Rooms: Design and decoration

Stefanidis, John

Arts & Photography

Phoenix Illustrated

London remains one of the world's greatest cities; a thriving centre of international politics and commerce, with a unique heritage and fascinating history. Using a panoramic camera, Sampson Lloyd captures both the essence and variety of this most vibrant of cities. Only the sweep of the broadest view can do justice to the capital, whether seen from one of the spectacular bridges spanning the River Thames, or from the vantage point of its tallest buildings, or from the hills and parks that surround it. Together with the famous sights and landmarks the book reveals some of London's best-kept secrets - the wealth of beautiful, curious and historic buildings hidden in its fabric. Rowan Moore gives an insight into the places, their history and their associations in a lively and informative commentary. London emerges as a living city, a city still making its history and one that continues to surprise and inspire.

Panoramas of London

Travel

Moore, Rowan

Europe

Historic Britain from the Air presents a striking bird's-eye journey over the most cherished landmarks of Britain.Nowhere is the ebb and flow of history better captured than from the air. From the oft invaded coasts of south England to the remote highlands of Scotland, Nicholas Best and photogrpaher Jason Hawkes offer an intriguing new aspect on Britain's heritage.Pages: 160

Historic Britain from the Air (From the Air)

Best, Nicholas

Photography & Video

The Floral Decorator

From basic skills to grand design, this book contain step-by-step instructions for 40 different projects, Kenneth Turner discusses the importance of colour, texture and shape, and shows how to plan a design to compliment its surroundings.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Turner, Kenneth

Crafts & Hobbies

This text presents some of the finest examples of doll's houses from Europe and America, showing a variety of traditions and national styles. The photographs illustrate a fascinating sequence of rooms, from attics to basements, and focus on the immaculate detailing of furnishings.

Classic Dolls Houses

EATON, Faith

The Pre-Raphaelites

WOOD, Christopher

The English cottage garden is an exquisite celebration of quintesentially English gardens, showing how they tread a fine line between aesthetics and utility, wildness and domestication. In medieval times cottages, far from picturesque, were vital to their cultivator's self sufficiency and were often surrounded by a yard mainly given over to livestock, but with a patch for vegetables and herbs. In the 17th century things began to change, the gentry started to build cottage-style houses and aided by their servants assumedd lives of mock-simplicity. Thus the English cottage garden has derived from 2 strands : the subsistence culture of the original cottagers nad the romantic notions of the gentrifiers.

The English Cottage Garden

Lawson, Andrew

Taylor, Jane.

Gardening & Landscape Design

The author, who spent ten years as the assistant of the Duchess of Windsor's lawyer and who has previously edited the Windsor's private correspondence in two volumes, here provides a detailed biographical reassessment of the Duchess of Windsor and her mysterious life.

Duchess of Windsor

History

BLOCH, Michael

Quirky, eccentric, ultramodern, or bohemian, the homes visited in this gorgeously illustrated volume reveal the essence of London lifestyle among England's current cultural trendsetters. The tours explore the homes of 30 people in film, fashion, design, and architecture and capture the creative and inspirational details of each residence. 235, 215 in color.

London Living

Lisa Lovatt-Smith

This text brings the insights of modern science to bear on the study of horses. The book begins with the history of the horse and how horseback riding stimulated both commerce and war, before moving on to recent research.

Nature of Horses Their Evolution

Science & Math

Budiansky, Stephen

Agricultural Sciences

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