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Our Top 10 chart is updated monthly, compiled from sales and clickthroughs by visitors to Sapling.info, the Home Interiors Directory, and the Garden & Landscape Directory.
Last update: November 2008
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Top 10 Chart
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No. 1
Materials for Interior Environments
NEW ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 1
Months on chart: 1
Corky Binggeli
(2007)
Hardcover - 352 pages
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470114282
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
There are thousands of products available for use in interior environments, every one with its assets and disadvantages. The process of selecting the right interior material for the job can be bewildering and - occasionally - perilous. This book is a guide to knowing, evaluating, and selecting materials that will look good, work well, and respect human and environmental needs. Organized by types of materials, and applications, this guide helps designers successfully address material evaluation and selection of interior components. Technical information for each material is presented in a concise reference format to aid designers in their design solutions. Covering all aspects of interior design materials, this book includes: health and safety codes; human factors and material selection; economic criteria; environmental criteria; and, finishes for walls, windows, ceilings, flooring, and millwork and furniture materials. Practical estimating and installation tools, industry standards, testing and code requirements, and written specification guides for each application.
Engagingly written, highly detailed, and helpfully illustrated with more than 250 color and black-and-white illustrations, "Materials for Interior Environments" is a comprehensive guide to everything a designer needs to know about the materials available for interiors - from aesthetic qualities to manufacturing and fabrication, applications, installation and maintenance, and specifications for materials used in commercial and residential applications.
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No. 2
The Gardens of Russell Page
NEW ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 2
Months on chart: 1
Gabrielle Van Zuylen
(2008 - New Edition)
Hardcover - 256 pages
Frances Lincoln Publishers
ISBN: 0711226946
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A new edition, completely redesigned and including new photographs, of the classic account of Russell Page's garden designs. Perhaps the greatest garden designer of the twentieth century, Russell Page (1906-85) was trained as an artist, and brought an architectural sensibility and a keen eye for style to the many vast garden projects that he undertook. With the assistance and co-operation of Page's clients, Schinz and van Zuylen have researched and photographed all of his best work, both early and late, and some now no longer extant. Through his private files and unpublished writing, the man and his work are brought into sharp focus, and over 250 photographs capture the special beauty of his creations in England, America and throughout continental Europe.
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No. 3
Hollywood at Home
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-2-4-1-5-2
Peak position: 1
Months on chart: 13
Paige Rense (Editor)
(2005)
Hardcover - 224 pages
Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
ISBN: 0810959291
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
A variety of writers are featured, such as Gerald Clarke (Cary Grant and Randolph Scott), Nancy Collins (Cher and Diane Keaton), and Donald Spoto (Marilyn Monroe). The superb images were by a range of photographers as well, including Architectural Digest regulars Tim Street-Porter, Durston Saylor, and Mary E. Nichols. The following homes are featured in the book - Orson Welles, John Wayne, Jack Warner, John Travolta/Kelly Preston, Jimmy Stewart, Steven Spielberg, Frank Sinatra, Martin Scorsese, Dennis Quaid, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Diane Keaton, Danny Kaye, Angelica Huston/John Huston, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Cary Grant/Randolph Scott, Greta Garbo, Judy Garland, Clark Gable/Carole Lombard, Cecile B. de Mille, George Cukor, Cher, Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall and Ronald Reagan.
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No. 4
Around The World In 80 Gardens
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-9-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 4
Months on chart: 2
Monty Don
(2008)
Hardcover - 288 pages
Weidenfeld & Nicolson General
ISBN: 0297844504
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
'If I have learned only one thing from my travels around the world it is that no garden is an island. Context is everything.' Monty Don visits each continent in this landmark series on gardens of the world. We are introduced to the unique floating gardens of the Amazon and the colourful alpine flower meadows of Norway, modest domestic gardens in Havana and Bali, Monet's world-famous Giverny and the Dutch tour-de-force Het Loo, the formal magnificence of Renaissance Italian water gardens, the tropical planting traditions of Thailand, and the intriguing fusion of indigenous and colonial garden cultures in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Each garden is placed in context, horticultural preconceptions are abandoned and Monty is constantly surprised by the unexpected locations where gardens thrive. A vivid account of travel, adventure, beauty and the pursuit of knowledge.
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No. 5
Vintage French Interiors: Inspiration from the Antique Shops and Flea Markets of France
DOWN 4
Sapling chart trend: 1-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 1
Months on chart: 2
Sebastien Siraudeau
(2008)
Hardcover - 208 pages
Flammarion
ISBN: 2080300547
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
French design is rich in the exceptional details that make a home unique. Drawing inspiration from the most creative antique shops found throughout France, this book is a treasure-trove of ideas for incorporating that inimitable French style into any interior. This book features objects found in all regions of France from the celebrated flea markets of Paris to the charming antique shops of Provence and provides a visually stunning catalog of ideas that capture the spirit of vintage French style. From the quirky charm of a mismatched tea service to the graphic simplicity of wooden printers typefaces; from the bright charm of Provincial print fabrics to the faded glamour of distressed gilding, the many enticing facets of timeless French style are on display.
