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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $21.48
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Manufacturer: Timber Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Scott Ogden::Lauren Springer Ogden
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Publisher: Timber Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 712
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Publication Date: 2008-10-14
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Reading Level: 284
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Description: 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, and gives gardeners more confidence to design. The Ogdens boldly challenge design orthodoxy and current trends by examining how to marry plantsmanship and design without sacrificing one to the other. Supported by extensive lists of plants adapted to specific purposes and sites, Plant-Driven Design explores how plants interact with place. In addition, the authors' experience gardening and designing in a wide variety of climates gives their perspective a unique depth. In ideas, scope, and detail, this book both embraces and transcends regionality. By reclaiming gardens as a home to plants, this groundbreaking work will restore life-affirming vitality to garden design and profoundly affect how we understand and experience gardens.
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Price: $65.00
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Sale: $40.09
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Manufacturer: Rizzoli
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Christian Duvernois
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Publisher: Rizzoli
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Dewey Decimal Number: 712
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Publication Date: 2008-10-07
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Marie-Antoinette has been idolized as the height of eighteenth-century French style and vilified as the spark that ignited the French Revolution. This book departs from such traditional interpretations of the infamous queen’s reign and chooses to reflect on the humanistic aspects of her private realm. To escape the formalities and royal obligations of Louis XVI’s court, Marie-Antoinette created a private realm of pleasure for herself at the Petit Trianon and Hameau, where she planted the first Anglo-Chinese garden; created a trysting grotto; a working farm; and revolutionized architecture and gardening trends for the century to come. Marie-Antoinette’s entire private domain and its story are told in beautiful photographic detail by François Halard for the first time since its recent restoration and accompanied by well-researched texts by garden expert Christian Duvernois.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $27.74
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Francis D. K. Ching
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Publisher: Wiley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720.3
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Publication Date: 1996-11-28
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: This book defines over 5,000 terms relating to architectural design, history, and technology. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings, each executed in Mr. Ching's signature style.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $15.04
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Manufacturer: Jones Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kim Wilson
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Publisher: Jones Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 712.094209034
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Publication Date: 2008-10
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Jane Austen's natural world--real and fictional--comes to life in this colorful, illustrated stroll through the gardens, parks and great estates of Regency England. With lush photos, social history, excerpts from Austen's novels, biographical information, drawings and diagrams, this book brings the great outdoors to readers eager to understand more details of Austen's environment. Also featured are instructions on how to create your own English garden and on where to see sites mentioned in the book. Gardens from movie adaptations of her novels are included.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $12.88
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Manufacturer: Artisan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Dan Snow
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Publisher: Artisan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 779.36
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Publication Date: 2008-11-01
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Reading Level: 145
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Description: A master craftsman provides us with the timeless wisdom he has gained from heaving and hewing stone.
In his highly anticipated second book, Vermonter Dan Snow once again proves that he is not just one of America's premier artisans, but also one of our most articulate voices on the natural world and our relationship to it. Snow's medium is stone: He is the nation's premier drystone wall builder. Schooled in this ancient craft, he painstakingly creates structures as breathtaking as sculpture with nothing but gravity as their glue. In Listening to Stone, Peter Mauss's tactile photographs of Snow's artistry are matched by the artisan's quietly compelling prose.
In a voice as expressive as Annie Dillard's and as informed as John McPhee's, Snow demonstrates astonishing range as he touches on such subjects as geology, philosophy, and community. We learn that stone's grace comes from its unique characteristics—its capacity to give, its surprising fluidity, its ability to demand respect, and its role as a steadying force in nature. In these fast-paced times, Snow’s life's work offers an antidote: the luxury of patience, the bounty and quietude of nature, the satisfaction of sweat. "I work with stone," he ultimately tells us, "because stone is so much work."
