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Onetree by Gary Olson,Peter Toaig,Robert Walker,Garry Olson click to enlarge

Onetree

Gary Olson,Peter Toaig,Robert Walker,Garry Olson
The onetree project began in November 1998 with the felling of an ailing 170-year-old oak. To demonstrate the economic and cultural value of British woodlands, every last part of the tree-- down to the bark, leaves and twigs - was distributed among 70 leading designers, artists and makers.

Their work, including furniture, sculpture, jewelry, and toys, formed the onetree exhibition, and every piece is fully illustrated here. A brilliantly concieved and executed project, the book documenting it is truly beautiful. Makes a very nice gift.

160 pgs, 9x11.5, color photos, softcover
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$39.95
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John Berry  
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Christopher Alexander,Sara Ishikawa,Murray Silverstein  
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Editors of Fine Woodworking  
Usually ships in 24 hours From The Best of Fine Woodworking series comes an excellent text on how to take your initial concept of a piece to... [read more]

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book cover unavailable George Nelson: Compact Design Portfolio

Michael Webb,Marisa Bartolucci,Raul Cabra,George Nelson  
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book cover unavailable Harmonic Proportion and Form in Nature, Art and Architecture (Popular Science)

Samuel Colman  
Usually ships in 24 hours A treatise on the laws governing proportional form in nature, art and architecture. Flowers, shells and other natural organisms appear here, along... [read more]

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Ross Lovegrove  
Usually ships in 24 hours Well established as the leading international showcase of domestic design, International Design Yearbook brings together 200 of the best designs from the... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Practical Design Solutions and Strategies: Key Advice for Sound Construction from Fine Woodworking (Essentials of Woodworking)

Fine Woodworking,Fine Woodworking Magazine,Editors of Fine Woodworking magazine  
Usually ships in 24 hours Design describes everything from thinking up and executing a whimsical chair to planning and creating a Shaker table. Here some of the... [read more]

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book cover unavailable Stage Design: A Practical Guide

Gary Thorne  
Usually ships in 24 hours Stage design is carpentry at its weirdest-- it has to look perfect from the audience side, be light enough to move in... [read more]

$35.00
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book cover unavailable Surfaces : Visual Research for Artists, Architects, and Designers (MacIntosh compatible)

Judy A. Juracek  
Usually ships in 24 hours This unusual book gives you 1,200 color photos of surfaces and textures, as a design resource or scan master. Categories of materials... [read more]

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book cover unavailable The Curves of Life (Dover Books Explaining Science)

Theodore A. Cook  
Usually ships in 24 hours Subtitled (yes, an add-on to the title that says so much!) "With Special Reference to the Manuscripts of Leonardo Da Vinci." This... [read more]

$16.95
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book cover unavailable The Nature and Aesthetics of Design

David Pye  
In stock soon. Order now to get in line. First come, first served. Prof. Pye establishes a basic theory of design, in a lucid style and in jargon-free language. This book is of special importance... [read more]

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book cover unavailable The Oregon Experiment (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Christopher Alexander  
Usually ships in 24 hours Focusing on a plan for an extension ot the University of Oregon, Alexander shows how any community might go about designing and... [read more]

$59.95
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book cover unavailable The Production of Houses (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

Christopher Alexander,Howard Davis,Julio Martinez  
Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks Alexander provides a fascinating account of a group of houses in northern Mexico that he and his associates built according to his... [read more]

$59.95
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book cover unavailable The Timeless Way of Building

Christopher Alexander  
Usually ships in 24 hours This is the opening work in Chistopher Alexander's seminal trilogy, and the introduction to his sweeping thought. In a nutshell, his thesis... [read more]

$55.00
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book cover unavailable The Unknown Craftsman: A Japanese Insight into Beauty

Soetsu Yanagi,Soetsu Tanagi,Muneyoshi Yanagi  
Usually ships in 24 hours Written as an appreciation for works of the anonymous craftsmen of Japan's past, the author sees folk art as a manifestation of... [read more]

$35.00
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book cover unavailable Woodworkers Guide to Furniture Design

Garth Graves  
Usually ships in 24 hours Get those ideas out of your head and into working drawings. Covers developing a design philosophy; applying standards of size, shape and... [read more]

$23.99
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book cover unavailable Woodworkers' Essential Facts, Formulas & Short-Cuts: Figure It Out, With or Without Math (Woodworker's Essentials & More series)

Ken Horner  
Usually ships in 24 hours Every workshop operation requires knowing some kind of measurement, formula, fact, or calculation. Workshop problems usually can be solved with mathematics, but... [read more]

$24.95
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