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  • Life at the Top: New York's Exceptional Apartment Buildings by Henckels, Kirk
    Kirk Henckels

    Life at the Top: New York's Most Exceptional Apartment Buildings

    What are New York City's best apartment buildings? Before 1900, it was the Dakota and the Osborne; soon after came McKim, Mead & White's 998 Fifth and the ultra-soigné 820 Fifth Avenue. The roaring twenties produced true luxury: 740 Park Avenue, the art deco-inspired...
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  • Artists in Adobe by Stedman, Myrtle
    Myrtle Stedman

    Artists in Adobe

    The author finished the drawings in this book in 1937 when the images were fresh in her mind. Together with the story, they give an insight into what many artists were doing in the twenties and thirties, not only as an aftermath of the...
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  • Anglo-Norman Castles by Liddiard, Robert E.
    Robert E. Liddiard

    Anglo-Norman Castles

    Wide-ranging studies offer an in-depth analysis of castle-building 11th - 12th centuries and place castles within their broader social and political context. The castles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries remain among the most visible symbols of the Anglo-Norman world. This collection brings together...
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  • Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair by Schrenk, Lisa D.
    Lisa D. Schrenk

    Building a Century of Progress: The Architecture of Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair

    From the summer of 1933 to the fall of 1934, more than 38 million fairgoers visited a 3-mile stretch along Lake Michigan, home to Chicago's second World's Fair. Millions more experienced the Century of Progress International Exposition through newspaper and magazine articles, newsreels, and...
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  • The Log Cabin: An American Icon by Hoagland, Alison K.
    Alison K. Hoagland

    The Log Cabin: An American Icon

    For roughly a century, the log cabin occupied a central and indispensable role in the rapidly growing United States. Although it largely disappeared as a living space, it lived on as a symbol of the settling of the nation. In her thought-provoking and generously...
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  • Sustainable, Affordable, Prefab: The ecoMOD Project by Quale, John D.
    John D. Quale

    Sustainable, Affordable, Prefab: The ecoMOD Project

    Sustainable Affordable Prefab combines architectural theory and practice in a beautifully illustrated account of ecoMOD, the innovative design/build program pioneered by John Quale. Unlike most manifestos of green design, Quale's book describes a collaborative process that has produced, to date, four elegantly designed, built...
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  • Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States by Sadowski-Smith, Claudia
    Claudia Sadowski-Smith

    Border Fictions: Globalization, Empire, and Writing at the Boundaries of the United States

    Border Fictions offers the first comparative analysis of multiethnic and transnational cultural representations about the United States' borders with Mexico and Canada. Blending textual analysis with theories of globalization and empire, Claudia Sadowski-Smith forges a new model of inter-American studies.Border Fictions places into dialogue...
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  • Ante Bellum Houses of the Bluegrass: The Development of Residential Architecture in Fayette County, Kentucky by Lancaster, Clay
    Clay Lancaster

    Ante Bellum Houses of the Bluegrass: The Development of Residential Architecture in Fayette County, Kentucky

    The ante bellum homes of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky, are both more numerous and more distinctive in design than those of many communities of similar age. Founded in 1775, Lexington by the turn of the century had become the chief cultural center north...
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  • Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers by Rybczynski, Witold
    Witold Rybczynski

    Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers

    The Miami estate of Vizcaya, like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and power. In Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, a...
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  • A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina by Bishir, Catherine W.
    Catherine W. Bishir

    A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina

    Central North Carolina boasts a rich and varied architectural landscape--from the early plantation houses and farms of its northeastern reaches, to the red brick textile mills and tobacco factories that line railroads across the region, to the glamorous New South skyscrapers of downtown Charlotte....
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  • The Shingle Style Today: Or, the Historian's Revenge by Scully, Vincent
    Vincent Scully

    The Shingle Style Today: Or, the Historian's Revenge

    The Shingle Style embodied intellectual pluralism and cultural democracy--ideals fundamental to American belief and developed quickly and richly. After a period of reaction against the Shingle Style, it was revitalized, finding its first fully renewed expression in 1959 in a design for a beach...
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  • Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House by Berliner, Nancy
    Nancy Berliner

    Yin Yu Tang: The Architecture and Daily Life of a Chinese House

    With hundreds of photographs and a wealth of information, Yin Yu Tang tells the history of a traditional Chinese house and the fascinating stories of its occupants. In the late Qing dynasty, around the year 1800, a prosperous Chinese merchant named Huang built a...
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  • Alone Together by Cromley, Elizabeth Collins
    Elizabeth Collins Cromley

    Alone Together

    Twentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new--and somewhat suspect--architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of the "invention" of New York apartment houses.Author:...
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  • All the Buildings in London: That I've Drawn So Far by Hancock, James Gulliver
    James Gulliver Hancock

