Customer Reviews:
Concrete Countertops.......2007-05-28
This is one great book! Very informative. My husband is now in the process of changing our old countertops to new "concrete"ones. I can't wait to see them done and installed.
GOOD STARTING PLACE FOR A BEGINNER.......2007-04-05
Thank you for this book. I am an absolute beginner and I have done two countertops that have come out pretty good for my friends just by following the instructions in this book. It is a good book to start you on the correct path but you need to do some added research on the net to get additional info especially when you live in a third world country and all the materials are not readily available. Good book...you can buy it.
Great intro to concrete design.......2007-02-13
This book offers a great introduction to the flexiblity of using concrete in a home - for floors, kithens, walls, etc - and provides beautiful photographs of examples concrete use in contemporary homes.
Alan Safani
Concrete countertop book.......2007-01-04
We used this book along with Cheng's other book (Concrete at Home), his DVD, and his concrete product line to make our own concrete countertops. We had never worked with concrete before, and the countertops came out great. This book focuses mainly on making molds in your backyard or garage, pouring the concrete, and then flipping the molds so that you start with a smooth surface. We adapted Cheng's product line and poured our countertops in place so we had no seams. I recommend getting the DVD along with this book because they are both helpful and packed with good information. If you want to pour in place, his other book (Concrete at Home) is really helpful.
Informative but not comprehensive.......2006-07-30
I had the idea that I would make my own very customized concrete countertops, but after reading the book I decided on granite instead.
The book has a stylish and modern look, with beautiful illustrations, though not as many photos of actual countertops as one might think. It contains a fairly detailed description of how to make a countertop using the inverted mold method with sections on making the mold, concrete mixes and additives, surface finishes and sealants. The cast-in-place method is mentioned briefly.
The process is not inexpensive and is extremely labor intensive. When you are done you have a countertop that is high maintenance and subject to scratching and staining. Concrete is intriguing because of the design flexibility it offers, but the material looks more suited to bar tops or other area that are not working surfaces. This book gave me the information to make an informed choice and ultimately saved me a lot of work.
Book Description
The natural world has been a muse for artists throughout the ages, and jewelry designers have always shared that inspiration, their fascination with flora and fauna coming through in their work. Now, Jeweled Garden traces the evolution of garden-inspired jewelry from the 19th century to the present day in beautiful photographs and an absorbing text.
From Louis Comfort Tiffany's delicate realist creations of the Victorian Age to Cartier's 2006 Caresse d'orchides necklace encrusted with precious stones, the tradition's most beautiful pieces by master jewelers are represented. Featuring pieces from turn-of-the-last-century Art Nouveau, 1920s Art Deco, 1950s and 60s jet-set, and 1970s individualism, from Fabergé, Lalique, Tiffany, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Bulgari, and even from fashion houses such as Chanel and Christian Dior, this gorgeous volume will delight jewelry aficionados and gardening enthusiasts alike.
Customer Reviews:
A visual ravishment!.......2007-08-09
A superb book! A visual ravishment!
The book is well researched and wide ranging in its study of flora based jewellery!
Focusing not only on the great jewellery houses but also on historical pieces, it makes for interesting reading for anyone who appreciate fine workmanship but also the history of jewels!
Great Jewelry Books.......2007-05-31
A "Must-have" for jewelry collectors, designers ..... Excellent pictures!!!! Great details!!! With lots of great masterpieces! 100% +++++ satisfaction in owning it!!!
Book Description
-Machine embroidery is an extremely popular segment of today's sew/quilt market
-Capitalizes on top-selling author Donna Dewberry's loyal following of fans, and ability to transfer her popular floral designs to wardrobe accents
-Great value: At $22.99 the CD-ROM and book is a steal -- most embroidery design CDs alone cost $20 to $80
The charming English garden style made famous by Donna Dewberry comes alive in new design motifs for machine embroidery projects. This one- of-a-kind resource teaches readers to easily add elements of Dewberry's tremendously popular garden motifs to any outfit, bath or kitchen accessory, or gift basket using machine embroidery.
