An architect and bamboo expert shares a wealth of home design inspirations that demonstrate the beauty, utility, and endless versatility of bamboo.
In Bamboo Style, architect and author Gale Goldberg shows you how to incorporate bamboo throughout your home, from interior decorations to outdoor structures and even growing your own bamboo plants. Bamboo is highly versatile and requires little care, yet its visual appeal can change a mundane setting into an exotic oasis. Every room in your home can benefit from beautiful, sensual bamboo furniture, flooring, wall covering, ceiling material and accessories.
Bamboo Style includes a resource directory of designers, manufacturers, artists, suppliers and bamboo organizations. For do-it-yourselfers, the bamboo projects in this book-from a simple ladle to an impressive garden pergola-will inspire you with the endless creative possibilities of bamboo.
Autorentext
Gale Beth Goldberg, AIA, received her master's in architecture at MIT and has been a practicing architect for twenty years. She has participated in international conferences on bamboo, published articles, and presented at seminars and workshops.
Zusammenfassung
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.