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $22.81
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Tovah Martin
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9092
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Publication Date: 1994-10-05
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Tasha Tudor's poignant art has fascinated adults and children for decades. Her nineteenth-century New England lifestyle is legendary. Gardeners are especially intrigued by the profusion of antique flowers -- spectacular poppies, six-foot foxgloves, and intoxicating peonies -- in the cottage gardens surrounding her hand-hewn house. Until now we've only caught glimpses of Tasha Tudor's landscape. In this gorgeous book, two of her friends, the garden writer Tovah Martin and the photographer Richard Brown, take us into the magical garden and then behind the scenes. As we revel in the bedlam of Johnny-jump-ups and cinnamon pinks, the intricacy of the formal peony garden, and the volumptuousness of her heirloom roses, we also learn Tasha's gardening secrets. How does she coax forth her finicky camellia blossoms in the dead of a Vermont winter? How does she train that fantastic topiary to model for her artwork? How can she keep her crown imperials from tumbling in the winds? Tasha's garden reflects a wealth of family lore, perfected through the years and years of working the soil. We may be dazzled by the beauty of the garden, but we come away from this book with practical ideas about improving our own plots of land. "Paradise on earth" is how Tasha describes her garden, and along with the flowers and the vegetables that provide her food, her paradise is filled with an enchanting menagerie -- corgies, Nubian goats, cats, chickens, fantail doves, and forty or more exotic finches, cockatiels, canaries, nightingales, and parrots, which inhabit her collection of antique cages. Tasha's beautiful watercolors and her enchanting anecdotes color this sublimely beautiful book.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $31.50
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Manufacturer: Abrams
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Nancy D'Oench::Bonny Martin
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Publisher: Abrams
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 712.0973
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Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: More than 90 exquisite gardens were photographed all around the United States especially for this book by Mick Hales, one of the world’s leading garden photographers. Organized according to parts of the garden—entryways, herbaceous borders, water features, hedges, etc.—the pictures are accompanied by insightful commentaries and extended captions. Quotations from the owners—dedicated gardeners all—offer an additional source of inspiration to any garden lover.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $5.90
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Stiles
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Publisher: The Lyons Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 635
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Publication Date: 2003-11-01
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: 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 sheets of plywood, followed by lean-tos, a tree hut, and a Tarzan-style jungle hideaway. There are also forts of every description, including a 21-foot-tall lookout tower modeled on one George Washington built to keep an eye on the redcoats.
Stiles also adds a design for a snowball catapult, an igloo and even a Nerf-loaded cannon.
Written for children, with an adult peeking over their shoulder, Stiles's TREEHOUSES, HUTS, & FORTS is a dreamer's handbook, offering practical results.
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Price: $89.95
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Sale: $56.67
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Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Liat Margolis::Alexander Robinson
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Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 712
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Publication Date: 2007-05-29
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Reading Level: 191
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $19.15
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Manufacturer: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Turtleback
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Author: Rosemary Alexander
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Publisher: Timber Press, Incorporated
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Dewey Decimal Number: 712.6
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Publication Date: 2004-10-01
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Reading Level: 292
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Description: A well-designed garden provides pleasure to owner and visitor alike but often eludes even the most experienced gardener. Encompassing many different disciplines, garden design is one of the most challenging art forms but, with time and practice, everyone can develop the necessary skills. The Essential Garden Design Workbook guides you through every stage of designing a garden from site assessment through to drawing up plans and selecting suitable hard landscaping and plants. By working through the book from start to finish, a designer garden is within everyone’s reach. This practical workbook goes right back to basics and pinpoints the key practical essentials for a successful design. Here you will learn how to assess your site and experiment with design ideas that fit well with the garden’s surroundings. You will find easy ways to measure large spaces, estimate the height of a tree, and advice on the right proportions for a deck, pathway or steps. The book includes clear instructions for drawing up plans from initial site survey through to final design, complete with tips on drawing and rendering detail to give a professional touch. This book is tailormade for hands-on gardeners who want to rework their gardens to achieve that sought-after ‘designer finish’. Hundreds of explanatory drawings and quick-reference diagrams provide ‘facts at your fingertips’ making this workbook a vital addition to the bookshelves of every gardener, design student and newly qualified professional.
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