Inside this inspiring guide, readers:
-Discover easy-to-understand instructions, tips and techniques to help machine embroiderers embellish and coordinate clothing, gifts and home decor
-Gather quick tips and techniques from the book and ideas from a design-packed CD-ROM to complete 20 featured projects
-Transform wedding and baby shower gift baskets into elaborately decorated art by adding decoratively stitched pieces
Perfect for beginning machine embroidery enthusiasts and a great inspiration for veteran embroiderers.
Customer Reviews:
Highly recommended.......2007-10-10
I love this book and have truly enjoyed using the embroidery designs. They sew up beautifully and will be a wonderful addition to my embroidery library.
Donna's Machine Emb Flowers.......2007-05-13
I was well pleased with not only the content of the book, the shape the book was in when received. I see great potential for utilization of these designs. Would recommend to any machine embroiderer that this type design appeals too.
Lovely Book.......2007-01-04
This is a lovely book both for the beginner as well as the experienced machine embroiderer. It is not a large book, but nevertheless is chock full of information. There are great ideas for using the embroideries on the enclosed cd, as well as providing inspiration for substituting one's own favorite designs. I used the "Pansies" design in creating an envelope pillow for a friend, coordinating the thread colors with the pansy tapestry fabric used in the pillow body. It turned out absolutely beautiful - the design stitched out gorgeous - much nicer even than the illustration in the book. I would recommend this book to anyone.
Donna Dewberry's Machine Embroidery Flowers.......2006-11-10
Very nice book. Beautiful designs on CD. Very good value for the money.
The Best of Donna.......2006-09-15
This little book is packed with designs and ideas for machine embroidery all done with the tasteful art of Donna Dewberry.
From her signature Rose design to her butterflies, the designs(on the CD-Rom) stitch beautifully. Hardly any jump stitches.
The results are like looking at Donna's paintings.
Beautifully illustrated and with information about machine embroidery, this book is well worth it!!
Book Description
An interior designer's best work is often measured by abstract standards. The designer's talent and skill can dazzle the eyes and win clients, but creative ability is not enough to ensure long-term success. The less glamorous side of interior design is one of negotiations, contracts, and finances. A designer ill-prepared to cope with the inevitable business and legal complications ultimately loses time and money, but now help is on the way. Attorney Tad Crawford and design business professional Eva Doman Bruck have teamed to provide interior designers with Business and Legal Forms for Interior Designers, a powerful new resource for building the the foundation for a successful design business.
Customer Reviews:
Great Book Received in a Timely Manner.......2007-03-31
I received this book in a reasonable amount of time and in the condition promised. Thanks!
EXTREMELY NECESSARY.......2007-01-09
THIS BOOK IS NECESSARY FOR ALL INTERIOR DESIGNERS, JUST ABOUT EVERY FORM NECESSARY TO START AND RUN A BUSINESS IS IN THIS BOOK. THIS BOOK SHOULD SHOULD ALSO BE USED FOR INTERIOR DESIGN BUSINESS PRACTICES COURSES
Business Forms for Interior Designers.......2007-01-05
Book was a help to understand what forms would be useful for an owner of an interior design business. the book contained information on how the form is used, an example of the form. a cd was included that contained all forms covered in the book. this was most useful. To be honest, the forms were very basic and did not take advantage of color printers or fancy fonts. I used the forms I needed as a model to create a better versions in microsoft excel. If you are looking for basic forms to provide your clients and vendors, this book contains all that you need. If you need something alittle fancier, and are good with your computer, model your own from what is provided. I would still rate this book as a good buy.
Good forms.......2005-08-29
This book is really helpful. I love the forms and that they are all on CD in variable formats. Great place to start from!
Book Description
Stone, brick, tile, or metal? See how many ways there are to envision and create this enduringly popular interior feature. A warm and charming addition to our $12.98 series of illustrated books on style and design, Fireplace Styles is a celebration of the hearth at home, from primitive to contemporary. Generously illustrated with full-color photographs, it makes a lovely gift book, and is sure to be of interest to the increasing number of homeowners looking for inspiration in creating or enhancing a fireplace for virtually any room of the house.
