Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #606991 in Books
• Published on: 1973
• Original language: German, English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 95 pages

Customer Reviews

A visual smorgasbord from a time somehow forgotten
I bought this book about 9 years ago in a Wellington second hand bookshop and have been in love with the images contained within ever since.
It provides an inspiration to me of the handmade house as a place of unlimited creative expression and a melding of the function and form of shelter into whatever it's creator is capable of imagining.
Savour the images and let them seep into your subcouncious...who knows what journey they may set you upon.

great for inspiration and wonderful conversation piece
I found this book several years ago at a library sale and all my friends enjoy the pictures of rustic cabins. It is certainly a picture book and not a how-to book but it has sparked many grand thoughts and converstations over the years. It's worth many a good slow look.

Truly a pleasure: folk art and 1960s/70s documentary
There is something warm and peaceful about this book. It is a transporter, ready to take you back to Northern California or Oregon of the 1970s. It is folk art and naked children--a time before Martha Stewart. It is an architecture of freedom and spontaneity, earthiness, and autonomy. Here people have put together woody structures of the mind and captured in form the feeling that I remember so well from my Northern California childhood in the 70s.

The book is just photos--no building instructions, no pretense to being authoritative or comprehensive; art homes which caught the authors' eyes.