    All the Buildings in London: That I've Drawn So Far

    The follow-up to the hugely popular All the Buildings in New York, this is a charmingly illustrated journey through London, one building at a time. All the Buildings in London is a love letter to London, told through James Gulliver Hancock's unique and charming...
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  • 21st Century House by Bell, Jonathan
    Jonathan Bell

    21st Century House

    This richly illustrated survey, bound in an elegant portable format, profiles the most architecturally distinguished new houses from around the globe. Features 300 color photographs and 150 black-and-white architectural drawings. The diversity of the fifty-five houses featured in this photo-packed volume, by architects like...
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  • Australia Modern: 15 Houses in Harmony with the Land by Huyton, Steve
    Steve Huyton

    Australia Modern: 15 Houses in Harmony with the Land

    Australia has wildly differing topographies and climates, and its best residential architecture draws on those site conditions in inventive ways. This book illustrates the strength of the country's shift from British-influenced Georgian-style homes to more indigenous structures attuned to the land--a movement led by...
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  • Newport Mansions: Postcards of the Gilded Age by Santi, Federico
    Federico Santi

    Newport Mansions: Postcards of the Gilded Age

    Newport, Rhode Island, nicknamed "the Queen of Resorts," has been celebrated in beautiful postcard portrayals for over a hundred years. Today, these vintage cards illuminate the glories of the Gilded Age, when huge mansions or "cottages" built by competing industrialists blossomed along Bellevue Avenue...
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  • Leeding the Way: Domestic Architecture for the Future: Leed Certified, Green, Passive & Natural by Rooney, E. Ashley
    E. Ashley Rooney

    Leeding the Way: Domestic Architecture for the Future: Leed Certified, Green, Passive & Natural

    This book takes you through 53 homes that reflect the growing trend for environmentally friendly houses. Resource- and energy-efficient residences are designed to be healthy, comfortable, and easy to live in, and construction of a sustainable home includes using less energy, fewer natural resources,...
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  • Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles by Eng, John
    John Eng

    Modern Tract Homes of Los Angeles

    Affordable housing for the masses has been an age-old problem that some of the best minds in the world have tried to solve. Never was it more critical than after World War II, when many cities and economies were wiped clean and the world-quite...
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  • Lowcountry Plantations: Georgia & South Carolina by Skinner, Tina
    Tina Skinner

    Lowcountry Plantations: Georgia & South Carolina

    Visit treasured house museums in the lowcountry of South Carolina and Georgia, exploring the essence of ante-bellum elegance. 222 lovely color photographs guide you through the corridors of nine classically built, exquisite manor homes and the shaded pathways that wend through heirloom gardens. Experience...
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  • Modern American Homes: Prairie & Craftsman Architecture by Von Holst, H. V.
    H. V. Von Holst

    Modern American Homes: Prairie & Craftsman Architecture

    In 1913, a Chicago architect compiled this wonderful portfolio of American homes and buildings that he said embodied "the back to nature" movement of the times. Today, this faithful reprint is a treasure of Craftsman bungalow and Prairie house styles, including work by the...
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  • Meissen's Blue and White Porcelain by Zumbulyadis, Nicholas
    Nicholas Zumbulyadis

    Meissen's Blue and White Porcelain

    Over 360 stunning color photos display exquisite blue and white decorated dining services, candelabrums, tea and coffee services, centerpieces, vases, and more, created by Germany's famous Meissen porcelain manufactory. Ranging from rare, early eighteenth century museum pieces to nineteenth century plates and platters readily...
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  • Barn Style Living: Design and Plan Inspiration for Timber Frame Homes by Skinner, Tina
    Tina Skinner

    Barn Style Living: Design and Plan Inspiration for Timber Frame Homes

    From the outside in, explore exquisite timber frame homes at your leisure. Floor plans serve as your tour guide, while leading architectural photographers illuminate the astonishing spaces and intimate detailing of authentic homes. Each evokes the grandeur of the inherited barn-style form, while expressing...
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  • Old Barns - New Homes: A Showcase of Architectural Conversions by Rooney, E. Ashley
    E. Ashley Rooney

    Old Barns - New Homes: A Showcase of Architectural Conversions

    Barns strike a sentimental chord among the populace, perhaps as reminder of our nation's agricultural heritage, most definitely as symbols of solid and imposing timber frame forms. While many of these architecturally significant buildings are succumbing to neglect and development, others are getting a...
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  • Master Built Pools & Patios: An Inspiring Portfolio of Design Ideas by Skinner, Tina
    Tina Skinner

    Master Built Pools & Patios: An Inspiring Portfolio of Design Ideas

    If you're contemplating a new pool project, and if you want it to outshine all others, this is the book for you. Here is a virtual, vicarious tour of nearly 300 spectacular swim-able waterscapes by the world's top pool builders, members of the elite...
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  • Saltbox and Cape Cod Houses by Schuler, Stanley
    Stanley Schuler

