Todays top homes include spa-scale, master bath suites that serve up far more than the traditional 10-minute morning routine. Luxury bath suites include whirlpool tubs, multi-faceted showers, soaking tubs, and, above all, space. Tremendous attention is being lavished on the design of baths where youll want to linger .…
From living rooms with stripper poles to showers with commanding views of the city, Los Angeles’s wealthy bachelor rock stars, actors, producers, and financiers have established a slightly different and eclectically exciting bar for the designers who serve 26 of them. For instance, the bedroom can be a very, um,…
An inspiring and enticing do-it-yourself guide. With its almost 50 projects and many lovely interior photos, this home-improvement manual is an idea bank for the hobbyist as well as the interior designer. The projects included range from small, practical bookends to a large, spacious shed, and include bookcases,…
History is brought to life in many historic houses, especially at Christmas time, when special decorations help to welcome the social season and visiting guests. In this revised second edition, learn history and local customs through engaging text and over 420 color photos. Costumed guides interpret Christmas…
Here is Christmas decorating, history, architecture, and interior design wrapped in one sparkling package. Three-hundred and sixty-three gorgeous, inspiring images provide leisurely looks at historic house interiors magically decorated for Christmas. Begin with the Foreword by Christopher Radko, famed re-creator of…
There is something about antique homes and their hard-working barns that captures the imagination. Maybe it’s their pleasing proportions, maybe they remind us of a simpler time, or maybe we sense that these venerable old survivors that were built when our country was young have seen it all. But how many of us…
Have you every wondered where the nineteenth century country furniture found in today’s American antique marketplace came from? It will surprise the reader to learn that much of it came from Quebec, Canada.
Warren Johansson has written a guide to the sources and kinds of Quebec country antiques currently i the…
Many people are looking for alternative heat sources from oil, wood, and electricity. This book will tell them all they need to know about coal heat.
Coal is cheaper in many parts of the country than other fuels. It is safer than wood because it does not have creosote buildup, and coal is easier to handle with…
This new book covers the great variety of secret and largely unknown German missile programs: GUIDED MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X1 ”Fritz-X”, Henschel Hs 293, Hs 294, Hs 295 and Henschel ”Zitterrochen”, Blohm und Voss Bv 226, Bv 246 ”Hagelkorn” and Lippisch GB-3/L, Blohm und Voss Bv…
Many of the great modern classic furniture designs of the twentieth century are still in production and available to the public in America and abroad. There are also many recent designs destined to become classics, because they share many of the same qualities of modern furniture already in museum collections and…
The Herman Miller Furniture Company was devoted to manufacturing period reproduction furniture until pioneer industrial designer Gilbert Rohde walked into their Grand Rapids showroom in 1930. A devout modernist, Rohde convinced D.J. De Pree to focus on modern furniture throughout the 1930s, and to produce exclusively…
Treasure one of the greatest forms of pop art in America–the metal lunch box. This is undoubtedly the most comprehensive and colorful compilation of metal lunch boxes ever published. Memories of childhood buddies carried to school each day are beautifully photographed from every angle to display the front, the…
This collection of beautiful photographs showcases the artistry of those who sculpt outdoor living environments with solid rock, impressed and tinted concrete, and brick in many forms. You will be both inspired and informed. This practical guidebook will help you choose a patio style suitable for your home, learn to…
Study more than 200 inspiring designer rooms that will help you and your family create the perfect place for your children, be they brand new babies or budding teens. Explore hundreds of great furnishing and decorating ideas through more than 250 color photos of bedrooms and playrooms. Call a family meeting and compare…
If you’re thinking about building a new home, you’ll want to start here. This introduction to insulating concrete form (ICF) construction will open your eyes to the future. ICF construction combines man’s best building materials – concrete and steel, with high-tech insulation – bringing…
Here’s a fun and inexpensive way to transform your decor — furniture slipcovers that can be applied and removed to fit the occasion or the season. A talented seamstress shares her tips and techniques for creating slipcovers for a sofa, the headboard of a bed, and a variety of chair forms including…
In 1913, a Chicago architect compiled this wonderful portfolio of American homes and buildings that he said embodied ”the back to nature” movement of the times. Today, this faithful reprint is a treasure of Craftsman bungalow and Prairie house styles, including work by the venerable Frank Lloyd Wright and…
Over 180 stunning color images will take you through a tour of GAVA (Global AquaTekture Visionary Awards) worthy pool, spa, and water environment concepts from open ranchland to inner city estates, from beach front properties in Australia to a villa in Portugal. The visionaries who created the 66 award-winning projects…
In 265 photos, this book provides all the knowledge you need to make the most of your space outdoors, creating landscape for recreation, gardens, and play that is also a safe, child friendly environment. Whether you choose to design the ideal setting for the neighborhood ping-pong tournament, create an imaginative…
The 1950s saw the popularity of television explode in America, and the 1900s are seeing the growth of the exciting television collectibles field. This brand new book contains information and pictures of memorabilia from over 260 television programs dating from the 1950s to the 1990s, from ”The Honeymooners”…
