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Gazebos and Trellises: Authentic Details for Design and Restoration (Historic Landscape Detail)

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Peter Joel Harrison provides a valuable service to architects, designers, preservationists, landscapers and homeowners by researching, recording and presenting the details of historic homes and gardens. His books, full of accurate drawings of historic fences, gates, gazebos, trellises, pavement and garden walls, are tools for anyone who's restoring an 18th or 19th century home or landscape and inspiration for anyone who hopes to infuse some of yesterday's charm into a new building. This book presents fascinating garden buildings in all of the styles of America's architectural heritage. If you're looking for a gazebo or pool house to match your period home, this is the book to start with.

Mr. Harrison has done a fabulous job capturing historical treasures. If you're looking for scaled drawings you will be sorely disappointed. If you're looking for accurate depictions of historical design from which to create your own measured drawings, this is the book for you! Many elevations.

Both of the books recently purchased are not worth the price. Gazebos and Trellises was sadly missing detail found in far cheaper books published by Dover Books. Sadly, I will probably not trust Amazon again in always representing good value.