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No. 6
The Buildings of England - Northumberland
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 6
Months on chart: 2
Nikolaus Pevsner, Sir Ian Richmond, John Grundy, et al
(2002)
Hardcover - 704 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300096380
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the most elegant nineteenth-century city centre in England. Elsewhere the distinctive smaller towns include Alnwick, dominated by its castle, Hexham with its priory, brick-built Morpeth, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, ringed with exceptional sixteenth-century fortifications. Great country houses range from Vanbrugh's theatrical Seaton Delaval to Sir Charles Monck's austere Belsay and Norman Shaw's romantic Cragside. Monuments of a great industrial past, as well as a wealth of smaller buildings, such as bastle houses (peelhouses or stronghouses unique to the Border country), are all vividly described in this revised guide to Northumberland's architectural pleasures.
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No. 7
Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens
DOWN 2
Sapling chart trend: 5-10-3-X-X-X
Peak position: 3
Months on chart: 4
(2007)
Hardcover - 384 pages
Frances Lincoln Publishers
ISBN: 0711225354
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This book is a biography of Winston Churchill through the houses he lived in and the gardens he made. It culminates with the full story of his purchase, alteration and creation of Chartwell, Kent, where he lived for more than forty years before and after the war, and which is now owned and run by the National Trust in keeping with his intentions. Churchill was born amidst the splendour of Blenheim Palace but, ever a restless spirit, he owned or rented many houses, both grand and relatively modest, over the course of his long life, including country retreats, modern town apartments and, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Admiralty House. But it was his house at Chartwell that would be for ever associated with the name Churchill. Based on extensive and scholarly archive study, this unique book brings to light an array of previously unpublished details and reveals a fascinating side to Britain's greatest war leader. Winston Churchill was named the Greatest Briton of all time in a BBC poll that attracted nearly a million votes. He remains a hugely popular figure. This is the first book on Churchill to focus on this relatively private aspect of his character. It contains material from the Churchill archives, including reproductions of his paintings.
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No. 8
Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture, and Planning
DOWN 2
Sapling chart trend: 6-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 6
Months on chart: 2
Daniel E. Williams
(2007)
Hardcover - 304 pages
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471709530
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
In this book, Daniel Williams challenges professionals to rethink architecture and to see their projects not as objects but as critical, connected pieces of the whole, essential to human health as well as to regional economy and ecology. Comprehensive in scope, "Sustainable Design" answers key questions such as: How do I begin thinking and designing ecologically? What is the difference between 'green design' and 'sustainable design'? What are some examples of effective change I can make that will have the most impact for the least cost? Written for architects, planners, landscape architects, engineers, public officials, and change agent professionals, this important resource defines the issues of sustainable design, illustrates conceptual and case studies, and provides support for continued learning in this increasingly central focus of architects' and urban planners' work. Williams' book features winning projects from the first decade of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE) Top Ten award program.
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No. 9
On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries
NEW ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 9
Months on chart: 1
Richard Reynolds
(2008)
Hardcover - 256 pages
Bloomsbury
ISBN: 0747590818
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
When Richard Reynolds began planting flowers secretly at night outside his tower block in South London, he had no idea that he was part of a growing global movement committed to combating the forces of neglect, land shortage and apathy towards public spaces. But before long, his blog had attracted other guerrillas from around the world to share their experiences of the horticultural frontline, and is now a focal point for guerrilla gardeners everywhere, with over 4,000 people enlisted as recruits. "On Guerrilla Gardening" is Reynolds' lively, colourful treatise on why people illicitly cultivate land and how to do it yourself. From discreetly beautifying corners of Montreal to striving for green communal space in Berlin and sustainable food production in San Francisco, from Christmas trees on London roundabouts to the political agitations of landless workers in Brazil, Reynolds charts a battle that people worldwide are fighting on many different fronts. Along the way he unearths the movement's notable historic advances by seventeenth-century English radicals, a nineteenth-century American entrepreneur and public-spirited artists in 1970s New York.
Reynolds has researched the subject with guerrilla gardeners from thirty different countries, and compiles their advice on what to grow where, how to cope with adverse environmental conditions, how to seed-bomb effectively, how to harness propaganda to win support and even how to handle anti-terror police. "On Guerrilla Gardening" informs, entertains and inspires. Packed with photographs, anecdotes and sound horticultural advice, it is an irresistible invitation to shoulder your shovel and join the revolution that is blooming in the world's shared spaces.
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No. 10
Concrete Architecture
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 8
Months on chart: 2
Catherine Croft
(2005)
Hardcover - 240 pages
Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 1856693643
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
After a long period of being synonymous with urban deprivation and dreary stained surfaces, concrete is is now chic. A favourite material of fashionable style magazines, it is becoming ubiquitous in shops, restaurants and even homes. Concrete is in fact a fabulous material, which can be used in a huge range of techniques and situations. Its colour, texture, and constituents vary, it may be cheaply mass produced, or meticulously crafted, and new developments and increased understanding of its possibilities are inspiring contemporary architects and designers. Concrete Architecture begins by asking questions like: What is concrete? What is its history? How is concrete used? The book goes on to look at recent architectural projects that use concrete for an enormous range of building types. All the examples chosen celebrate the intrinsic qualities of concrete and how they work to make the places in which we live, work, and play. A range of projects from around the world includes for example a private house in the Netherlands by UN Studio and Canary Wharf Underground Station in London by Foster and Partners.
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