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|  | Gauguin by Britt Salvesen, Douglas W. Druick, Peter Zegers
Description not available.The eye-popping painting of Paul Gauguin finds a beautiful home in the pages of this lovingly assembled collection of his best work published to coincide with a major exhibition in Amsterdam. AUTHOR: Britt Salvesen, Douglas W. Druick, Peter Zegers
PUBLISHER: Abrams, Harry N. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Simple Fountains for Indoors & Outdoors by Dorcas Adkins
Those elegant but costly self-contained fountains found in upscale catalogs are easy and inexpensive to make at home with the step-by-step instructions found in this book. A professional fountain designer and manufacturer, Dorcas Adkins reveals her techniques in 20 creative projects, ranging from small tabletop fountains to larger outdoor garden fountains. Appropriate for crafters of all skill levels, these projects include such classics as: -- Small Tabletop Tsukubai -- Shishi Odoshi (or Japanese Deer-Scare) -- Cedar Water Garden with Bamboo Flute -- Half-Barrel with Spouting Sculpture -- Splashing Ceramic Lotus Fountain -- Birdshower Fountain Each project contains a thorough list of readily available materials, step-by-step instructions and illustrations, and a full-color photograph of the finished fountain. Instructions for maintaining and repairing fountains and incorporating plants and animals are also included. For those who prefer to make their own fountain parts, special techniques sections explain casting plaster, soldering copper, modeling and firing clay, and more. AUTHOR: Dorcas Adkins
PUBLISHER: Storey Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Painting & Decorating Furniture by Sheila McGraw
Painting and Decorating Furniture shows how to breathe new life and color into your old wood, metal or plastic laminate cabinets, desks, dressers, tables chairs and cushions. If you have never put paint brush to furniture, don`t worry. The author has tailored projects to all skill levels and guides you through basic painting, staining, varnishing and stripping techniques. With this book as a guide, even the most artistically challenged will achieve stunning results. Materials include the latest in durable, safe, easy-clean-up, water-based paints and finishes. All steps are simply explained and accompanied by clear photographs. Projects combine popular treatments such as sponging, dragging and smooshing with block printing, metallic leafing, crackled varnish, antiquing, decoupage and other fine art and furniture finishes. Simplified demonstrations let you beautify furniture with freehand, decorative and folk painting. Stenciling and other projects include patterns. The adventurous will find treatments featuring mosaic, tile and some delightful surprises. AUTHOR: Sheila McGraw
PUBLISHER: Firefly Books, Limited
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Decorating 1-2-3
Description not available.From the experts at America's leading home center comes an array of stylish decorating projects for the home in a home design resource that includes more than one hundred separate projects, more than one thousand full-color photographs, and hundreds of helpful decorating tips. 225,000 first printing.
PUBLISHER: Meredith Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | 1 to 10 & Back Again by J. Paul Getty Museum Staff
A counting book based on French furniture from the Getty Museum. AUTHOR: J. Paul Getty Museum Staff
PUBLISHER: Getty Publications
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Glass by William S. Ellis
In prose as crystalline as his subject, the author celebrates the versatility and functionality of glass, and explains how a substance known to all but understood by few has been shaped and molded to serve mankind in innumerable ways. Readers will learn how glass has both shaped and been shaped by man's changing relationship to the environment; how it has brought vision to the sight-deprived and to humans beings huddling in the dark; and how glass enters the 21st century yielding an almost unlimited horizon of possiblities. With grace, charm and authority, GLASS delves into history, invention, manufacturing, fine art, and the myriad faces and forms of this protean substance. Whether visiting the flamboyant glass artist Dale Chihuly, dissecting the creation of a twenty-ton telescopic mirror, sampling the history of Tiffany's magnificent lamps, or watching the design and construction of the greenhouses of Kew Gardens, this book treats its readers to a multifaceted vision of a material eternally destiend to die a violent death, and to be constantly reborn in a relentlessly changing world. AUTHOR: William S. Ellis
PUBLISHER: Morrow/Avon
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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