Bamboo Style [Hardcover]

Gale Beth Goldberg (Author), Linda Garland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2002

Bamboo isn't just for Asia anymore! Author Gale Goldberg shows us how to creatively bring bamboo home, teaching us how to live with it indoors and outdoors--even how to grow your own bamboo. Every room in your home can be decorated or accented with beautful, sensual bamboo furniture, flooring, wall covering, ceiling material and accessories.

Bamboo is highly versatile, requiring little care yet having a visual appeal that can change a mundane setting into an exotic oasis. The resource directory includes connections to designers, manufacturers, artists, suppliers and bamboo organizations.

For do-it-yourselfers, the bamboo projects in this book--from a simple ladle to a more complex pergola for the garden--will inspire you to create other designs of your own.

Editorial Reviews

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Bamboo Style by Gale Beth Goldberg [is] crammed with good information about the many uses of bamboo -- Houston Chronicle, January 26, 2003

From the Publisher

The good news about bamboo is that it's upscale and sophisticated. The really good news is that it has a sustainable harvest that renews every five years. Using it is not only good for the earth, it's good for your image.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publishers; 1 edition (July 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158685092X
• ISBN-13: 978-1586850920
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,146,795 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book, with lots of inspiration for using bamboo in your home, March 12, 2006

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Esther Schindler (Scottsdale, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bamboo Style (Hardcover)

Bamboo is appealing because of its beauty and because it's a renewable resource. While it takes 25 years to grow an "old timber" forest before it can be harvested, it's only a few years before bamboo shoots grow into usable, er, timber.

This book provides a great overview of how you can decorate a home with bamboo, inside and out. You'll find plenty of beautiful pictures with everything from Balniese homes to all-bamboo living rooms, to furniture, flooring and fencing.

However, if you're looking for a how-to book, you may be disappointed. Bamboo Style's emphasis is definitely on _style_ rather than construction. It devotes quite a bit of (well written) text to the reasons to choose bamboo, and those many photographs do an excellent job of demonstrating the breadth of what the material is capable of, both physically and in a decorating sense (i.e. it can fit into a modern decor or an Arts & Crafts scheme). Plus, the book has an extensive resource section, in case you want to explore more.

There are indeed a few hands-on projects, but they're more illustrative of what you can accomplish than anything else. If you want to start building with bamboo, you should definitely get this book -- it's quite inspiring! -- but you'll want another book for the how-to.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The future is bamboo, January 5, 2003

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jmbamboo (Dora, ALabama United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bamboo Style (Hardcover)

It's true, bamboo is the future. With all the many ways bamboo can be used it will continure to grow in popularity. This book does a great job educating the reader about this unique plant. The photographs of the many ways bamboo is utilized in the home and garden are beautiful. This book makes a great gift for the plant lover.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bamboo is hot!, August 30, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Bamboo Style (Hardcover)

Everywhere you look, you see bamboo -- advertising, catalogue goods, book lists. If you have noticed and are intrigued, if you have EVER considered bamboo, then you want Bamboo Style on your bookshelf and in your hands. The author is a well-traveled architect and her skills and experience are reflected in her offering. The publisher is well-known for beautiful "style" books, among others, but it is the author who determined the scope of this publication: Why Choose Bamboo, The Ways of Bamboo, Bamboo Inside, Bamboo Outside, On Your Own, and Afterword: Bamboo and Beyond. There are many ways to read this book and benefit -- hit only the photos and captions, read the chapter you already know you'll love, try the "how-to" projects or use the resource lists at the end. Any single approach would be sufficient to warrant the purchase of this book, but do yourself a favor, and go through the entire book! There is a wealth of information here. Enjoy every bit of it and welcome to BAMBOO.