Steven Whitsitt (55 results)

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Hardback. Condition: New. Visit a dozen exciting homes where the owners have ignored standard building practices in favor of creative alternatives. These homes, found from Massachusetts to California, are expressive of individuality as well as artistry, and you'll be inspired to branch out and craft your own unique living space. Homes featured include Eliphante near Sedona, Arizona, a four-acre art installation complete with free-form rammed-earth buildings and handmade stained glass. You'll also tour the sculpted grounds and meditation huts of a recycling artist and guru, and the mystical home and gardens of Gnome Countryside, in southern Pennsylvania. See the latest take on the arts and crafts style in California, along with simplistic and beautiful straw bale homes in Virginia and Massachusetts. This book pays tribute to a long line of thrifty and artistically gifted homeowners who have created beauty from simple materials to live in homes that are art.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pictorial boards have a small dent on bottom edge. Binding is tight and square. Pages are clean and unmarked. Ex-library with usual markings.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Visit treasured house museums in the lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia, exploring the essence of ante-bellum elegance. 222 lovely color photographs guide you through the corridors of nine classically built, exquisite manor homes and the shaded pathways that wend through heirloom gardens. Experience an era long past, when wealthy planters and slaves wrested fortunes from virgin swampland to produce rice and indigo for a hungry European market. Re-discover American history as you enjoy stories of the dynastic families who built these homes, shaped the growth of the region, and were instrumental in founding the nation. This book is a wonderful souvenir for those who've explored the Lowcountry, and a wish list for those who aspire to do so.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. This design book showcases the work of eight master stoneworkers from around the United States in a wide variety of interior and exterior projects. Large, full-color photography captures stone constructions including retaining walls, steps, fireplaces, patios, water features, and free-standing structures. Each artist's work is featured in a dedicated chapter and shows a selection of techniques, including dry stacking, mortaring, paving, and carving. Though these craftsmen adhere to different aesthetics, the fundamentals of their craft and their patience for building something with permanence is common throughout. From small garden walls to two-story fireplaces, here is the grand, simple, and sustainable work of contemporary stone artisans for designers, students, and homeowners.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardcover boards very good with edge wear and shelf wear. Lower right corner of front panel bumped and scuffed with loss. Covers else fine. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good with edge wear. Small crease to top right corner of front panel. Light staining. Protected in Mylar. Pages bright and crisp. Interior unmarked. Oversize/overweight additional postage may apply.…

Condition: New. Num Pages: 111 pages, 200+ color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMC; AMK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1082. . 2009. Hardcover. . . . .

Hardback. Condition: New. Visit a dozen exciting homes where the owners have ignored standard building practices in favor of creative alternatives. These homes, found from Massachusetts to California, are expressive of individuality as well as artistry, and you'll be inspired to branch out and craft your own unique living space. Homes featured include Eliphante near Sedona, Arizona, a four-acre art installation complete with free-form rammed-earth buildings and handmade stained glass. You'll also tour the sculpted grounds and meditation huts of a recycling artist and guru, and the mystical home and gardens of Gnome Countryside, in southern Pennsylvania. See the latest take on the arts and crafts style in California, along with simplistic and beautiful straw bale homes in Virginia and Massachusetts. This book pays tribute to a long line of thrifty and artistically gifted homeowners who have created beauty from simple materials to live in homes that are art.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. The signature architectural elements of sixteen Arts and Crafts bungalows.  Tour sixteen beautifully restored homes built and decorated in the Arts and Crafts style, an early twentieth century movement to counter the increasing urbanization and mechanization of human life. Nearly 300 color photos detail links between nature and human skill, and capture architectural elements of the Arts and Crafts bungalow. This book is a must have for Arts and Crafts followers and ideal for all woodworkers, glass workers, masons, and collectors, offering insight and design inspiration through images of built-in cabinets, stained glass windows, brick fireplaces, and antiques displays. …

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Hardback. Condition: New. A rich collection of imagery explores the actual homes of three of the most esteemed wood artist/craftsmen of the modern era: Wharton Esherick, Sam Maloof, and George Nakashima. Tour the private homes of these masters and compare their innovations and vision through the medium of their own homes, gardens, and work areas. Step into their environments, where aesthetics are most accurately realized. You'll delight in Esherick's humble mountaintop home where straight lines were purposefully forbidden, and Maloof's sprawling California home that expresses his inexhaustible creativity and industriousness. Nakashima's home is a harmonious marriage of Japanese influences with Pennsylvania's rich natural resources. This book is a must-have for devotees of these artists, as well as aspiring woodworkers who want tutelage from the top.…

Condition: New. Num Pages: 111 pages, 200+ color photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMC; AMK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 236 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1082. . 2009. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Condition: New. Num Pages: 144 pages, 268 color photos. BIC Classification: AFK; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1192. . 2011. Hardcover. . . . .

Condition: New. Num Pages: 176 pages, 295 color photos. BIC Classification: AMKD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 308 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1304. . 2011. Hardcover. . . . .

Hardback. Condition: New. This design book showcases the work of eight master stoneworkers from around the United States in a wide variety of interior and exterior projects. Large, full-color photography captures stone constructions including retaining walls, steps, fireplaces, patios, water features, and free-standing structures. Each artist's work is featured in a dedicated chapter and shows a selection of techniques, including dry stacking, mortaring, paving, and carving. Though these craftsmen adhere to different aesthetics, the fundamentals of their craft and their patience for building something with permanence is common throughout. From small garden walls to two-story fireplaces, here is the grand, simple, and sustainable work of contemporary stone artisans for designers, students, and homeowners.…

Condition: New. Num Pages: 159 pages, 200-plus color photos. BIC Classification: AMK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 309 x 242 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1444. . 2009. Hardcover. . . . .

Condition: New. Num Pages: 144 pages, 268 color photos. BIC Classification: AFK; AMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 312 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1192. . 2011. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback. Condition: New. The signature architectural elements of sixteen Arts and Crafts bungalows.  Tour sixteen beautifully restored homes built and decorated in the Arts and Crafts style, an early twentieth century movement to counter the increasing urbanization and mechanization of human life. Nearly 300 color photos detail links between nature and human skill, and capture architectural elements of the Arts and Crafts bungalow. This book is a must have for Arts and Crafts followers and ideal for all woodworkers, glass workers, masons, and collectors, offering insight and design inspiration through images of built-in cabinets, stained glass windows, brick fireplaces, and antiques displays. …