Fabrics can represent an era or a decade-the colors, patterns, textures, and fibers reveal as much about the culture as do the furnishings and clothing that relied on the fabrics. The decade of the 1960s was one of extremes. Traditional plaids were reintroduced and became popular at the same time as bold prints and…
Art tile is a truly exciting option for both interior and exterior decoration. There is a vast array of tile available on the market today, ranging in design from traditional to modern, and conservative to outrageous–the possibilities are overwhelming! This book is a wonderful introduction to art tile, loaded…
A blowtorch is one of those things that is instantly recognized for what it is, even by those who haven’t seen one before. Produced from the late 1800s into the 1950s, they show up in antique malls and flea markets, and have become highly collectible. Their enduring brass and bronze construction mean that even the…
Herman Miller, the leader in modern twentieth-century furniture manufacture, was a totally design-oriented company. Known best for Eames and Nelson furniture designs, showrooms, and interiors, they also produced outstanding graphic design. Mid-century and later advertisements, drawings, brochures, catalogs, posters,…
This incredible collection of stunning images will inspire anyone who dreams of creating their very own timber-frame home. Thirty-eight custom-built homes are featured, inside and out, complete with floor plans. Packed with 275 gorgeous color pictures, this book provides furnishing and decorating ideas, including…
More than 570 Pairpoint lamps with their distinctive glass shades are shown in this and the companion volume that comprise the catalog. They represent a broad sample of the production of Pairpoint lamps from 1900 to the early 1930s. The most remarkable feature of the catalog is that so many of the pages are…
More than 570 Pairpoint lamps with their distinctive glass shades are shown in this and the companion volume that comprise the catalog. They represent a broad sample of the production of Pairpoint lamps from 1900 to the early 1930s. The most remarkable feature of the catalog is that so many of the pages are…
There are few collectibles that so vividly mark a design period as do the colorful ceramic fish, bubbles, mermaids, and seahorses of the 1950s and 1960s. The popularity of these bathroom decorations swept the land and became a fad that would be remembered for years to come. They were the creations of gifted artists,…
In this long-awaited new volume, classics by Herman Miller’s super-designers — Gilbert Rohde, Charles and Ray Eames, and George Nelson — are shown along with more recent office furniture designs. Furniture designs are described in detail and shown in color and black-and-white photographs, all from the Herman Miller…
This fabulous, step-by-step book is designed to walk you through the basic decisions that go into creating a custom-built home. Targeted toward timber frame design, the book is universal in its presentation of appealing barn style and country style homes. Any couple or family planning a custom designed home should…
Popular artist Wallace Nutting traveled throughout New England and the United States giving lectures as minister, photographer, author, furniture maker, collector and antiquarian. Born in Rockbottom, Massachusetts, in 1861 and buried in Augusta Maine in 1941, Nutting left an amazing legacy of hand-tinted photography…
Over 700 images create a portal into the architectural style of Oaxaca, Mexico’s most colonial city. Oaxaca’s Spanish Colonial architecture dates back to the early sixteenth century, and these images explore an aesthetic that has hardly altered in all that time. Great wooden doors, studded with hand wrought…
The dreamiest kitchens are presented in this collection of over 325 exquisite photographs. Hundreds of custom features are shown from award-winning kitchens by the nation’s best manufacturers. This visual library of ideas includes examples of storage solutions, unusual surfaces and colors, and creative ways to…
Featuring over 370 stunning photos and detailed, scholarly text, this is the first book about this popular 19th century European art form! They are magical porcelain three-dimensional pictures, which can be seen only when backlit, and were a popular craze in the late Victorian era. The lithophanes here enhanced tea…
Every modern house includes flat concrete surfaces. Concrete features range from utilitarian sidewalks to garage floors to tennis courts made of pervious concrete so water won’t pond on it. You don’t need years of experience to build a good concrete floor, but you do need information. Until now, that…
Outdoor Carpentry is the first “tool” you need to fulfill all your dreams for a large terrace, a flowerbox, an outdoor kitchen, a fence, a shed, a small bench, an entire carport, or a whole array of other projects for the yard. The projects are presented with over 300 inspiring and illustrative color photographs as…
This is the beautiful guide to French provincial furniture that no serious buyer or enthusiast can afford to be without. It presents the key types of country antique furniture in fourteen separate regions of France, explains the differences in their construction and decoration which will enable you to identify them,…
In this one essential volume, Barbara Mauzy covers many categories of non-electrical kitchen collectibles from the 1920s through the 1950s. Over 1,100 photographs depict the ingenuity and creativity of the makers of kitchenware during this period. Values, guides to the more popular designs and colors, manufacturing…
The startling range of muffin pans produced by the Griswold Manufacturing Company from the late nineteenth century through the 1950s is covered in detail in this fascinating guide. The author provides more than 235 photographs of muffin pan designs and computer graphics depicting 226 pan variations. All the pertinent…
In the early days of television, people attempted to protect themselves from the new machines with bright talismans–creative lamps that provided back light that was believed to protect the eyes. These lamps took on fantastic forms, the most popular among them being panthers and other animals like Siamese cats.…