An exploration of the architectural styles and decor of the conservatory. Colour illustrated.

The Book of the Conservatory

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Marston, Peter

Gardening & Landscape Design

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

A practical guide for all owners and would-be owners to planning, designing, creating, furnishing and enjoying a conservatory. Peter Marston describes how the conservatory evolved, and explores the many different architectural styles to suit houses of all periods, from the pavillion adjoining the country house to the garden room for the suburban villa. Both text and illustrations offer a wealth of ideas for furnishing, lighting, flooring, glazing, heating, and ventilation revealing the conservatory to be one of the most versatile and desirable rooms in the house. The book also highlights various styles of conservatory gardening, identifies suitable plants, and provides listings of sources for conservatory supplies.

Traditional conservatories extend the home, offering both an easy way to protect tender plants from harsh climates and a comfortable room for year-round enjoyment. With recent advances in glass, a conservatory can be secure, warm in winter, and pleasantly cool in summer. Best of all, it can even function as a dining room, studio, or kitchen! Take a contemporary look at conservatory design, and at fresh ways of construction, styling the interior, linking indoor and outdoor space, and adding plants. The beautiful buildings on display include a graceful octagonal structure connected to the home by a glazed corridor and featuring a towering palm tree, a charming wooded retreat that can only be reached by a ladder; a tiny city conservatory, and pool houses. A treat and inspiration for the eye, the imagination, and the eventual occupants!

The Conservatory Book

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Cassell

Offers advice on planning, designing, planting, and furnishing a conservatory, shows examples of various styles, and discusses architectural detail

Orion Pub Co

With elements from both indoors and out, a garden room serves as a link between house and garden. No longer limited to the Victorian-style sun room, these glassed-in spaces can be kitchens or dining rooms, studios, small studies or garden retreats, even entire homes-in short, virtually any area that receives plenty of natural light. Starting with background information on the evolution of glass rooms and the basic elements of the style, the book examines each variation on the successful garden room. Chapters cover the effect of the garden outside, color, entertaining, wicker, and other furniture, pools and fountains, antiques and statuary. The more technical considerations of wall and floor finishes, heating and lighting, rugs and blinds-and of course, planting under glass-are all discussed in detail for a well-considered room. Filled with inspiring color photographs of relaxed interiors, Garden Room Style is a sumptuous guide and idea book for everyone who has a sunny, light-filled haven-and is a vivid wish book for readers planning for the future.

Garden Room Style

Rizzoli

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The Book of the Conservatory

The Book of the Conservatory

The Conservatory Book

The Book of the Conservatory

Garden Room Style