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Sir Edwin Lutyens is widely regarded as one of Britain's greatest architects. In a career of over 50 years, spanning the Victorian, Edwardian and modern eras of architecture, Lutyens was prolific. His work ranged from great country houses, city...

The photography collected in A View from the Top may have arisen out of a desire to document a singular body of work-the Viewpoint Collection. Through Kelley's eye, lens, and postproduction choices, however, it advances the very way that buildings can be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781864708165Author Phillip James DoddFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Images Publishing GroupPublisher Images Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

'It was like heaven! It was like a palace, even without anything in it ... We'd got this lovely, lovely house.' In 1980, there were well over 5 million council homes in Britain, housing around one third of the population. The right of all to adequate...

Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within...

With a foreword by Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey who concludes that: `This is the world that Ruth Binney has brought so wonderfully to life in her book'. Inside the country house, what exactly were the ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040968Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

The interiors of this glorious retreat's many buildings are given the Nina Campbell treatment with vibrant palettes, sumptuous fabrics, fine antiques, and a contemporary clarity. Constructed at the turn of the last century, the core of the main house is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780671758Author David PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 1580g

A celebration of Britain's diverse housing styles throughout the twentieth century and beyond. This illuminating book is a fascinating insight into Britain's built heritage and the diverse housing styles of the twentieth century. Redesigned and updated...

Sheds are no longer neglected buildings at the end of the garden. As shown in this book, they have become an area of our home to be discovered by creative designers who see the garden as an extendable space of the home, whether in the heart of the city...

From the highly successful 150 Best series, the ultimate resource for single home buyers and owners, architects, developers, and designers, filled with contemporary, fresh ideas for sustainable construction and gorgeous interiors, vividly captured in...

In Artists' Homes, writer and photographer Tom Harford Thompson presents some thirty individual, eccentric houses and workspaces, from a music producer's studio in Hackney to an eco-warrior's treehouse on the Sussex Downs. His evocative photographs show...

Rural Scotland is a charged landscape, alive with history, soaked in myth and often rather sublime. For those of us living an urban existence, the countryside is a retreat for refuge and decompression, but it is also a place where infrastructures strain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040913Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

Expert information for professional builders and homeowners on every aspect of timber-framed house construction. This revised edition contains updated technical data and building details and also features advice on dealing with designers, sub-contractors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423647638Author Ben RahnFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

The 1950s was a decade of transformation, as Britain moved from austerity to greater affluence. After the Second World War, there was a huge building programme and the creation of new towns brought a new mid-twentieth century vision of the home. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911346142Author George BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Ovolo Publishing LtdPublisher Ovolo Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543514Author Dogma DogmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The architecture of Scotland exists in many forms. In Mousa to Mackintosh, Frank Arneil Walker examines the recognisable and recurring features evident in Scotland's buildings across the centuries to build a picture of 'Scottishness' in architecture. ...

Beyond the Gatehouse is a lighthearted, witty but factual biographical account of the eccentric lifestyles of the builders and residents of some of England's best-known country houses. Extraordinary buildings require extraordinary people, and over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967040449Author gestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag

A showcase of over forty of the most exciting and unique off-grid houses in North America, across a wide variety of wild and remote landscapes. Living off the grid has become increasingly desirable in recent years. Escaping the city to be immersed in...

Thick thatched roofs and rough mud plaster walls. An intricately carved wood transom and a precisely woven tatami mat-each element of traditional Japanese architecture tells a story.In Japanese Architecture, author Mira Locher explores how each of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936070520Author Lloyd KahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.Publisher Shelter Publications Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 1091g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423652533Author Laura FentonFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc

This book contains more than 250 floor and elevation plans and construction details for twenty-six prefabricated and cargo-container homes. It includes all the information and guidelines needed to recreate each project plus interior design ideas.Book...

This book is a practical guide for homeowners, with checklists and guidance on how to make their project successful. Most people considering a significant alteration to their home have no experience or knowledge of the process that has to be followed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840335392Author Rose Jane LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Stenlake PublishingPublisher Stenlake PublishingDimensions(mm) 170mm * 242mm * 4mm

Turn your garden into a haven for your feathered friends with this book of simple and attractive bird houses to make and make over. Setting up a bird house in your garden will provide birds with a place to rest and raise their young, and will also add a...

Around the world people are choosing to live small-whether it's downsizing from a large home or converting a van into a house on wheels. This gorgeous book looks at a variety of scenarios, taking readers across the globe and inside the doors of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037682807Author Sibylle Kramer KramerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Braun Publishing AGPublisher Braun Publishing AGWeight(grams) 1660g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262661331Author Andrea PalladioFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1225gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905959259Author "Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine"Format PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Ovolo Publishing LtdPublisher Ovolo Publishing...

The 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, 39-year-old Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, invites the reader into the house that his family has called home since the fifteenth century. In recent years, his award-winning restoration has brought the house back to life,...

Discover the latest in sustainable architecture and environmentally friendly home design in this outstanding volume in the popular 150 Best series, which features nearly 500 pages of full-color photographs and dozens of inventive and decorative profiles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423640462Author Brooke GiannettIFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 1111gDimensions(mm)...

Tadao Ando is one of the best-known and most influential contemporary architects with a minimalistic aesthetic and love of natural materials like glass and concrete proof that less is more. This volume features ten houses and examines his approach to...

This book is a sumptuously produced journey around twelve privately owned country houses, asking what it is like to live in such places today. What role do they play in the twenty-first century? For many years after the Second World War, the country...