Garden Crafts: A Practical Guide to Creating Handcrafted Features for Your Garden - Tapa dura

Rudge, Geraldine

 
9781585740550: Garden Crafts: A Practical Guide to Creating Handcrafted Features for Your Garden

Sinopsis

The editor of the British magazine Crafts provides instructions and information about the history of garden crafts using materials including metal and wire, glass, wood, willow and coppice wood, mosaic, and slate, pebble, and shell. Includes inspiring color photographs and step-by-step instructions for making a dozen artful creations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Acerca del autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.

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This unique new book is a practical guide to creating handcrafted features for your garden. Every major craft is covered, including mosaic, metal, wire, glass, pebble, wood, coppice work, and willow. There are ideas for both practical and ornamental features, including decorative pebble paths, hanging glass panels, mosaic pools, wooden whirligigs, driftwood furniture, and willow sculptures.Garden Crafts describes the historical origins of each craft, the diversity of objects that can be made for the garden, materials - new and recycled - and where to get them, paints and other finishes, design considerations such as placement and associated planting, and tools and techniques.Each chapter concludes with two projects to create for your own garden, complete with a list of required materials, step-by-step construction techniques, and beautiful color photographs of the finished project in a garden setting. (9 3/4 X 11 1/4, 148 pages, color photos)

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