    Saltbox and Cape Cod Houses

    Here is a new, larger edition of a classic reference. From its origins on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the seventeenth century, this charming and practical style of house has been transplanted and modified to accommodate varying life styles from as far away as Hawai...
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  • Building an American Identity: Pattern Book Homes and Communities, 1870-1900 by Smeins, Linda E.
    Linda E. Smeins

    Building an American Identity: Pattern Book Homes and Communities, 1870-1900

    Queen Anne or Victorian, these beautiful houses have become nostalgic sites in our historical memory. Linda Smeins explores the development of pattern-book houses, considered the new "modern suburban home" of the late 19th century. Through a discussion of pattern-book designs and plans and pattern-book-inspired...
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  • A Pocket Guide to Irish Castles: The Story of Ireland's Amazing Heritage by Biggs, Fiona
    Fiona Biggs

    A Pocket Guide to Irish Castles: The Story of Ireland's Amazing Heritage

    The stories of Ireland's best-known castles. Majestic and magnificent, designed to both intimidate and inspire, castles are a common feature across Ireland's landscape, with over 1000 examples remaining - some intact, some in ruins, all awesome. This book celebrates the most popular Irish castles,...
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  • Elemental: The Architecture of Alejandro Aravena by Aravena, Alejandro
    Alejandro Aravena

    Elemental: The Architecture of Alejandro Aravena

    A spectacular, visually rich monograph on one of the most visionary architecture firms of the twenty-first century led by 2016 Pritzker Prize-winner Alejandro AravenaElemental, based in Santiago, Chile, epitomizes a new generation of pioneering, socially engaged architects. The firm specializes in innovative, powerful, and...
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  • Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden by Bell, Quentin
    Quentin Bell

    Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden

    Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virghinia Nicholson,...
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  • Friar Park: 1919 Estate Auction Catalogue: Special Black & White Edition by Cardinal, Scott
    Scott Cardinal

    Friar Park: 1919 Estate Auction Catalogue: Special Black & White Edition

    Famous as the home of musician George Harrison, Friar Park has been one of the finest country estates in England, with beautiful architectural structures and gardens. This is a Special Edition of the original 1919 Estate Auction Catalogue when Friar Park was put up...
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  • The First Passive Solar Home Awards by U. S. Department of Energy
    U. S. Department of Energy

    The First Passive Solar Home Awards

    This book reviews the 162 passive solar home designs chosen for awards, providing drawings and descriptions. It also discusses selection of solar alternatives, commonly-made thermal mistakes, construction details, energy calculations, and more.Author: U. S. Department of Energy, Et AlISBN-10: 1410224961ISBN-13: 9781410224965Publisher: University Press of...
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  • Village and Farm Cottages by Cleaveland, Henry W.
    Henry W. Cleaveland

    Village and Farm Cottages

    One of the most important architectural pattern books, originally published in 1856. Contents: The House Considered in its Influence on the Occupants The Value of a Permanent Home Home in the Country The Village The Choice of a Lot The Adoption of a Plan...
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  • American Architects and the Single-Family Home: Lessons Learned from the Architects' Small House Service Bureau by Tucker, Lisa M.
    Lisa M. Tucker

    American Architects and the Single-Family Home: Lessons Learned from the Architects' Small House Service Bureau

    American Architects and the Single-Family Home explains how a small group of architects started the Architects' Small House Service Bureau in 1919 and changed the course of twentieth-century residential design for the better. Concepts and principles they developed related to public spaces, private spaces,...
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: American Architecture in the Depression Era by Zipf, Catherine W.
    Catherine W. Zipf

    Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater: American Architecture in the Depression Era

    New Deal Book Award 2022 Honourable MentionFrank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater explores the relationship between the economic tumult in the United States in the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the construction of his most famous house, Fallingwater. The book reinterprets the history of this iconic...
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  • An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture by Loudon, J. C.
    J. C. Loudon

    An Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture

    Ranging in coverage from humble cottages to grand villas, this encyclopaedia was compiled by the Scottish landscape gardener John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843). Its ambition, as stated in the introduction, was 'to improve the dwellings of the great mass of society'. Hundreds of types of...
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  • The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the Parsonage to the Palace by Kerr, Robert
    Robert Kerr

    The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the Parsonage to the Palace

    After Scottish architect Robert Kerr (1823-1904) published this book in 1864, he was given a commission to build what would become his best-known work, Bearwood House, in Berkshire, for the then proprietor of The Times of London, John Walter. Kerr gives a thorough explanation...
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  • Through the Crystal Ball of the Chancellor's Residence: North Carolina State University 1928-2012 by Little, Margaret Ruth
    Margaret Ruth Little

