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In the past decade, as our material existence and environmental footprint has grown exponentially, architects around the globe have become particularly interested in the possibilities of the minimal, low-impact, and isolated abode. This title explores how this particular architectural type presents special opportunities for creative thinking.
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Initially created by a group of friends as an online scrapbook, Cabin Porn became an international sensation following the publication of the first volume of photographs of hand-made homes in breath-taking natural landscapes around the world.
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Rural escapes for those yearning for a simpler existence, by the creators of the wildly popular Tumblr Cabin Porn. Created by a group of friends who preserve 55 acres of hidden forest in Upstate New York-Cabin Porn began as a scrapbook to collect inspiration for their building projects. As the collection grew, the site attracted a following, which is now a huge and obsessive audience. The site features photos of the most remarkable handmade homes in the backcountry of America and all over the world. It has had over 10 million unique visitors, with 350,000 followers on Tumblr. Now Zach Klein, the creator of the site (and a co-founder of Vimeo) goes further into the most alluring images from the site and new getaways, including more interior photography and how-to advice for setting up a quiet place somewhere. With their idyllic settings, unique architecture and cozy interiors, the Cabin Porn photographs, are an invitation to slow down, take a deep breath, and feel the beauty and serenity that nature and simple construction can create.
Log cabins --- Vacation homes --- Cottages --- Small houses --- Tree houses
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This is one of those rare books that rates as a genuine discovery. About 3 years ago Mike Hinden and Betsy Draine mentioned that they were thinking of writing a travel memoir about their summers in their house in southern France. Though neither had attempted this kind of book before I encouraged them to try it, and we discussed various approaches. Last fall the first draft of the memoir materialized, and exceeded any vague expectations I had. The tone was assured, the narrative compelling, and the intangible quality of the best travel books--romantic but never schmaltzy, purely personal but also observant enough to capture the feel of a place--was already obvious. I suggested ways in which the memoir could be strengthened and three months later a very polished revised draft came in. The two outside reviews confirm my feelings. This is a a natural travel memoir that should attract the audience that has made "Under A Tuscan Sun" and Peter Mayle's books so popular, because it does what those books do: it feeds into our vicarious dreams of living in a parallel, more perfect universe, and it helps recreate another world. As an addtion to our already strong autobiography list, and as a strong foundation to our growing list in food and travel books, this joint memoir also makes eminent sense.
Vacation homes --- Baches --- Cabins --- Cottages, Summer --- Cribs (Vacation homes) --- Holiday houses --- Recreation homes --- Summer homes --- Vacation houses --- Dwellings --- Draine, Betsy, --- Homes and haunts --- Dordogne (France) --- Département de la Dordogne (France) --- Dordonha (France) --- Périgord (France) --- Social life and customs.
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Vacation cabins are ubiquitous in Norway, with roughly half the population using them on a regular basis. Through analysis of literary representations of cabins, this book demonstrates that while one tends to think of cabin culture as essentially unchanging over a long span of time, it has in fact changed dramatically over the past two centuries, and that it is an extremely rich and complex cultural phenomenon deeply imbedded in the construction of national identity.
Norwegian literature --- Literature and society --- Vacation homes --- Cottages --- Architecture, Rural --- Rural architecture --- Dwellings --- Small houses --- Baches --- Cabins --- Cottages, Summer --- Cribs (Vacation homes) --- Holiday houses --- Recreation homes --- Summer homes --- Vacation houses --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- Cottages. --- Ferienhaus. --- Hütte. --- Literatur. --- Literature and society. --- Norwegian literature. --- Norwegisch. --- Vacation homes. --- Norway.
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As Julia Harrison's first summer living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. While friends and family talked of nothing but languid afternoons on the dock and bartered for as many lakeside days as possible, Harrison marveled at the less attractive components of cottage life: the clogged highways en route and the unrelenting investment of money and labour that the idyllic escapes demanded. Curious about the rich and passionate meaning these places seemed to hold, Harrison studied cottagers in the Haliburton region over the course of seven years. Thoughtfully and engagingly written, A Timeless Place considers the cottage family as a place where memories are treasured, national identity is celebrated, spiritual balance is restored, and even a few dark secrets are kept.
Vacation homes --- Country life --- Haliburton Region (Ont.) --- Social life and customs.
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Löfgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of "learning to be a tourist" have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed) teaching the tourist what to look for and how to experience it. Travelers present and future will never see their cruises, treks, ecotours, round-the-world journeys, or trips to the vacation cottage or condo in quite the same way again. All our land-, sea-, and mindscapes will be the richer for Löfgren's insights.
Travel. --- Holidays. --- Legal holidays --- National holidays --- Days --- Hours of labor --- Manners and customs --- Memorials --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Vacations --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Historia Económica del Turismo (64101211) --- Bibliografía recomendada --- business. --- contemporary tourism. --- contemporary world. --- cottage. --- cruise industry. --- cruise. --- destinations. --- economics. --- ecotour. --- fashion. --- holidays. --- photography. --- pop culture. --- tourism. --- tourist. --- travel industry. --- travel. --- travelers. --- trek. --- vacation home. --- vacation industry. --- vacation property. --- vacation rental. --- vacation. --- vacationing. --- western world.
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Lakeside architecture --- Vacation homes --- Wright, Frank Lloyd, --- Jones, Fred B., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Homes and haunts --- Penwern (Wis.)
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