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From garden tools to livestock housing, from planters to lawn furniture, practical projects for the homestead, yard and garden. An enormous thick and thorough tomb by the editor...

Excellent condition with wonderful black and white vintage illustrations and some color photos. Includes all basics as well as special sections on flower boxes, greenhouses, soi...

Review by New Society: "... in a book that suggests how good Modern was before it went wrong, Reyner Banham details the European discovery of this concrete Atlantis and examines...

1950's instruction manual for mosaic making professional artist Joseph L. Young, known for his impressive modernist works for architects like Sidney Eisenshtat and Barker & Ott....

Manual No. BC-50. In -depth look at the use of welded wire fabric in concrete building construction. Extensive photos, diagrams, calculations and drawings.

From the dust jacket: Following the rule that "good design is always basically simple and architectural" the author has avoided cluttered and banal designs. Wonderful for its fu...

Over 3 inches thick with over 1500 pages. Approx. 500 projects, most of which are modernist in style with simple lines. Without a doubt, our all time favorite for style and quan...

Lots of great inspiration for the vintage modern garden objects, fences and paving. Includes many "how-to's", like a mosaic bird bath, and sand cast panels. Another great Califo...

Another in a series of wonderful vintage Sunset books that make great reference material for mid century landscape design. This one concentrates on all manner of water related f...

Terrific, thick and thorough building guide with plans, details and instructions for a full range of outdoor projects. The author seems to poo poo modern architecture for its se...

Illustrated do-it-yourself guide shows everything you need to know to plan and build virtually any tiype of deck or patio from an ultra-modern multilevel plank deck to "bargain ...

Another in a great series of vintage modern Sunset landscape books. This one cocentrates on hardscapes, including concrete, flagstone, red rock, stone, tanbark, tile, wood block...

290 illustrations: how to use, adobe, asphalt bricks, concrete, concrete blocks, flagstones, gravel, ground bark, mortar, pebble mosaic, stone tile, wood blocks, step building, ...

Another in a great series of vintage modern Sunset landscape books. This one cocentrates on hardscapes, including concrete, flagstone, red rock, stone, tanbark, tile, wood block...

Very cool, mid century, high quality Mosaic instruction book. Full of examples and in depth instruction for all kinds of projects from coffee table to outdoor use of pebbles. Al...

Clear directions, easy-to-follow diagrams for constructing, patios, fences, walls, walks, outdoor lighting, pergolas, trellises, lath houses, garden furniture containers, shelte...

Design ideas, paving, walls, fences & gates, decks and overheads, and project ideas. Black and white drawings and plans. Color photos.

Well-organized mid-century reference with excellent instructions for building patio roofs, fences, gates, mid-century style gazebo, floating benches, greenhouses, garden work ce...

Charming vintage 50's, mosaic book with how to instructions for several cool projects like the plant table and the coffee table. Overall very clean and fresh.

If you can't decide which of the many great mid-century books that cover landscape and hardscape, this one is for you. This is 5 complete Sunset books in one hardbound volume: 1...