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Our Top 10 chart is updated monthly, compiled from sales and clickthroughs by visitors to Sapling.info, the Home Interiors Directory, and the Garden & Landscape Directory.
Last update: September 2009
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No. 1
A Cozy Quilted Christmas: 90 Designs, 17 Projects to Decorate Your Home
NEW ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 1
Months on chart: 1
Kim Schaefer
(2007)
Paperback - 64 pages
C & T Publishing
ISBN: 1571204032
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Get into the Christmas spirit with these quick-and-easy holiday projects - from adorable applique designs for Santas, snowmen, sleighs, snowflakes to creating tree skirts, table runners, and other festive accessories. "A Cozy Quilted Christmas" presents 17 festive projects and over 90 full-size patterns to mix and match. Great for gifts and great for making the festive season more cheerful than ever before, these projects put the ho-ho-ho in home decor!
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No. 2
The Thrifty Gardener: How to Create a Stylish Garden for Next to Nothing
NEW ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 2
Months on chart: 1
Alys Fowler
(2008 - New Edition)
Paperback - 192 pages
Kyle Cathie
ISBN: 1856267776
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Gardening is something you do,not something you buy. You don't have to spend money to have a great garden. Slow gardening - like slow food - is taking time to savour. It's the process, not this sudden transformation that matters. When you build a little, dig a bit, plant a little, harvest often and more importantly don't try and do it all at once, nature will work for you. For this is gardening that won't cost the earth. This is a book that will eliminate the intimidation factor and reveal the ins and outs of soil, seeds, sowing and growing. Designed to be highly appropriate for beginners, it will cover the basics like planning, planting and pruning using organic and inexpensive methods. Its quirky projects and thrifty ethic will mean that it reaches beyond the usual gardening audience - this book is for those who would rather be found hunting through a skip than be seen in a garden centre.
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No. 3
Churchill and Chartwell: The Untold Story of Churchill's Houses and Gardens
UP 4
Sapling chart trend: 7-5-10-3-X-X
Peak position: 3
Months on chart: 5
(2007)
Hardcover - 384 pages
Frances Lincoln Publishers
ISBN: 0711225354
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This book is a biography of Winston Churchill through the houses he lived in and the gardens he made. It culminates with the full story of his purchase, alteration and creation of Chartwell, Kent, where he lived for more than forty years before and after the war, and which is now owned and run by the National Trust in keeping with his intentions. Churchill was born amidst the splendour of Blenheim Palace but, ever a restless spirit, he owned or rented many houses, both grand and relatively modest, over the course of his long life, including country retreats, modern town apartments and, as First Lord of the Admiralty, Admiralty House. But it was his house at Chartwell that would be for ever associated with the name Churchill. Based on extensive and scholarly archive study, this unique book brings to light an array of previously unpublished details and reveals a fascinating side to Britain's greatest war leader. Winston Churchill was named the Greatest Briton of all time in a BBC poll that attracted nearly a million votes. He remains a hugely popular figure. This is the first book on Churchill to focus on this relatively private aspect of his character. It contains material from the Churchill archives, including reproductions of his paintings.
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No. 4
Materials for Interior Environments
DOWN 3
Sapling chart trend: 1-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 1
Months on chart: 2
Corky Binggeli
(2007)
Hardcover - 352 pages
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470114282
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
There are thousands of products available for use in interior environments, every one with its assets and disadvantages. The process of selecting the right interior material for the job can be bewildering and - occasionally - perilous. This book is a guide to knowing, evaluating, and selecting materials that will look good, work well, and respect human and environmental needs. Organized by types of materials, and applications, this guide helps designers successfully address material evaluation and selection of interior components. Technical information for each material is presented in a concise reference format to aid designers in their design solutions. Covering all aspects of interior design materials, this book includes: health and safety codes; human factors and material selection; economic criteria; environmental criteria; and, finishes for walls, windows, ceilings, flooring, and millwork and furniture materials. Practical estimating and installation tools, industry standards, testing and code requirements, and written specification guides for each application.
Engagingly written, highly detailed, and helpfully illustrated with more than 250 color and black-and-white illustrations, "Materials for Interior Environments" is a comprehensive guide to everything a designer needs to know about the materials available for interiors - from aesthetic qualities to manufacturing and fabrication, applications, installation and maintenance, and specifications for materials used in commercial and residential applications.
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No. 5
Opera House Lottery: Zaha Hadid and the Cardiff Bay Project
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-7-5-1-5-X
Peak position: 1
Months on chart: 20
Nicholas Crickhowell
(1997)
Hardcover - 192 pages
University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708314422
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
When Zaha Hadid's exciting and controversial design for the Cardiff Bay Opera House won an international competition, but the project was turned down by the Millennium Commission, the news created a sensation that hit the front pages on both sides of the Atlantic. The story of how this came about tells us as much about politicians, about the way the National Lottery is run, and about the role of the popular press in shaping public opinion and public policy, as it does about the design of the building.
