Art&DesignSpring2025

Fairy Homes and Gardens Barbara Purchia and E. Ashley Rooney. Fairy Homes and Gardens. Barbara Purchia and E. Ashley Rooney. Introduc- tion by David D. J. Rau. Using natural and con- temporary mediums, 30 designers portray their fairy worlds in a variety of settings. More than 200 images take you on a virtual wonderland tour around the world. Sit back and revel in their creativity or be inspired to make your own fairy home or garden. • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206mm) • 256 color images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-4698-9 • HC • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD Fancy Fences & Gates: Great Ideas for Backyard Carpenters Tina Skinner. This rich resource shows dozens of beautifully crafted fences and gates. A how-to section helps you plan, plot, and execute your own project. Included are ideas for privacy fences, fence/planter combinations, built-in seating, and arbor gates • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 74 photos, 12 graphics • 64 pp. • 978-0-7643-1417-9 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Fences, Gates & Walls Ashley Rooney. Adding a wall or fence to your property can be a major decision. It requires good design and good thinking to identify the style, design, and material that meets your needs. Hundreds of examples are shown in 316 full color photos, offering a comprehensive reference for home- owners, architects, landscapers, and builders • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 316 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-2643-1•PB•$24.95 / £22.99 / $34.95CAD Garden Ornaments: Pots, Pergolas, Pedestals, and More E. Ashley Rooney. Statues, fountains, sundials, and obelisks—garden ornaments can breathe life into a garden, no matter its size. Experience an insider’s tour of garden ornaments and learn from five notable artists as they describe their philosophies of art. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 489 photos • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-1956-3 • HC • $34.95 / £31.99 / $48.95 CAD Garden Ornaments and Antiques Myra Yellin Outwater & Eric B. Outwater. Visit hundreds of beau- tiful gardens and enjoy marble and stone walkways, garden walls, tiered fountains, statuary, architectural ruins, birdbaths, sundials, urns, garden furnishings, and iron gates. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 582 photos • 224 pp. • 978-0-7643-1125-3 • HC • $39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95 CAD Garden Projects for the Backyard Carpenter Tina Skinner. Thirty great project ideas! Illustrations and step-by-step instructions make it easy to create more than 30 projects: decks and shade shelters, ga- zebos, work and storage areas, decorative arbors, planter boxes and garden borders, benches and a swing, a picnic table, doghouses, and a bluebird nesting box. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 438 photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-1234-2 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Making Concrete Sculpture T. J. Neil. More than 370 color photos display concrete sculptures, both complete and under construction, providing valuable insights into the creation of concrete art. The many subjects portrayed provide artists with inspiration for projects large and small, including fishermen, alligators, dolphins, manatees, frogs, grizzly bears, whales, hors- es, panthers, cows, sharks, elephants, and dragons. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 371 color photos • 160 pp. •978-0-7643-2714-8•PB•$29.95 / £27.99 / $56.95CAD The Original Pink Flamingos: Splendor on the Grass Don Featherstone, Text by Tom Herzing. Text by Tom Herzing. 100+ color photos of pink plastic flamingoes in amazing, funny, and strange settings provide fun and laughter. “In 1957, Don Featherstone sculptured the first three-dimensional pink plastic flamingo, thereby making affordable bad taste accessible to the American public • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 105 color photos • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-0963-2 • PB • $14.99 / £13.99 / $19.95 CAD Outdoor Carpentry: Make it Yourself Anna & Anders Jeppsson and Hans-Ove Ohlsson. Outdoor Carpentry is the first “tool” you need to fulfill all your dreams for a large terrace, a flower box, an outdoor kitchen, a fence, a shed, a small bench, an entire carport, or a whole array of other projects for the yard. The 65 projects outlined here have varying levels of difficulty, so it doesn’t matter if you are a beginner or a practiced hobby woodworker • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 328 color images & diags. • 184 pp. • 978-0- 7643-4434-3 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Outdoor Wood Works: With Complete Plans for Ten Projects Tina Skinner. Hundreds of home project ideas in wood presented in full-color photographs. Ten complete project plans range from the simplest of constructions—a screen around a utility box, a mailbox stand with planter, and a bench—to more advanced projects, including a chair, a picnic table, and an outdoor storage shed • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 146 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-0446-0 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Children’s Playhouses: Plans & Ideas Tina Skin- ner. Picturing hundreds of colorful, creative children’s playhouses from fancy Victorians to neo-classical creations, all built in a child’s scale. Plans and blueprints for six playhouses are provided, and a resource guide to manufacturers • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 192 color &b/w images •160 pp. •978-0-7643-1416-2•PB• $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD The Deck Book: Inspirational Design Ideas Melissa CardonaHickory Dickory Decks. Explores hun- dreds of custom-built decks in more than 300 inspiring color photographs. Includes ideas for planters, railings, privacy screens, deck skirting, fire pits, gazebos, per- golas, built-in spas and barbecue areas, large steps, and lighting options. