The World's Greatest Lighthouses
Escape into these spectacular color photographs of more than 50 of the world's most beautiful lighthouses. They hail from North American shores such as the Outer Banks, Nova Scotia, Bermuda, and the California and Oregon coasts, as well as throughout the Mediterranean, the North Sea, the South Pacific, Asian waters, and the Caribbean.This book is dedicated to the lighthouses of history, legends, films, novels, and personal reveries. Spectacular Atlantic storms rage just outside the cozy interiors, which often contain the most unusual furniture. The text covers the individual characteristics, location, and history of these extraordinary coastal monuments, together with their technical development and the complex psychology of the modern-day hermits who live in them. This book is for all who love the seacoast and its architecture.
Modern Style: Jugendstil/Art Nouveau 1899-1905
Features over 2500 objects such as metal, ceramics, glass, furniture and jewelry from the Art Nouvea movement that were included in leading internation al specialist journals.
Modern Style: Jugendstil/Art Nouveau 1899-1905 
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California's Over by Louis B. Jones, ISBN 0679746005
"California's Over leads us down an unmarked road to the coast and then deep into the rotten, labyrinthine house where James Farmican, the famous poet, shot himself to death years ago, leaving behind a legacy of adulation and bankruptcy. Now his family is leaving, and the young narrator--who calls himself Baelthon--has been hired to haul the furniture onto the lawn and sort through the attic and basement. But as Baelthon excavates, he also discovers layers of family mystery and comedy and cruelty, all of it piled too deeply for anyone to sort out: the unexplained disappearance of Farmican's ashes, the unfinished novel that may actually be his suicide note, the opera about cannibalism that his son is writing to rescue himself from obscurity, and, finally, the family's migration to the Nevada desert to claim their inheritance.
And Baelthon discovers Wendy, Farmican's sixteen-year-old daughter who keeps her checkers pieces taped to the board where she and her father left them before he...
California's Over by Louis B. Jones, ISBN 0679746005
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Decorating with Collectibles & Heirlooms
That favorite heirloom quilt, Grandma's old china, a treasured photograph--how can you find a decorating style that smoothly incorporates all these and other beloved items? Just dive into these pages, filled with appealing color photos of eclectic design schemes, for inspiration. Each image reveals a room in which old and new are beautifully combined, and favored collectibles become the focal points of a chic interior. See novel ideas for displaying photos refurbishing furniture, and establishing a homespun, country look. Everywhere, color creates warmth and a feeling of comfort, texture and pattern invite you to touch the fabric, and accessories make unexpected statements. Along with advice, there are projects to make, such as a beautiful tulle frame.
Decorating with Collectibles & Heirlooms
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Fabrics: A Handbook for Interior Designers and Architects by Marypaul Yates, ISBN 039373062X
"Fabrics" Provides designers with the information they need to make their fabric specifications easy, informed, and appropriate to the job at hand, considering aesthetics, performance, and green design. It describes and illustrates the many fibers, construction techniques, processes, finishes, styles, and applications of cloth for furniture and window-, wall-, and floor coverings.
Fabrics: A Handbook for Interior Designers and Architects by Marypaul Yates, ISBN 039373062X
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World of Cross Stitch: 1001 Motifs, Borders and Pattern Ideas by Jo Verso, ISBN 0715309536
Design your own sampler, to capture the joy of day-to-day life and to hand down to loved ones as heirlooms. Even those with no drawing skills can stitch something special with these 1,001 marvelous mix and match motifs, beautiful borders and patterns, imaginative images from around the globe, and attractive alphabets. Throughout, there are ideas aplenty for tracing and combining the different components that go into the cross-stitch: people (from a baby in a stroller to grandpa asleep); buildings; furniture; animals (pets and wild animals, too); edgings, lettering, and bands, plus small spot pieces that charmingly fill in empty spaces. Find inspiration in sample birth announcements, christening records, schoolday and religious life embroideries; and more.
World of Cross Stitch: 1001 Motifs, Borders and Pattern Ideas by Jo Verso, ISBN 0715309536
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Bunny Rabbit-Cut and Use Stencils by Theodore Menten, ISBN 0486249093
Dozens of easy-to-use, reusable Bunny Rabbit stencils offer a host of design possibilities for graphic and craft projects. Adorable bunnies in a variety of sizes and poses: holding flowers, valentines, painting Easter Eggs, wearing hats, eyeglasses. Decorate walls, furniture, fabrics, etc. 76 black-and-white stencils printed one side only on durable stock.
Bunny Rabbit-Cut and Use Stencils by Theodore Menten, ISBN 0486249093
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