Lautner, 1911-1994: Disappearing Space (Basic Art)

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Space age architecture American architect John Lautner (1911-1994) is responsible for some of the most original buildings of the space age and, indeed, the 20th century. The residences he designed in the Los Angeles area, including the Chemosphere House and the Silvertop, are synonymous with the hopes and dreams of an entire era. Characterized by sweeping rooflines, glass-paneled walls, and steel beams, his buildings displayed a combination of fantasy and minimalism, often integrating water and incorporating surrounding landscapes. Lautner always placed great importance on the relationship between humans, space, and nature.

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A lot for the money.......2007-05-12

Most books on Lautner (my father) are out of print and expensive. This one is a great small book that makes a terrific gift or handy guide. Some new pictures, some different buildings from Campbell-Lange's other Lautner book.

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Inspiring.......1999-12-29

Most inspirational! This book provides excellent designs, colour and concepts to enable the novice to the professional on exciting paint ideas for all furniture. If you're wanting to create an awesome finish on any piece and need inspiration, this is the book to buy. It's easy to follow and opens your mind and creativity, you'll be amazed at the selections, you'll create the most impressive pieces which I am sure your friends will notice. You will never find painted furniture boring after seeing Cressida Bells talent!

Fabulous Painted Furniture: 10 Projects That Give Your Flea Market Finds New Life

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Fabulous Painted Furniture: 10 Projects That Give Your Flea Market Finds New Life
Jan Belliveau
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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ASIN: 1581804628

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Using this book and some basic paint supplies, you can transform your tired old wooden furniture into functional works of art. This book is great for turning "flea market finds" into "shabby chic" style furniture. Beginners and even experienced craftspersons will enjoy these organized projects and easy to follow step-by-step instructions.

Tole-Painted Outdoor Projects: Decorative Designs for Gardens, Patios, Decks & More

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Love This One
A must for every tole-painter's library.

Tole-Painted Outdoor Projects: Decorative Designs for Gardens, Patios, Decks & More
Areta Bingham
Manufacturer: Sterling/Chapelle
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Painted Garden Decor (Banar Design)

ASIN: 0806944862

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With all this creativity and practical help, you'll soon have your outdoor space filled with painted tables, vases, stepping stones, and other stunning items. And, special projects like a pretty violet and ivy table will beautify any patio, as will a lovely layered-flowers chair. Color worksheets and detailed patterns help decorate an urn fountain with big blossoms, adorn a planter with hibiscus, and take a shine to a bright hydrangeas silver birdhouse. 19 terrific ideas in all! A Main Selection of BOMC's Crafters Book Club & F&W's Book Clubs.

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Love This One.......2006-08-30

Great, simple ideas for beautiful outdoor decorating. A must have for all tole and one stroke painters.

A must for every tole-painter's library........2000-08-15

A lovely book with excellent, clear diagrams. The step-by-step instructions are superb which makes the designs achievable by any level of painting ability. The designs are classic and can be easily integrated into any decorating style. No "cutesy" stuff here! The paint conversion tables at the end of the book were a complete surprise - that's what sold the book to me. Bravo!

Painted Wood Projects in the Pennsylvania Folk Art Style

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Painted Wood Projects in the Pennsylvania Folk Art Style
Alan Bridgewater , and Gill Bridgewater
Manufacturer: Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Pennsylvania Dutch Designs (International Design Library)

ASIN: 0806905093

Country-Style Painted Wood Projects (Donna Kooler Designs)

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Fun and colorful ideas for wood painting

Country-Style Painted Wood Projects (Donna Kooler Designs)
Primrose Path , and Donna Kooler Design Studio
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Wish you could fill your home with charm? Try making these fabulous projects: a rooster crooning a barnyard welcome, a loving piglet covered in pink hearts, a black cat bedecked in jack-o'-lanterns, a beautiful blueberry step stool, and dozens more of the most delighful country-style designs ever! Every pattern is here, including helpful color drawings illustrating each decorative layer, from base to shadow and highlights, to final details. 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.

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Fun and colorful ideas for wood painting.......1998-07-02

Table of Contents - General Instructions: - General Supplies - Projects like: Wart the Frog Flopsie Rabbit Sittin' Kitten Barnyard Welcome Henny Penny all with a photo, instructions and patterns

Decorative Painted Projects for the Home

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Decorative Painted Projects for the Home
Plaid
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ASIN: 1402705948

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With some paint, vibrant patterns, and simple instructions at your disposal, it takes only a mere few hours to create these special pieces for yourself or as a gift. Make a functional and artistic Tulip Candle Vase, Funky Flowers Tray, Sunflowers and Strawberries Table and Chairs, and more—30 in all. “Helps even beginners create beautiful accessories for their homes.”—Tole World.

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Decorative Painted Wood Projects
The Designers from Provo Craft
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Looking for a way to bring brilliant hues and a whimsical imagination to your wood projects? Stop right here! You'll find more imaginative design ideas to spruce up your woodwork than in any other collection. All 32 projects appear in full-color photos, with patterns that you can either use at exact size or photocopy to any size you want. The complete instructions include detailed painting schemes--follow them exactly or just use them as a source of inspiration. They're all pure fun, like the Plaid Chicken Boxes; Old Mac's Farm, with its barn and animals set against a chicken wire background; Sitting Rabbit and Sitting Rooster garden stakes; Honey Bear and Cat & Bird windmills; and Pine Shingle and Rosebud birdhouses. You'll love making every one! 128 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10. NEW IN PAPERBACK.

