 | Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy new: $122.85 / Used from: $94.38 Always best to start with "the future now".
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 | The New Garden Paradise: Great Private Gardens of the World by Dominique Browning
Buy new: $67.50 / Used from: $36.95 Should there be a difference between a private garden and a pirate garden?
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 | Matisse: From Color to Architecture by Rene Percheron
Buy new: $82.97 / Used from: $73.00 Still way ahead of the curve.
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 | Gaudi: Complete Works (Evergreen Series) (English, German and French Edition) by Isabel Artigas
Buy used from: $76.32 Knew to play with curves.
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 | The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy used from: $125.00 Isn't fun to see what the play group is up to?
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 | Le Corbusier Le Grand by Editors of Phaidon
Buy new: $126.00 / Used from: $201.97 Time is on his side.
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 | Frank Lloyd Wright The Houses by Alan Hess
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $29.95 There is no place like these homes.
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 | The Art of the Japanese Garden by David Young
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $18.65 The journey must begin outside the box.
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 | The Modern Japanese Garden by Michiko Rico Nose
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $24.39 The journey continues...
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 | Great Gardens of the World: In Search of Paradise by Penelope Hobhouse
Buy new: $29.70 / Used from: $19.23 "Paradise Now!"
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 | Gardens in Time by Jacques Bosser
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $20.91 How to dam the time stream.
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 | On Garden Style by Bunny Williams
Buy used from: $25.06 So many choices.
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 | Robert Irwin Getty Garden by Lawrence Weschler
Buy used from: $29.00 Some exceptional choices.
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 | The Gardens of Russell Page by Marina Schinz
Buy new: $44.81 / Used from: $37.85 Not seen this but looks choice.
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 | Florence: The City and Its Architecture by Richard Goy
Buy new: $50.62 / Used from: $35.80 All that great art had to come from some place.
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 | The Garden at Bomarzo: A Renaissance Riddle by Jessie Sheeler
Buy new: $33.71 / Used from: $15.69 Without mystery where would we be...
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 | Orangeries (Evergreens) by Michel Saudan
Buy used from: $71.13 What a concept!
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 | From Folly to Follies (Evergreens) by Michel Saudan
Buy used from: $15.12 The title says it all.
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 | Follies of Europe: Architectural Extravaganzas by Nic Barlow
Buy new: $50.62 / Used from: $41.99 The architectural equivalent of Japanese gardens.
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 | Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $41.95 Layout, layout, layout!
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 | Elephant House: Or, The Home of Edward Gorey
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $17.70 The concept of ballast versus flotsam and jetsam.
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 | Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens: A Life in Pictures by Eva Marie Beale
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $61.00 Beyond folly lies a whole new world of gardening.
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 | Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams (Piero Fornasetti) by Patrick Mauries
Buy new: $39.95 / Used from: $30.33 I would have also included Fellini's "The Book of Dreams if I had more closet space.
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 | Best of Flair by Fleur Cowles
Buy used from: $75.00 Without flair what use is folly!
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 | Christian Berard by Boris Kochno
Buy used from: $59.95 Flair, flair and more flair.
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 | Tony Duquette by Wendy Goodman
Buy new: $47.25 / Used from: $38.14 We finally alight on the west coast.
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 | Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstatte
Buy used from: $276.45 Wish I could have included more on Joseph Hoffman and friends.
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 | Carlo Scarpa: Architecture and Design
Buy used from: $48.25 The routes and roots of refinement.
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 | The Venetian City Garden: Place, Typology, and Perception by John Dixon Hunt
Buy new: $89.44 / Used from: $82.09 Though I wished to put something in about Paris this place ultimately takes the cake (and we are talking Magnolia or Sweet Lady Jane.)
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 | Rudolph Schindler by David Gebhard
Buy used from: $37.50 I have never seen room place with perception as much as in one of his houses.
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 | Sir John Soane's Museum, London by Tim Knox
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $39.29 One of my favorite places in the world- still way ahead of anything in terms of imagination fusing with elegance.
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 | Frederick Fisher Buildings and Projects by Rizzoli
Buy used from: $3.71 Miss my house...
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 | Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered by Julius Shulman
Buy new: $216.00 / Used from: $202.47 I wouldn't want to live in a modernist interior, but the shells are worth collecting and they are lovely places to visit.
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 | Los Angeles: Deluxe
Buy used from: $42.24 Folly, folly, folly...
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 | Ruins by Michel Makarius
Buy new: $75.00 / Used from: $28.00 Everything has to go sometime.
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 | Private Gardens of the Fashion World by Francis Dorleans
Buy used from: $28.50 These boys and girls know how to party- had I room Givenchy style and a book on Valentino would follow.
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| Gardens, Labyrinths, Paradise by Enrico Rainero
Buy used from: $41.45 The topology of paradise as paradox.
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 | Labyrinths & Mazes: A Complete Guide to Magical Paths of the World by Jeff Saward
Buy used from: $19.53 Paradox as paradox.
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| Mirrors by Rizzoli
Buy used from: $19.99 Sometimes we don't give metaphysical machinery its proper due
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 | The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $8.26 Sometime we do give metaphysical machinery its proper due. In my universe there should be no distinction between philosopher and party planner.
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