Art&DesignWinter2024

Concrete Flatwork: For Homeowners and Con- tractors George Garber. Learn all you need to know to plan and complete small concrete pavement jobs around the house, including footpaths, driveways, patios, sports surfaces, and indoor floor slabs. Covers basics like ordering concrete, adding joints, and curing, with specialized topics • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 109 photos & graphics • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3369-9 • PB • $19.99 / £18.99 / $28.99 CAD Creative Patios Tina Skinner. This collection of beautiful photographs showcases the artistry of those who sculpt outdoor living environments with solid rock, impressed and tinted concrete, and brick in many forms. This will help you choose a patio style suitable for your home, learn to speak your contractor’s language, and pick a plan that fits your style. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 310 photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-1278-6 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD Decorating with Concrete Outdoors: Driveways, Paths & Patios, Pool Decks, & More Tina Skinner. The rich look of stone, brickwork, and worn cobble paving can be duplicated in concrete, usually for less initial cost and with vastly improved conditions for maintenance, safety, and durability. This book takes you on an exploration of amazing patios, walkways, driveways, and much more • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 216 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-2199-3 • PB • $20.00 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Hardscaping with Decorative Concrete Tina Skinner. More than 200 color images take you on a journey into the ever-evolving world of decorative concrete. Explore techniques that recreate favorite paving options for hardscaping projects around the pool, patio, driveway and entryway, and walkways. This book is packed with ideas for adding curb appeal to the front of your home • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 222 color photos • 112 pp. • 978-0-7643-2598-4 • PB • $19.95 / £18.99 / $28.95 CAD Patios, Driveways, and Plazas: The Pattern Language of Concrete Pavers David R. Smith & the Interlocking Concrete Pavement Institute. Concrete pavers are one of the hottest pavements around homes, commercial buildings, and urban spaces. 300-plus color photos demonstrate how specific patterns, colors, and textures enhance every outdoor environment. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 327 color photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-1561-9 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD Building Dry-Stack Stone Walls Rob Gallagher, Sean Malone & Joe Piazza. Provides thorough, step- by-step procedures for three projects using stones of various sizes from the smallest all the way up to boul- ders, with a focus on a safe work environment. A gallery of wall images will inspire you to start stacking. • 8 1/2" x 11" (279 x 215 mm) • 500+ color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-3056-8 • PB • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Building Outdoor Environments with Retaining Walls Tina Skinner. Step-by-step instructions will walk you through the process of creating these showpieces using concrete products widely available on today’s landscaping market. Over 250 color images display outdoor kitchens, front entry courtyards, water features, patio settings, flower beds, and raised seating • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 250+ photos • 128 pp. • 978-0- 7643-2542-7 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / $34.95 CAD Built with Stone: Eight Contemporary Artisans Steven Paul Whitsitt & Jesse Marth. This design book showcases the work of eight master stoneworkers in a wide variety of interior and exterior projects. Large, full-color photography captures stone constructions including retaining walls, steps, fireplaces, patios, wa- ter features, and free standing structures. • 9" x 12" (228x304mm) •268color photos•144pp. •978-0-7643- 3941-7 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD The Sustainable Landscape: Recycling Materials - Water Conservation Damon Lang. More than 300 color photos detail 10 diverse projects. Each incorporates recycled materials and principles of water efficiency. A valuable resource for homeowners, landscape designers, contractors, and architects, this will help create a personal and ecologically responsible paradise. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215mm) • 370 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-3452-8 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Backyards and Boulevards: A Portfolio of Con- crete Paver Projects David R. Smith & the Inter- locking Concrete Pavement Institute. Paver patterns, colors, and textures enhance the smallest backyard patio to the grandest streets, plazas, and shopping centers. Perfect for architects, landscape architects, contractors, and homeowners. • 81/2"x11" (215x279 mm) • 332 color photos • 192 pp. • 978-0-7643-2007-1 • PB • $29.95 / £27.99 / $42.95 CAD Petscaping: Training and Landscaping with Your Pet in Mind Scott Cohen & Carolyn Doherty. Through 170 images, you’ll be treated to residential landscape designs nationwide that feature “pet friend- ly” zones, including shade and sun areas, a pet shelter, an edible garden, and containment. The designs will inspire your own layout ideas. • 81/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 170 images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3854-0 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD The Rain Garden Planner Terry