Peter Davies
From fleece, yarn, and dyeing to looms and weaves, the visual language,
tribal weavers, and meaning, origins, and aesthetics of the kilim, this
book provides an ideal and up-to-date summary of the subject.More
Dominique Lenclos, Jean-Philippe Lenclos, Gregory Bruhn
Colors of the World presents a chromatic journey through the colors of vernacular architecture from the United States to the far corners of the globe.More
Dominique Lenclos, Jean-Philippe Lenclos
The "eyes" of a building, windows separate viewer from view, inside from outside, public from private. Windows of the World tours the infinite richness of this basic architectural element, from the simple, square porthole of a stone farmhouse in Brittany to the fine ironwork details of the mashrabiya that screen windows in Morocco to the windows of New York’s Greenwich Village, crisscrossed by a complex, ornate maze of fire escapes.More
Alison Main, Newell Platten, Julie Moir Messervy
Stunningly illustrated, this is both a guidebook to accessible gardens
in Japan and a revelation of their historical and cultural contexts for
the general reader.More
Norbert Schoenauer
Revised and Expanded Edition
The fascinating evolution of house forms from the Stone Age to the present.More