Customer Reviews:
Below Average.......2007-07-21
I've ordered a few books on fireplaces recently because I'm building a home. And this book just doesn't display the knowledge or variety of pictures that other books do. While this book makes claim to styles from "Early, French Classical, Georgian, American Colonial, Victorian, Modernist and Contemporary," they are barely reflected in some of the photos. I expected, not better photo quality pictures (aesthetics), but a better selection of pictures (aesthetics). Form, Function, and Design? Not well depicted
History book.......2006-02-03
This book presents very interesting historical information on the development of fireplace styles over the centuries, and the photographs included were inspiring! (If a photo had been provided for every fireplace described in detail in the text, I would have given 5 stars!) Keep in mind this book's emphasis is on the history rather than the 'how to' of fireplaces.
Very few pictures, very few ideas.......2005-05-27
This book is not worth your money. Fortunetely, I got it used. There are no good ideas and good pictures here. Don't buy it.
Book Description
Attractive selection of illustrations, reprinted from rare late-19th-century German collection of designs for surface decoration, textiles, other uses. Includes 124 stylized representations of lush blossoms, tropical fruits and graceful foliage. Inspirational, royalty-free, low-cost sourcebook for artists and craftworkers.
Customer Reviews:
Not much to look at.......2007-09-13
I found that that designd in the book were all very similiar and not much in the way of sparking any creativity. Don't bother with this one since there are much better ones out there. Go with "4000 Flower and Plant Motifs"
Useful if..........2007-07-24
This book has a lot of designs of more or less the same style (like that you see on the cover.) If you're into leather tooling, embroidery, or rugmaking, you might like this book, as that's what these images remind me of. The book does mention that they're all from the same antique source, so while there are a lot of very nice designs, there isn't a lot of variety. If the style of the images on the book's cover don't appeal to you, then I wouldn't recommend buying this book, because that's the one and only style of image this book contains.
Just as I thought it would be..........2007-05-11
I am a freelance artist and was looking for a good source of stylized florals/paisleys for some drawings that I wanted to do...this book fits the bill perfectly! The designs are full of detail and the book carries enough variety to supply my needs for a very long time.
With the added use of my own imagination, I can see myself happily referring to it for when ever my needs cross over into this type of theme. The only way to make it better would be to make it hold even more than it already does...
Well done!
Dover does it again.......2006-11-05
Another excellent book from Dover. Unlike many design books, this book has many variations on stylized flower designs.
Interesting starting point for floral graphics.......2001-07-31
The graphics are crisp and very reproduceable. The majority of the flowers are a little dated, but easily altered. There is a wide variety of different motiffs from traditional colonial to Indian in orientation.
Customer Reviews:
Fast and Fun.......2003-11-10
I made each of these blocks in one evening and then put them in a quilt, alternating solid blocks and adding sashing. It was quick and fun to see each critter come together like magic. The instructions were clear and easy to follow, although you have to be careful and sew precisely.
bring the forest alive.......2000-05-29
I loved this book not only for the excellent directions and nice pictures but it gave me an instant craving to start working on a quilt with the simple "puzzle method" patterns. My quilt is finished and looks great.
Book Description
This is the second comprehensive wood carving manual by the successful team of Roz Daisey and Pat Kurman. Through a detailed yet concise series of carving and painting instructions, beautifully drawn illustrations and careful photography, novice as well as expert carvers are given all the information they need to complete realistic wood carvings of five different songbirds. The instructions for creating wooden replicas of the male and female Northern Cardinal, House Sparrow, Blue Jay, and American Robin provide five home seminars at your fingertips. Roz and Pat are experienced carvers and teachers who have developed systems that work for everybody every time. Their own carving achievements, abilities to illustrate and communicate, and their devotion to the bird carving art forms they create all combine here to inspire a new generation of wildfowl artist. , 276 color, 664 b/w photos/83 drawings, 8 1/2" x 11", Glossary
Customer Reviews:
I love this book!.......2007-05-15
It just arrived in the mail and I can hardly wait to carve another bird. This book gives the carver just what he needs--patterns from the front and side plus top and bottom views! Lots of black and white photos, but then you get color photos just when you need them--which is when you begin to paint the bird. Plus, I really like the way the birds look. If I can't produce a fine looking bird from this book it will not be from lack of direction. This beats just about any other bird carving book I have, and believe me I have bought a lot of them!
