Stone by Design

Stone by Design
Author: Lew French
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2005-08-08
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 1423610962

More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art.

Patio & Stone: A Sunset Design Guide

Patio & Stone: A Sunset Design Guide
Author: Tom Wilhite
Publisher: Oxmoor House
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2009-02-17
Genre: House & Home
ISBN: 9780376013491

All the latest ideas on design and materials, along with essential landscaping advice from landscaping professionals, so that you can create unique outdoor living spaces. Expert designers | Experience garden design and landscaping professionals guide you in creating the patio you want on a budget you can afford Real-world solutions | Pro-designed patios and garden stonework show the best ways to pull all the elements together to create a cohesive, comfortable outdoor space At a glance | Clear, concise charts make it easy to choose materials based on appearance, durability, ease of installation, and price Go green | The latest information n green materials and landscaping techniques

Managing the Design Process-Concept Development

Managing the Design Process-Concept Development
Author: Terry Stone
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1610580664

This book illustrates the point where theory meets practice in the design studio environment. This book examines design management concepts and methods in real-world applications. Unlike other books on design management, this book is visually stunning, featuring many image-rich case studies to illustrate the fundamentals of design management in a way that speaks to a design audience. The information is not something that is typically taught in design (or business) school—it’s learned on the job, making this an invaluable reference for designers.

Stone Designs for the Home

Stone Designs for the Home
Author: John T. Morris
Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2008
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781423601944

Dozens of full-color photographs capture the diverse applications of stone for both interior and exterior designs for the home, covering such areas as flooring, fireplaces, bathrooms, hot tubs, swimming pools, walls, driveways, doors, benches, and sculptures, and offering a description of the different types of materials available--marble, sandstone, flagstone, limestone, and others.

Stone Houses

Stone Houses
Author: Steve Parsons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1984
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

The Design of Books

The Design of Books
Author: Adrian Wilson
Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
Total Pages: 159
Release: 1993
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780811803045

Sticks and Stones

Sticks and Stones
Author: Lew French
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1423637593

Lew French is a master stonemason who finds and gathers hundreds of individual stones to create a single fireplace or an outdoor stone wall that looks like it had been there for hundreds of years. Rather than use a chisel, his stones have to fit together naturally; he remembers and fits them together in his mind’s eye. From a huge outdoor water feature at an office building near Boston, to a residential landscape on Chappaquiddick, to his own retreat home in the mountains of Brazil, each creation is breathtaking. New to this second book on Lew French's designs, are gallery-quality, framed art pieces, puzzled together from rock and driftwood, resulting in one-of-a-kind wall sculptures. Fans of natural building and all kinds of masonry will be more than impressed. Lew French is the designer, architect, and builder of his work. He has spent over 30 years working on Martha’s Vineyard, Boston, in the Adirondacks, and other Northeastern locations. He has built his own home in Brazil. He was inducted into the New England Design Hall of Fame in 2015. Alison Shaw is a fine art and editorial photographer who works and teaches on Martha’s Vineyard. Over 8,000 of her original fine art prints are in public and private collections. There are 19 books of her work so far, including a book she wrote about photographing Martha’s Vineyard.

Landscaping with Stone, 2nd Edition

Landscaping with Stone, 2nd Edition
Author: Pat Sagui
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2016-12-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1607653974

Provides information for incorporating natural stone in a landscape and step-by-step instructions for a number of popular stone projects. Contains more than 335 color photos and 40 illustrations.

Stone

Stone
Author: William Hall
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-09-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780714879253

Stone is a fascinating, fresh and insightful global tour of the world's oldest and most beautiful building material Featuring more than 170 structures, from prehistory through to today, the book includes an incredible range of buildings: awe-inspiring Neolithic monuments and the epic Pyramids of Giza feature alongside the work of twentieth-century icons, from Mies van der Rohe's seminal Barcelona Pavilion to Marcel Breuer's daring Met building in New York. There are also projects by the world's best contemporary architects, from Snøhetta's angular Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo to Kengo Kuma's sculptural Chokkura Plaza in Japan and David Chipperfield's geometric Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Arranged to promote comparison and discussion, each project includes an extended caption providing a perceptive commentary on the building. An elegant and informative visual exploration, Stone demonstrates the remarkable variety of creative and innovative structures the material has inspired around the world.

Stone Houses

Stone Houses
Author: James B. Garrison
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0847840786

Essential Colonial Revival–style stone houses in bucolic settings—on hillsides, beside streams—and their inviting interiors, by the architect who popularized the beloved form. Stone Houses showcases a beloved kind of home that many of us aspire to own and live in—a place of warmth and security, of charm and romance. The stone house speaks to a very basic dream of stability and comfort, and the houses featured here represent the epitome of this dream. Built in traditional styles with artful construction and considered design between 1904 and 1943, these gems display the hallmarks we associate with the stone house, here polished and beautifully presented: deep fireplaces, thick beamed ceilings, wide plank floors, and country kitchens. Focusing on the work of the eminent architect R. Brognard Okie, who is credited with having greatly contributed to a popular appreciation and understanding of early American domestic architecture and who has had a lasting impact on American residential design, this book will both enchant the reader and serve as an unprecedented resource.