Barn: Preservation and Adaptation, The Evolution of a Vernacular Icon
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (698 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847842894 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"beautiful photographs of barns that have been re-imagined as homes, retail or other commercial spaces, mussums and rustic retreats." -Houston Chronicle
. Elric Endersby and Alexander Greenwood are principals of The New Jersey Barn Company and coauthors, along with David Larkin, of Barn: The Art of a Working Building. David Larkin is a book designer, editor, and art director whose work includes The Essential Book of Shaker, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Masterworks, and Frederick Law Olmsted, among other books
Wonderful Approach to Barns as Things to Save, Restore, or Reimagine as Living Spaces I'm not sure if I'm more enthralled by barns or barn books. Both are amazing.If you're interested in either, you surely know that there is a lot of buzz around barns these days: some are interested in preserving them as heritage buildings, others in restoring them to get them working again, others in pulling them down to salvage the barn . "A lovely gift for new farm owners!" according to Christopher. This also was a gift to my clients that purchased a farm house with an old barn. They loved the book.. Five Stars The Gaffer Great illustrations and better than that secured a lot of good ideas
This richly illustrated volume from leading barn historians and preservationists is a celebration of a quintessential American architectural form. Widely revered yet steadily vanishing from our cultural landscape, the barn is an expression of pastoral romance, painstaking craftsmanship, and tradition. Barns embody the ethos of another age, one still to be found in these beautiful buildings. Barn afficionados and enchanting storytellers, the authors demonstrate here a profound love and respect for the form. This revised and updated edition of Barn coincides with the premiere of the PBS series Barnstruck and describes the process of barn preservation through relocation, focusing on the work of The New Jersey Barn Company, whose dedicated efforts over thirty-five years have saved more than 150 structures.. Their book reminds us that barns are as much a part of us as our love of apple pie and should be cheris