed many magazines, including The Tatler, as well as redesigning French and German Elle. Samantha Scott-Jeffries has worked in television, specializing in interior and design programmes, and in journalism writing for such magazines as Elle Decoration.

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The Vanguard Landscapes And Gardens Of Martha Schwartz by Martha Schwartz,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publish date: 2004
Number of pages: 224 pages
ISBN: 0500511314
ISBN13: 9780500511312

A monograph on Martha Schwartz, a US landscape designer of international repute. It consists of over 30 works in her exuberant style, most built, from places as far apart as Japan, Sweden, the UK and Canada.

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Gardens Of The World by Jean-Paul Pigeat,
Publisher: Flammarion
Publish date: March 4, 2004
Number of pages: 224 pages
ISBN: 2080112724
ISBN13: 9782080112729

his text sets out to examine the enduring styles and trends in garden design over the past 2000 years. Pigeat juxtaposes traditional and contemporary garden designs, exploring them by theme as expressions of a culture’s artistic creativity and social structures.

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The Rose (Mini Flora Editions) by Peter Harkness,
Publisher: Scriptum Editions
Publish date: March 2005
Number of pages: 336 pages
ISBN: 1902686470
ISBN13: 9781902686479

Roses are treasured for many reasons, as flowers of captivating beauty, for their sweet fragrance, their fascinating history, their value as a versatile garden plant and as symbols of trust, nationhood, and love. The quest to create roses, and the flowers that have resulted, are the subjects of this splendid book. It charts rose culture from its ancient origins through the horticulture of the nineteenth - century to hybrid breeding in modern times. THE ROSE explores the links that tie the simple wild roses of nature to the earliest roses of civilization, exploding a few myths along the way, and tells how the dedication of skilled horticulturalists from many nations have brought into being the full petalled beauties of today. In addition, this beautiful volume presents some of the most sublime rose specimens ever created, drawn and painted by renowned botanical artists such as Pierre Joseph Redoute, Henry Andrews and John Lindley.

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The Amazing Book Of Mazes by Adrian Fisher,
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Publish date: 2006
Number of pages: 264 pages
ISBN: 0500512477
ISBN13: 9780500512470

Pret : 35 Lei

Mazes are more popular today than they ever have been - it is said that over half of the mazes in the world have been constructed in the last twenty-five years. Adrian Fisher is without question the world’s leading maze designer, and here presents a comprehensive, fascinating and fun account of the history of the maze that has an equally strong interactive element. This stunning volume will delight mass audiences everywhere.
About author
Adrian Fisher is the world’s leading maze designer and winner of the 2003 Risorgimento Award, once held by Walt Disney, as ‘the world’s most creative person’. The ‘genial Britannique’ has designed over 400 mazes in twenty-three countries since 1979 and is the holder of several Guinness World Records.

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