Painted Country Woodcrafts, Over 50 Decorative Projects for the Home

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Painted Country Woodcrafts, Over 50 Decorative Projects for the Home
Marina Alexee Grant
Manufacturer: Meredith Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OTSJ1O

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Painted Country Woodcrafts: Over 50 Decorative Projects for the Home
Marina Alexee Grant
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Painted Garden Furniture Projects
Areta Bingham
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ASIN: 1402708874

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The furniture in your garden can provide as much color, beauty, and imagination as the flowers they complement. Just tole paint your tables, chairs, planters, birdbaths, birdhouses, benches, and storage cabinets with 19 different designs accompanied by their own patterns and instructions for applying them to a variety of projects. “Guaranteed to soothe a case of summer garden fever.”—The Decorative Painter.

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The Hot House is in part a manifesto and in part a noncanonical history of the most progressive and heretical experiments in the applied arts and design. Covering two centuries of avantgarde designs, but concentrating on the 1950s to the present, the book looks at architecture and urban design as well as graphic, interior, exhibit, industrial, and fashion design. It discusses the role that such magazines as Casabella, Domus, and Modo have played on this lively front, and provides an insider's view of such figures and groups as Alessandro Mendini, Gaetano Pesce, Alychmia, Global Tools, Michele De Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass, and-the design world's hot new movement-Memphis. It also elucidates such concepts as banal design, soft design, radical architecture, and color cultures, and relates these and other design developments to social and political issues.

Protagonist of many of these experiments, Andrea Branzi calls for a theory and practice in which the old methods and instruments - pencil, square, and compass - are rendered obsolete, and the formal commandments of modernism - comfort, function, and style - are banished. If Branzi's vision of the new domestic landscape bears any relation to the future home, the places we live and objects around us are on the verge of being radically transformed.

The Hot House dramatically expands the theoretical and operative limits of design. While precedents to Il Nuovo Design (The New Design) can be found in everything from Art Deco to De Stijl to Pop Art to California funk, Italy is the center of this new phenomenon and the "hot house" of its most intense activity. Beginning in the 1960s, there emerged a number of design studios that went by names like Archizoom, 9999, Superstudio, and UFO; their products redefined the basic architecture of furniture and clothing and polemicized an entire discipline.

Andrea Branzi, architect and designer, has been a leading force in Italian design since the 1960s. As the founder of Archizoom Associates and member of the experimental design collective Global Tools, he is responsible for many of the experiments described in this book. He lives and works in Milan, where he is Educational Director of Domus Academy and Editorial Director of Modo.

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The Hot House: Italian New Wave Design
Andrea. Translated by C.H. Evans Branzi
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
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ASIN: B000OQGEVE

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REVIEW from: STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC.......2005-02-07

* Charts the present and future of higher education and the sustainability agenda
* International in scope - the contributors are distinguished academics and active researchers from the UK, the US and Australia
* Essential reading for academics, policy-makers in higher education and sustainable development, higher education authorities and students

In higher education, sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is embraced by some individuals and departments and perceived by others as a threat to the coherence of particular disciplines. It is not a subject in its own right although there are signs that this may now be happening.
This book analyses the impact of the concepts and practices of sustainability and sustainable development on various academic disciplines, institutional practices, fields of study and methods of inquiry. The authors examine the purpose of the modern university and the nature of sustainable education. They explore links to social movements for sustainability, approaches to environmental management, new pedagogies, sustainability projects, curriculum change, culture and biodiversity, values relating to gender equality and global responsibility and case studies on the transformation or otherwise in specific disciplines.

John Blewitt is Deputy Director of the Department of Lifelong Learning at the University of Exeter.

Cedric Cullingford is Professor of Education at the University of Huddersfield.

Contents

Part I: Sustainability and Higher Education; The Development of Sustainability Education Internationally; Citizenship and Community from Local to Global; Learning by Doing; Eco-design; Eco-feminism.

Part II: Sustainability and Education in the Built Environment; Sustainable Transport and Logistics; Accounting Education for Sustainability; Towards a New Economics? Social Policy and Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development, Sociology and UK Higher Education; Politics and Sustainable Development; Geography; Sustainability and Philosophy; The Future: Is Sustainability Sustainable?

Bibliography, Index

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In what way are we called to live amidst our busy world? It is so easy, especially in the work place, to get caught up in the busyness of the day and miss the meaning, lessons and joy in it. The majority of adults spend more waking hours at work than we do in their own homes. The quality of the work place is forming the quality of our homes and our lives. If the work place is not healthy, what are we saying about the health of this society? The purpose of the Place Within Series is to invite brief reflections that connect us to the heart, the soul, the place within. It is the place of peace, silence, wisdom, love, compassion and the source of energy and nourishment. It is a place of hope, always with us, regardless of the external chaos or the extremes that surround us each day at work. When we go within, we are able to reach out and return to the world our strengths and hopes that reflect the unseen capacity of ourselves and an evolving humanity. A unique CD is now available to enhance the reflections that connect one to "The Place Within." It features the beautiful and inspirational voice of Diane Penning.

The Way of Authenticity in the Work Place (Wesorick, 1999) is the second book in the Place Within Series. It is a short, thought provoking read on the topic of being genuine and true to ourselves and others in the work place. It is intentionally designed to offer concentrated insights on authenticity and how it impacts the quality of our life and those we connect with and care about each day.

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Grow Rich With Your Million Dollar Mind
Brian Adams
Manufacturer: Wilshire Book Company
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How to Succeed

ASIN: 0879804300

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Great book.......2000-09-23

This book is loaded with great information that anyone could use to get rich. It is a real nuts and bolts manual that blows every thing else in the genre out of the water. If you want to get rich, buy this book.

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