    Through the Crystal Ball of the Chancellor's Residence: North Carolina State University 1928-2012

    Through the Crystal Ball of the Chancellor's Residence brings you inside the original 1928 Chancellor's Residence at 1803 Hillsborough Street to share the vision and the family life of each of the university's leaders, from President Brooks to Chancellor Woodson. Just as the glass...
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  • Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 3, Southern England by Emery, Anthony
    Anthony Emery

    Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 3, Southern England

    This is the third volume of Anthony Emery's magisterial survey, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500, first published in 2006. Across the three volumes Emery has examined afresh and re-assessed over 750 houses, the first comprehensive review of the subject for 150...
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  • Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500: Volume 1, Northern England by Emery, Anthony
    Anthony Emery

    Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300 1500: Volume 1, Northern England

    This the first of a three-volume survey of more than 700 greater houses of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that survive in England and Wales, and the first to be undertaken for over 150 years and by far the most comprehensive to date. All...
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  • Artists' Homes by Harford-Thompson, Tom
    Tom Harford-Thompson

    Artists' Homes

    In this beautifully illustrated book, writer and photographer Tom Harford-Thompson presents individual, eccentric homes and workspaces, from a music producer's studio to an ecowarrior's treehouse. His evocative photographs show how our life/work spaces, whether a tumbledown cottage, a country farmhouse, or a reclaimed factory,...
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  • A Basic Guide to Fair Housing Accessibility: Everything Architects and Builders Need to Know about the Fair Housing ACT Accessibility by Steven Winter Associates Inc
    Steven Winter Associates Inc

    A Basic Guide to Fair Housing Accessibility: Everything Architects and Builders Need to Know about the Fair Housing ACT Accessibility

    The guide that takes the guesswork out of Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines conformance The Federal government is stepping up its enforcement of the Fair Housing Act Accessibility Guidelines, and failure to comply with these guidelines can result in a complaint for discriminatory housing...
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  • Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity by Chusid, Jeffrey M.
    Jeffrey M. Chusid

    Saving Wright: The Freeman House and the Preservation of Meaning, Materials, and Modernity

    "Dear Mrs. Freeman: I am glad to know that you are still happily 'at home.' Sincerely, Frank Lloyd Wright."Winner of The University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation's 2012 Historic Preservation Book Prize, this book is a case study on the preservation of...
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  • Interior Landscapes: Horticulture and Design by Malitz, Jerome
    Jerome Malitz

    Interior Landscapes: Horticulture and Design

    Delving into all aspects of designing and maintaining unique interior landscapes, this colorfully illustrated book demonstrates how to realize landscapes for a variety of different interiors, from private homes to corporate office buildings, and in styles ranging from naturalistic to abstract. Photographic examples of...
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  • Islamic Palace Architecture in the Western Mediterranean: A History by Arnold, Felix
    Felix Arnold

    Islamic Palace Architecture in the Western Mediterranean: A History

    Palaces like the Aljafer�a and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at C�rdoba, Kairouan and many other sites has vastly increased our knowledge about the origin and development of Islamic palatial architecture, particularly in...
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  • Design in Familiar Places: What Makes Home Environments Look Good by Brower, Sidney
    Sidney Brower

    Design in Familiar Places: What Makes Home Environments Look Good

    Residents look at their neighborhood differently than visitors and designers do. The features that they see as most important can differ significantly, so that spaces that are viewed as successful by designers may be disliked by residents. Designers who hope to create successful residential...
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  • Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury by Harris, Neil
    Neil Harris

    Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury

    The Chicago lakefront is one of America's urban wonders. The ribbon of high-rise luxury apartment buildings along the Lake Michigan shore has few, if any, rivals nationwide for sustained architectural significance. This historic confluence of site, money, style, and development lies at the heart...
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  • The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright by Connors, Joseph
    Joseph Connors

    The Robie House of Frank Lloyd Wright

    The Robie House in Chicago is one of the world's most famous houses, a masterpiece from the end of Frank Lloyd Wright's early period and a classic example of the Prairie House. This book is intended as a companion for the visitor to the...
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  • The Architect's Guide to Residential Design by Malone, Michael
    Michael Malone

    The Architect's Guide to Residential Design

    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO RESIDENTIAL DESIGN FOR ARCHITECTS AND CLIENTSWritten by a successful practitioner of both residential and...
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  • Beautiful Built-Ins: Plans for Designing with Stock Cabinets by Edwards, Connie
    Connie Edwards

    Beautiful Built-Ins: Plans for Designing with Stock Cabinets

    Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.ALL THE DETAILS, PLANS, AND IDEAS YOU NEED TO USE STOCK KITCHEN CABINETS TO CREATE BUILT-INS THROUGHOUT THE...
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