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 300+color photos •128 pp. •978-0-7643-2284-6•PB• $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Espalier Fruit Trees For Wall, Hedge and Pergola: Installation • Shaping • Care Karl Pieber & Peter Modl. By training fruit trees and shrubs you accomplish two goals: improved appearance and increased produc- tivity. All types of trellises, including wall-covering cordons and free-standing pergolas, are featured here. • 7" x 10" (177 x 254 mm) • 240 color photos & sketches • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-4488-6 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Antique Garden Tools and Accessories Myra Yellin Outwater, with photography by Eric Boe Outwa- ter. 200 years of garden history are presented in the hundreds of tools and accessories that gardeners used to dig the soil, cut scrub, harrow fields, and trim borders. With more than 750 color photographs, concise captions, and a guide to prices in today’s antique marketplace, this is a useful as well as beautiful exploration of gar- den implements • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 750+ color photos•192pp. •978-0-7643-1478-0•HC•$39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95 CAD Basic Topiary: A Living Approach Dean Myers. The art of topiary is made accessible to every gardener. With well-illustrated, easy-to-understand instructions, three projects are offered: a peacock (with instructions for its transformation into an angel), a Gothic arch, and a duck. The projects shown use small potted plants from the nursery, but the techniques are readily adapt- ed to shrubs and bushes in the garden • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) •262 color images •64pp. •978-0-7643- 3634-8 • PB • $16.99 / £15.99 / $23.99 CAD Beach Boundaries: Fences and Gates of Southern California Linda Byrne and Robert Scott. Tour gardens and homes of Los Angeles County: Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach, and Redondo Beach. Here find compelling photographs that act as a guide for homeowners and garden- ers who are looking to define their outdoor spaces. • 9 1/8" x 8 1/8" (231 x 206 mm) • 114 color photos • 80 pp. • 978-0-7643-4097-0 • PB • $12.99 / £11.99 / $17.99 CAD The Big Book of Gazebos, Pergolas, and Other Backyard Architecture Tom Denlick & Tina Skinner. More than 400 photos illustrating an inconceivable quantity of architectural additions for the backyard, from arched gateways to grand gazebos, pretty per- golas, picture-perfect pagodas, and fascinating follies. An illustrated glossary gives you the language and historical reference to achieve a more interesting home and garden. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 422 photos & 40 illustrations • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-3170-1 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Victorian Gardens Caroline Holmes. Many resto- rations and re-creations of Victorian gardens are high- lighted, including Osborne House on the Isle of Wight (Queen Victoria’s country home), Biddulph Grange in Staffordshire, and Down House in Kent (home to Charles Darwin). Authentic Victorian writings, design instruc- tions, and illustrations guide the modern gardener • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 200+ color photos • 160 pp. •978-0-7643-1889-4•HC•$30.00 / £27.99 / $42.95CAD 1000 Fences and Gates Jo Cryder. Packed with fences and gates of every kind and descrip- tion, from practical and functional to purely or- namental, from rustic to sophisticated, from unusual to inspired. A wealth of wrought iron as well as wood and mixed materials are represent- ed in this huge portfolio • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 708 color photos • 152 pp. • 978-0-7643- 2409-3 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / $34.95 CAD All Decked Out Redwood Decks: Ideas and Plans for Contemporary Outdoor Living Tina Skinner. More than 200 color photographs of decks from around the country are presented with plans and ideas for overcoming slopes, incorporating trees, en- circling spas, creating conversation pits, and enhancing gardens. Planner and hints to get started. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 212 color photos/31 illus. • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-0510-8•PB•$29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95CAD Magical Fairy Homes and Gardens Barbara Pur- chia & E. Ashley Rooney, Foreword by David D. J. Rau. Featuring the work of dozens of talented artists, this richly illustrated and redesigned follow-up to Purchia and Rooney's Fairy Homes & Gardens further spurs the imagination with images and stories of more than 50 new fairy dwellings. • 6 3/4" x 8 3/4" (171 x 222 mm) • 282color and2B&Wimages•144pp. •978-0-7643-6745- 8 • PB • $24.99 US / £22.99 / 35.99 CAD LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE & ACCESSORIES 82 | LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE & ACCESORIES