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Featuring stunning color photography, Stone Designs for the Home explores the work of one of the finest stonemasons practicing today, John T. Morris, who employs the traditional art form of hand-chiseled masonry. Journey through eight properties where Morris's exceptional work abounds while exploring his approach, thought processes, and philosophy behind the stunning art he creates in stone. Filled with a variety of native stones in exterior and interior projects, Stone Artistry for the Home Focuses on utilizing raw stone, masonry, and environmental elements.

Stone Houses: Traditional Homes of Pennsylvania’s Bucks County and Brandywine Valley is a unique presentation of beloved building traditions in one of the most charming and historically significant regions in the nation. Houses, barns, and outbuildings dating from the colonial and Federal periods, built with local stone predominantly in an English Cotswold vernacular style, represent a form that has become popular across the nation.

Geoffrey Gross’s stunning photographs document a remarkable collection of early buildings, including the John Chad House (circa 1720), Peter Wentz Farmstead (circa 1758), and Buckingham Friends Meeting House (1768), as well as more recent designs, in part inspired by such traditional homes, by architects R. Brognard Okie, G. Edwin Brumbaugh, and John D. Milner. Part of the original Pennsylvania Colony founded in March of 1681 by William Penn, the region encompassing Bucks County and the Brandywine Valley is important not only for its history as an early English settlement in the New World, but also for its role as a crucial site in the struggle for American independence.

The evidence for this is obvious in the story of its houses. Some notable examples include the Thompson-Neely House at Washington Crossing, in which, it is said, Washington’s officers were billeted during the famous night of his crossing of the Delaware, and Pennsbury Manor, the reconstructed home of William Penn. With its authoritative text and exquisite full-color photography, Stone Houses is a beautiful record of a historically rich regional building tradition.

There's nothing quite as functional - or as beautiful - as nature's own building blocks. Often shaped and weathered by natural forces, each stone has its own unique look and feel.

Used as elements in a carefully planned landscape design, stonework can add an artful organization to your outdoor spaces. Creating sturdy walls, private patios, graceful gardens, and offering unlimited opportunities for your imagination to soar - with features like ponds, streams and waterfalls that can transform your property into a sylvan sanctuary.

From cover to cover, this delightful book offers hundreds of practical design ideas illustrated with colorful photographs and drawings, all divided into six sections.

Chapter 1: Paths and Steps

Chapter 2: Terraces, Patios and Garden Spaces

Chapter 3: Walls

Chapter 4: Benches, Landscaping Features & Sculpture

Chapter 5: Pools, Ponds and Fountains

Chapter 6: Finishing Touches

Each volume in this new series focuses on one of the key factors that play a role in decoration - Color, Storage, Accessories, Lighting, Flooring & Materials or on different kinds of houses or spaces - rooms for fun, rooms for kids or urban apartments. The full colour photographs, accompanied by descriptive captions.

The items you want to store will dictate the type, size and scale of storage. Organising your lifestyle and clearing out clutter is a good place to start. Discreet storage is key, keeping the storage in perspective of what is already in the room scheme. Storage covers all areas of the house, all the main rooms, upstairs and downstairs and includes utility rooms, as well as 'work'.

Even considers ideas for storing accessories for the family pet; in other words, the book covers the full compliment of efficient storage options now available from which a busy household will benefit. Practical ideas will be interspersed throughout the book, and will include: measuring what it is you need to store, for example having tailor made boxes to slide under surfaces, bed, stairs, kitchen units; consider the access to storage: Is it occasional use of items or daily use?

The need for implementing childproof precautions, etc; good lighting within cupboards under stairs, lofts, shelving etc; using durable finishes on storage units, paint finishes, surfaces; plus, Full Directory of the latest storage design manufacturers.

For all the popularity of e-commerce, store windows are still the most effective way of selling new product to consumers. Window displays connect the reality of the street to the fantasy of the shop and also have a huge influence on the distribution of space within the store itself. This copiously illustrated book analyses current trends in window design and highlights examples marked by extraordinary creativity and visual inventiveness. Helpful captions accompany each photograph to explain the way lighting, props, and graphics contribute to successful displays.

This title includes ideas that will jump start your creativity and help you create your own exciting and persuasive displays. The displays shown in "Store Windows NO. 17" have been chosen based on their creativity, idea value and cost effectiveness. Perceptive comments provide the reader with an understanding of what makes the display effective and practical suggestion provide insights on how the ideas can be scaled down and adapted for little of no cost.

300 color and 25 b&w illustrations.

With over 225 full-color photos, Stores of the Year No. 15 shows you how top professionals in the fields of design, architecture, lighting and fixtures, turn spaces into marketplaces. Famous designers and newcomers alike reveal new solutions to the complex problems of retail design and visual merchandising. Featured projects are selected from a variety of venues from boutiques and specialty shops to department stores. This book contains only the very best design and visual merchandising efforts from across the U.S. and around the world.

The compact knowledge series addresses readers who look for a concise yet thorough overview of major subjects of cultural history. Organised chronologically, it provides key points of the major epochs and answers the most relevant questions. Coming with more than 150 mostly colour illustrations and detailed explanations and captions, education will become a great pleasure. Timelines, charts and excurses on related topics complete and visualize the content.

Presents a chronological depiction of the most important topics with over 150 illustrations with detailed explanations, timelines, illustrations and maps. There is also a subject index and an index of names.

Straw Bale Details is the perfect companion for those who are serious about building with straw. It focuses entirely on the specific design theories and practices that result in well-built, long-lasting bale structures, and extends the range of books like Straw Bale Building through large, easy-to-read architectural drawings rendered for a wide variety of building options, including load-bearing and post-and-beam designs.

A range of foundation, wall, door and window, and roof-plate scenarios are presented, along with explanatory notes and possible modifications. Also included is testing data from the most recent rounds of bale wall exploration, and interpretations of the data are given to help base designer and builder decisions on sound science.

Chapters include: Foundations & Floors; Curb Rails; Walls; Openings; Top Plates; Pre-Stressing; Roofs; Wall Mounting, Electrical & Plumbing Systems; as well as sections on Key Scientific Test Results; Building Code Provisions; Bale Basics; Plasters & Finishes; and a Bibliography

Пролистать книгу Straw Bale Details: A Manual for Designers and Builders на Google books.

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