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Handmade Houses: A Guide to the Woodbutcher's Art [Hardcover]

Art Boericke (Author), Barry Shapiro (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: 1973

If you have ever thought about getting it all together...time, energy, land, materials...to build something of your very own, this book may entice you to take the fatal step. Author, Art Boericke and Photography Barry Shapiro have traveled for years to the ends of many rural road in order to visit and record the best owner-built structures they could.

These words and images will not telly ou what to build nor how to build it. We hope that the book will show you some neat solutions to old problems, with gorgeous embellishments, and it will tell you that you needn't be a titan of carpentry in order to have a sprightly outbuilding or a snug main house.

#outer_postBodyPS { display: none; } #psGradient { display: none; } #psPlaceHolder { display: none; } #psExpand { display: none; } If you have ever thought about getting it all together...time, energy, land, materials...to build something of your very own, this book may entice you to take the fatal step. Author, Art Boericke and Photography Barry Shapiro have traveled for years to the ends of many rural road in order to visit and record the best owner-built structures they could.

These words and images will not telly ou what to build nor how to build it. We hope that the book will show you some neat solutions to old problems, with gorgeous embellishments, and it will tell you that you needn't be a titan of carpentry in order to have a sprightly outbuilding or a snug main house.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 95 pages
Publisher: Scrimshaw Press; 1st edition (1973)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0912020008
ISBN-13: 978-0912020006
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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“ Finding this book many, many years after I had moved away, was like stepping back in time...a real pleasure to read! ” Sus | 8 reviewers made a similar statement

“ Can't wait to dream again of what could have been. ” JDL | 6 reviewers made a similar statement

“ I bought this book about 9 years ago in a Wellington second hand bookshop and have been in love with the images contained within ever since. ” Chris Moore | 3 reviewers made a similar statement

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Truly a pleasure: folk art and 1960s/70s documentary January 25, 2004

By Quickhappy

Format:Paperback

There is something warm and peaceful about this book. It is a transporter, ready to take you back to Northern California or Oregon of the 1970s. It is folk art and naked children--a time before Martha Stewart. It is an architecture of freedom and spontaneity, earthiness, and autonomy. Here people have put together woody structures of the mind and captured in form the feeling that I remember so well from my Northern California childhood in the 70s.

The book is just photos--no building instructions, no pretense to being authoritative or comprehensive; art homes which caught the authors' eyes.

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5.0 out of 5 stars great for inspiration and wonderful conversation piece June 29, 1998

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I found this book several years ago at a library sale and all my friends enjoy the pictures of rustic cabins. It is certainly a picture book and not a how-to book but it has sparked many grand thoughts and converstations over the years. It's worth many a good slow look.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A visual smorgasbord from a time somehow forgotten March 28, 2003

By Chris Moore

Format:Hardcover

I bought this book about 9 years ago in a Wellington second hand bookshop and have been in love with the images contained within ever since.
It provides an inspiration to me of the handmade house as a place of unlimited creative expression and a melding of the function and form of shelter into whatever it's creator is capable of imagining.
Savour the images and let them seep into your subcouncious...who knows what journey they may set you upon.

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5.0 out of 5 stars so cool.

very great ideas for any one who is considering revovations or building a cabin. The little split cedat cabin is exquisite. Read more

Published 1 month ago by Sojo Gunn

3.0 out of 5 stars Memory failed me

I saw this book on a coffee table in the late 70's and loved it. Now I find it dated and less moving.

Published 2 months ago by Griff Hulsey

5.0 out of 5 stars replacing a lost treasure

lost this book years ago in a fire, have had the book since back in 70s. it still makes me dream

Published 5 months ago by Richard M Eldredge

5.0 out of 5 stars An Exploration For A New Bride

I was a new bride by a few months when this book was published. My husband and I had bought land on the Northern Ca coast and were looking to build a cabin. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Carol L. Iingraham

5.0 out of 5 stars Wood butchers Art

I bought this first when new while living in Santa Barbara and it drew me into northern California.It's the kind of book you put on your coffee table if your coffee table were a... Read more

Published 6 months ago by A. Anderson

5.0 out of 5 stars dream.......

i owned this when it was published......in the 70's....it was a magical eye opener...to how one could live with natural beauty.....creativity...and free thinking..... Read more

Published 6 months ago by kjterz

5.0 out of 5 stars "Woodbutchers Art" ,a true story with a misleading title.

Well this is a book from a bygone era, before the days of huge houses with energy consuming devices in every room. Read more

Published 7 months ago by Mike's Two Bob

5.0 out of 5 stars I really miss this book!

I bought this book in a book store in Norman, OK in the mid 70's. I lost the book in 1983 when the place I was working blewup and burned down! Read more

Published 11 months ago by J. Herring

5.0 out of 5 stars Over the years......

I just bought this book and eagerly await its arrival. I first saw this book in the early 70's. I have thought of the images often. Read more

Published 17 months ago by JDL

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic!

This book is a perfect snapshot of the hippie-style, back-to-the-land approach to housing that captivated the early baby-boomers who wanted to drop off the grid. Read more

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