This is the story, told from the inside, of a dream that was shattered; of controversial decisions involving Michael Heseltine and Virginia Bottomley; of attitudes in the Welsh Office under five Conservative Secretaries of State; of in-fighting across political boundaries by MPs and local politicians; of a campaign by the Sun against elitism; of the way in which large international architectural competitions are managed and mismanaged; of the manoeuvring of celebrated architects; and of the betrayal of those most closely involved by the Cardiff Bay Development Corporation. The intricacies of this truly operatic plot are unravelled by the former cabinet minister who was at its centre.
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No. 6
Seaside Interiors
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-9-6
Peak position: 1
Months on chart: 6
Diane Dorrans Saeks, Angelika Taschen (Editor)
(2005)
Hardcover - 303 pages
Taschen
ISBN: 3822847569
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
By the sea, by the sea, by the beautiful sea... Who has never dreamt of living by the sea: the roar of the waves, the fresh salty breeze, the endless beach... This book's journey through five continents takes you to the world's most idyllic seaside homes, from a rustic fisherman's house in Sweden to an artist's cottage located idyllically on the coast of Maine, an elegant apartment in Monte Carlo, a colourful beach hut on the Punta del Este in Uruguay and much, much more.
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No. 7
New Architecture and Technology
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 3
Months on chart: 3
Gyula Sebestyen, Christopher Pollington, Julius Rudnay
(2003)
Paperback - 240 pages
Architectural Press
ISBN: 0750651644
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
This text explores the interrelation between architecture, materials and technology, highlighting the impact modern technology and materials have on architecture. The book explores the technical progress of building showing how developments, both past and present, are affected by construction technology. It also explores aspects of building technology within the context of general industrial, social and economic developments. The reader should aquire a vocabulary covering the entire range of structure types and learn a new approach to understanding the development of design.
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No. 8
Art Deco Interiors: Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-3-X-X-6-X
Peak position: 3
Months on chart: 6
Patricia Bayer
(1998)
Paperback - 224 pages
Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0500280207
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
By the time of the Paris exhibition of 1925 from which Art Deco took its name, the idea that an interior and its furnishings should form a complete design - a "total look" - dominated the thinking of both designers and their clients. Studios began to emerge to serve the needs of a design and style-conscious middle-class. This text displays the flourishing design ingenuity through contemporary photographs and illustrations of selected interiors complemented with modern photographs of individual pieces. It traces the sylistic evolution and dominant motifs of Deco, the triumph of the 1925 exhibition and the pure "high style" of the Paris ensembliers; the growth of Streamline Moderne offshoots in the US; the international revival of Deco as a decorative style for a new generation of post-modern designers; and the restoration of many Art Deco interiors to their original state.
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No. 9
Choosing Colours
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-2-X-X-X-X
Peak position: 2
Months on chart: 2
Kevin McCloud
(2007 - New Edition)
Paperback - 192 pages
Quadrille Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1844004406
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Choosing the right colours for your home can be fraught with difficulties and with literally thousands of shades of paint available in DIY stores the choice can be overwhelming. With this book Kevin McCloud from TV's 'Grand Designs' has taken the hard work out of home decorating by researching, selecting and combining over 750 colours into more than 60 tried-and-tested palettes that will transform your home. Stunningly well produced and printed in six colours for astonishing accuracy, each palette provides a blueprint for a decorative scheme that you can transfer to your own home confident that they have been sourced by a renowned authority on colour with a brilliant visual eye. Taken from a wide variety of sources - historical, regional and cultural - each palette is made up of a collection of 3-16 colour swatches and features a photograph demonstrating how those colours can be used in period or contemporary settings. A palette based on old Chinese silk, for example, is seen in a New York apartment, while the colours of eighteenth-century French porcelain are translated intocontemporary country chintz. The swatches are accompanied by hints on how best and in what situations to use the colour, and each is identified by a manufacturer's paint reference for the appropriate territory. A list of suppliers completes this unique, invaluable reference book.
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No. 10
The Colour Scheme Sourcebook: Learn How to Combine Colours to Achieve the Look You Desire
RE-ENTRY
Sapling chart trend: X-X-X-X-X-10
Peak position: 1
Months on chart: 8
Anna Starmer
(2005)
Paperback - 250 pages
Apple Press
ISBN: 1845430441
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
How do you combine colours without them clashing? How do you know which colours will complement each other for a subdued effect, and which will give a more energised feel? This inspirational handbook contains over 200 colour scheme ideas for interior designers and home decorators. Discover how colour can be used to create ambience, or to give the illusion of space, depth, warmth and light. Divided into the major colour groups, each section explores a range of hues, from primary brights to the palest of pastels, presenting failsafe palettes for refreshingly original interior schemes.
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