Wallace. Teaches methods to conserve water by restoring natural pro- cesses for filtering and returning rain to groundwater reservoirs. In addition to detailing the installation and maintenance of rain gardens, this book provides garden plans and plant lists for different conditions and styles, including wildlife habitat, a pretty cottage border rain garden, and a formal garden. • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 142 color photos • 96 pp. • 978-0-7643-3116-9 • HC • $29.99 / £27.99 / $42.99 CAD Regional Landscape Architecture: North- ern California: Rooted in Resilience Jeffrey Head. Fifteen projects chosen for aesthetics, ma- teriality, and environmental sensitivity define what it means to have a regionally appropriate garden in Northern California. Whether small or large, urban or rural, luxurious or low budget, these re- silient outdoor spaces make use of local building materials and craftspeople and offer their owners a unique emotional connection to nature. Complete with plans, they define not so much a style as an experience and thrive with little effort from their owners. • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 120 color and b/w images •160pp. •978-0-7643-5835-7•HC•$34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Regional Landscape Architecture: South- ern California: Mediterranean Modern Jeffrey Head. Fifteen projects chosen for aesthet- ics, materiality, and environmental sensitivity define what it means to have a regionally appro- priate garden in arid Southern California. Complete with plans, they define not so much a style as an experience and thrive with little effort from their owners • 11" x 8 1/2" (279 x 215 mm) • 120 color and b/w images • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-5836-4 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Sacred Gardens Michel & Judy Marcellot. Find the joy expressed within and through gardens. Personal stories show how the simple act of gardening changes lives and individuals. Examples illustrate varied elements of sacred sites and suggest ways readers might create the sacred in their own gardens and attain their own backyard bliss • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 320 color photos • 144 pp. • 978-0-7643-2724-7 • PB • $24.95 / £22.99 / $34.95 CAD Savannah’s Garden Plants Roy Heizer; Nancy Heizer, Photography. For more than 275 years, Savannah has served as a gardener’s paradise. Enjoy original tales and folklore pertaining to the history and science of Savannah’s flowers, plants, and trees, and enjoy more than 160 photographs of flora from the Historic District, squares, the house museum gardens, the Savannah Botanical Garden, Bamboo Farm, and Coastal Gardens • 6"x9" (152 x 228mm) • 163 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-3265- 4 • PB • $9.99 / £9.99 / $13.99 CAD Scott Cohen’s Family Friendly Landscapes: Backyards Built for Fun and Games Scott Cohen. Illustrated with 265 color photos and friendly text, the author provides the guidance you need to help you make the most of your space outdoors, creating the proper landscape for the games you choose to play. Successfully create the ideal setting for ping pong tournaments, imaginative space to inspire kids’ games, or add splash-happy features to your pool • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279 mm) • 265 color photos • 128 pp. • 978-0- 7643-4427-5 • PB • $24.99 / £22.99 / $35.99 CAD Sempervivum: A Gardener’s Perspective of the Not-So-Humble Hens-and-Chicks Kevin C. Vaughn. Sempervivums are wonderful plants for problem places in the garden where other plants won’t grow or would look inappropriate. Gardeners have never had it better, with more than 7,000 cultivars to choose in colors from gold to black and rosettes up to 1?2" in diameter. In this book all aspects of the culture, taxonomy, breeding, and propagation of these plants are covered, together with copious color imagery • 7" x 10" (177 x 254 mm) • 137 color images •208pp. •978-0-7643-5512-7•HC•$34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99CAD Sky Gardens: Rooftops, Balconies, and Terrac- es Signe Nielsen. Great design ideas are combined with practical tips on transforming an outdoor living space into a personal oasis. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of examples, this book guides you through steps toward composing a sky garden, beginning with key principles of design • 8 1/2" x 11" (215 x 279mm) • 326 color photos • 160 pp. • 978-0-7643-2004-0 • HC • $39.95 / £36.99 / $56.95 CAD Private Gardens of the Potomac and Chesapeake Claudia Kousoulas, Foreword by Adrian Higgins. This tour of 15 private gardens by well-known designers illuminates the particular climate and landscape style of the National Capital region. In addition to a plan and plant list, each project includes a description of the owners' goals and the principles behind the design. • 9" x 10" (228 x 254 mm) • 120 color and b/w images • 176 pp. • 978-0-7643-6601-7 • HC • $34.99 / £31.99 / $48.99 CAD Repose in the Metropolis Lisa Zeiger, Foreword by Mitch Owens. This book goes where few have gone before, into fourteen very different gardens belonging to residents of New York City. The work of ten major landscape designers brilliantly balance visual pleasure with ecological sustainability in challenging urban settings. Design historian Lisa Zeiger tells lively stories about the designers and their plants, bringing to their work her eye for his- torical precedent and contemporary aesthetics. • 9" x 10 1/2" () • 130 color and b/w images • 128 pp. • 978-0-7643-6602-4 • HC • $39.99 / £36.99 / $56.99 CAD HARDSCAPE CONTEMPORARY LANDSCAPE & GARDEN DESIGN • Hardscape | 77