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"Shortly after I arrived in America, my wife took me on a drive through the countryside of New England..."
Book Description: David Larkin, an internationally known editor and book designer, first tasted country living at the age of three, as a refugee from wartime London in rural England. Country Wisdom, the first in a projected series of three volumes, is centered around country houses and their outbuildings. Larkin offers a lively, informative text and more than 200 full-color photographs. The text includes everything from vernacular architecture in a historical perspective to restoration and maintenance; from country customs to seasonal festivals; from the kitchens of resourceful country cooks to the secrets of underground storage; from traditional recipes for cleaning formulas to the proper pitch of a roof. ◊ Hardcover: 160 pages ISBN: 0395771897 ◊
Book Description: Here is the successor to COUNTRY WISDOM, the first in David Larkin's series of handsomely illustrated and informative books about country ways and country life. COUNTRY ACRES takes the reader from the country house to its outbuildings - barns, sheds, cribs - and on to its gardens, fields, trees, and ponds. In his charming fashion, Larkin offers information and guidance for country-lovers of all levels of sophistication, explaining how fields get their size and shape; how best to use the tools of country work, from grub hoe to chainsaw; why you should (or shouldn't) grow potatoes; how to farm your trees and grow fish as a food source; and how best to pick and store your crops. All these and hundreds of other topics are covered in this artfully designed volume, with more than two hundred full-color photographs and drawings. Much more than a how-to book, COUNTRY ACRES is about the art of understanding the country.
◊ Hardcover: 160 pages ◊ ISBN: 0395771889 ◊
Book Description: In this, the third volume of David Larkin's Country series, the author takes the country lover or property owner beyond the house, grounds, and gardens to the forest and uncultivated open spaces. With an artist's eye for the right image and a unique way with words, Larkin educates and inspires. Whether the subject is wildflowers and how they tell the time of day; wild food (complete with recipes)--from fruits and nuts to weeds and mushrooms; or wild animals and how to identify their tracks in snow or earth, Larkin brings to all these and more an infectious love for living with nature and its ways. Traditional Gardening magazine praised Country's Wisdom's "fascinating bits of history, lore, practical advice and other interesting information wrapped into a lyric text that forms a paean to country living." Country magazine placed it at "the top of our wish list...like a letter from a knowledgeable friend whose reflections and observations can by turns amaze and amuse."
◊ Hardcover: 160 pages ◊ ISBN: 0395771900 ◊
From Library Journal: Readers of the magazine Antiques will be delighted with this exploration of restored colonial houses, shops, and gardens of the U.S. East Coast by editor in chief Garrett and senior photographer Rocheleau. From Maine to North Carolina, a style of architecture developed that became known as typically American. In fact, it was a predominantly English vernacular type characteristic of the 17th and 18th centuries?although several other countries were contributors as well (for example, the author discusses Ephrata Cloister, a German settlement in southeastern Pennsylvania). Many of the structures illustrated?Van Cortlandt Manor, Mount Vernon, Winterthur, and the buildings of Williamsburg, Virginia?are frequently cited in art history texts, but a few of the examples are less common. The book is beautiful, well illustrated, well written, and informative but, maddeningly, it lacks an index. Nonetheless, it will be useful for libraries with strong art, architecture, or travel collections.
◊ Hardcover: 276 pages ◊ ISBN: 1885254059 ◊
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From Library Journal: Interest in Neoclassicism, both as a subject of study and in the design of interiors, has undergone a resurgence in the last decade. Readers of the magazine Antiques will recognize the name of the author, a former publisher and editor in chief, as well as the 180 lush color photographs, which have been culled from articles featured in the magazine over the years. The photographs capture the interiors and exteriors of outstanding historic houses dating from 1780 to 1830 and located along the Eastern seaboard. Accompanying the photos is helpful commentary on this rich era of American social, political, architectural, and decorative arts history. An index of the structures illustrated in the volume is included. This handsome coffee-table offering will attract lay readers with a general interest in American antiques and traditional decorating tastes.
◊ Paperback: 208 pages ◊ ISBN: 0789300249 ◊
"A PROUD SILHOUETTE looming on the landscape, solitary or surrounded by ells, lean-tos, silos, or sheds, the barn commands attention, respect, even reverence..."
From Library Journal: Symbols of harvest, shelter, honest effort, and quintessential Americana, barns are the epitome of North American vernacular architecture. Barn , a loving tribute to these simple yet powerful structures, contains an informed text by practitioners of barn restoration who treat barns as historical, architectural, and cultural entities. Sections deal with European origins, New World barns, barn raising, and restoration. Some 200 evocative color photos, illuminating diagrams, and overall careful design will appeal to a wide range of readers on many levels. Endersby's Barn is highly recommended for academic and larger public collections. The Pennsylvania Barn focuses on a single type: the forebay bank, or Pennsylvania-German barn, evolved from 18th-century Swiss and German models, which has enriched agricultural landscapes across a broad region of the United States and Canada. Ensminger (geography, Kutztown Univ.) has written a scholarly inquiry of value to cultural and historical geographers, regional folklorists, and students of rural American architecture.
◊ Hardcover: 256 pages ◊ ISBN: 0395573726 ◊
Book Description: Returning to the subject of their bestselling book Barn (1992), David Larkin, with barn preservationists Elric Endersby and Alexander Greenwood, takes the reader on a tour of barns throughout America. Featuring all-new sites and structures, Barn is a perfect introduction for those not yet initiated into the world of barns as well as a definitive resource for all barn owners and architecture enthusiasts.
The book discusses the form and function of American barns. It gives their complete history--from Colonial times to the present, the old and the new--and illustrates the incredible range of styles of these structures. From rural villages in New England to the farmlands of the Midwest, from the Deep South to the Southwest, and up and down the West Coast, Barn: Preservation & Adaptation fully demonstrates the adaptability and enduring charm of one of the most iconic forms of American vernacular architecture.
◊ Unknown Binding: 166 pages ◊ ASIN: B0006Y23OQ ◊
"The buildings on the old Nevers-Bennette farm stand at a small rural crossroads in the town of Sweden, Maine (fig. I)..."
Book Description: The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the connected farm buildings of New England.
◊ Paperback: 240 pages
"The buildings on the old Nevers-Bennette farm stand at a small rural crossroads in the town of Sweden, Maine (fig. I)..."
Book Description: A detailed architectural analysis of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them..
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