Nature, House & Home, General & Miscellaneous Architecture, Decorating, Plants & Fungi

Bamboo Style

Name: Bamboo Style
Author: Gale Beth Goldberg
ISBN: 9781423621515

by Gale Beth Goldberg

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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.

About the Author, Gale Beth Goldberg

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Gale Beth Goldberg received her masters degree in architecture from MIT and her undergraduate degree in landscape architecture from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. The recipient of a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, she studied the bamboo architecture of Simon Velez and builder/artisan Marcelo Villegas in Bogotá, Columbia, in 1998. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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Bamboo's increasing use in the West as a construction material (it grows fast, strong, and abundant, and harvesting sibling culms does not kill the mother rhizome) makes this book worth browsing. But browsers are likely to become grazers, drawn in by the large, color photos of simple, segmented poles fashioned into beautiful and ingenious domiciles, bridges, domestic accoutrements, furniture, and art objects. Once among photos, readers learn how to grow, harvest, and craft the graceful grass. The book's culmination is a sourcebook providing names of bamboo organizations, internet connections, workshops, designers, landscape architects, artists and craftspersons, custom builders, nurseries, furniture makers and retailers, etc. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)