Songbird Carving .......2006-02-20
Rosalyn Daisey's book is a suberb example of how to author a "how to" book. It's top notch in patterns, instructions, and illistrations. You can't go wrong with any of her books. I'm impressed enough to own them all.
Rosalyn Diasey can help even a novice painter look great!.......2001-11-19
My husband, Ron, is an excellent carver and has been doing songbirds for about ten years. He brings life to his carvings by burning the feathers in with such detail nearly everyone reaches out to "pet" his birds. This past year he decided to go beyond the "natural" look and asked me to paint a robin so that the gift to our grandson would be from both of us.
I had only worked with watercolors previously and so, having had no experience with acrylic painting, I was still able to follow the instructions in this wonderful book and came out with a robin that looked very real. In fact, when painting one day, I had to answer the door and the guest flinched, thinking I was holding a real robin. Now if I can only come up with her instructions for painting a blue bird and/or a blue herron I would be grateful beyond words.
Rosalyn Diasey can help even a novice painter look great!.......2001-11-19
My husband, Ron, is an excellent carver and has been doing songbirds for about ten years. He brings life to his carvings by burning the feathers in with such detail nearly everyone reaches out to "pet" his birds. This past year he decided to go beyond the "natural" look and asked me to paint a robin so that the gift to our grandson would be from both of us.
I had only worked with watercolors previously and so, having had no experience with acrylic painting, I was still able to follow the instructions in this wonderful book and came out with a robin that looked very real. In fact, when painting one day, I had to answer the door and the guest flinched, thinking I was holding a real robin. Now if I can only come up with her instructions for painting a blue bird and/or a blue herron I would be grateful beyond words.
Excellent step by step guide for woodcarvers.......1999-04-27
Excellent step by step guide for both beginning and advanced woodcarvers. Provides detailed patterns and instructions for five different common songbirds.
Book Description
Originally intended as reference for his work as architect, sculptor and teacher, Blossfeldt's exquisite sharp-focus photo studies of plant form — leaves, buds, stems, seed pods, tendrils and twigs — won acclaim with publication of the 1928 edition of this book. 120 full-page black-and-white plates. Original introduction. Publisher's note. Captions.
Customer Reviews:
bad reproductions.......2007-05-05
the reproductions are low contrast and not very nice -- i'd rather have photocopies! will look for a better copy...
Photos were not the quality I thought they'd be........2006-03-11
I was expecting crispy photos of professional quality with good levels of contrast to define edges, variation, etc. of the forms photographed. Instead most of the photos were somewhat blurry and of low-contrast, mostly grays, leaving depth to be inferred and not readable. I admit that I'm disappointed.
An inspirational "must have" for metalsmiths and artists!.......2000-04-01
Karl Blossfeldt's imagery conjures up strange imaginary worlds. An absolute must have for artists searching out unusual organic forms as inspiration. Straight forward full frame B and W shots make photo copying or scanning a breeze. Gaudi, and Ernst along with the Brothers Quay come to mind.
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Book Description
Detailed and ready-to-color drawings of 47 species: rhinoceros, snow leopard, giraffe, reindeer, gorilla, tiger, giant panda, elephant, kangaroo, many more. Brief captions describe habits of each species. Colorists will find this volume entertaining and educational; artists and designers will find practical use for the royalty-free illustrations. 40 black-and-white illustrations. Captions.
Customer Reviews:
Wild...Up Close!.......2007-05-07
This coloring book is the best animal safari! Your child will see wonderful close-ups of a variety of animals. This coloring experience is what you would hope for in a zoo trip. Along with the detailed animal drawings, a desciption is included at the bottom of each page...just in case your child wants to know many facts about these amazing animals.
roar!!!.......2007-04-11
I just purchased these Dover COloring Books for my mother and she loves them. The detail is out of this world and the variety of colors you can use are only limited by your inagination. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Reddragon.......2007-03-30
The product came quickly. It was exactly as advetised and met expectations. Thank You.
Great coloring book!.......2005-07-23
This coloring book was better that I expected and the rate of delivery was really fast.
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