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Proving that accessibility and elegance need not be mutually exclusive, High-Access Home is filled with high-end interiors embodying the best of barrier-free living. Aimed at minimizing the effort needed to accomplish everyday tasks, Universal Design strives for buildings and products that can be used by the broadest possible range of people. Rather than such using obvious hallmarks of accessibility as a conspicuous ramp shooting straight up to the front door or the stainless-steel grab bars reminiscent of a hospital, Universal Design overlays the user-friendly with the stylish, melding aesthetics and practicality.
With beautiful photos and intelligent text, the volume analyzes what makes these spaces so successful and offers suggestions for incorporating the ideas into your own home. Most of the dwellings featured here are fairly luxurious, with elaborate decor and extensive renovations beyond many budgets, but there is also much helpful information for countless adaptations, such as shower seats, door levers, easy-access cabinets, and much more. This creative and carefully planned approach goes beyond Universal Design to become plain-old good design from which anyone can benefit. --Amy Handy
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Welcome to the home of the future, courtesy of Universal Design, a new movement that's helping the disabled, the aged, pregnant women, and children live with ease and comfort. Think of the automatic garage door, which originated out of necessity for a client whose condition prevented him from lifting a heavy door. Now just imagine if your home was as easy to operate.
"High-Access Home" redefines the standards for home design today. Conveniently positioned sinks, grab bars in the shower, properly illuminated hallways, and remote controls for the window shades, adjustable kitchen counters are just some of the improvements shown in this illustrated volume. You'll never have to reach for a light switch or bend for an outlet again.
At first glance, a home that follows the principles of Universal Design does not look any different from a traditional, well-crafted home. A connoisseur of the user-friendly Universal Design home appreciates its invisibility as much as its functionality. Subtle differences are its hallmark-with levers instead of knobs on doors, with wider hallways and doors, non-slip floors in the bathroom, roomier garages, elevators, and touch pads, Universal Design is a silent revolution in simplifying life.
"High-Access Home" tours the top of the line homes that follow Universal Design, featuring both revamped old homes and newly-constructed ones as well. Tour Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Top Cottage or visit the Carroll Center for the Blind, which happens to be a renovated stable that's ultra-chic. Following this tour is a room-by-room breakdown of how to create the ideal home to make living easier. This chapter focuses in-depth on the entry, the living room, the bathroom, the kitchen, the bedroom, and the home office, providing helpful tips on how to get started simplifying your home life. Additional resources for product manufacturers, non-profit organizations, and government organizations are provided in the appendix. If you are living with an aging parent, children, or you would like to "age in place," or have a disability, "High-Access Home" will provide advice, inspiration, and resources for barrier-free living.
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High access home IDEAS . . ........2002-02-24
Okay, so this book doesn't contain much in the way of product identification or info on how to buy anything. Still, if -- like us -- you are in the process of designing a home in which you expect to live for the rest of your life, what this book does do, and do well, is prove that accessible design CAN be beautiful (and "no," it isn't necessary to spend a fortune to implement most of the ideas in this book). This book is like any other interior design book -- the ideas are illustrated with high-end products. But once you "get" what needs to be modified for an accessible home, most of the ideas can be incorporated into standard construction. We found this book both enjoyable and helpful.
Is it worth your money? Depends on what you are looking for!.......2000-06-22
This book is beautifully laid out, the photography is well done and it would make a coffee table sparkle. But its usefulness is limited to new house construction, to people who like open floor plans, and for those who have the money to spend. I believe it will be of little help to anyone who is working with an older home and is remodeling rather than gutting it and starting over. Also I disagree with some of the layouts in kitchens, etc. as to how easy they are to access with a wheelchair or with a person whose disability prevents them from bending forward or side to side. There is inefficiency to have a person open two doors and then extend drawers. You can design drawers with a lower side to view contents. There were two photos that helped me to visualize concepts I had read about elsewhere. Is it worth your money? Depends on what you are looking for!
High-Access Home.......2000-04-23
This book is totally impractical and a big waste of money. It portrays "mansions for the disabled" by use of dramatic single and double-page pictures. The text is sparse and often uninformative. It has an almost total dearth of practical information which would be useful to anyone but a multi-millionaire. For example, one photo shows a beautifully decorated living space which includes, as its sole sop to the handicapped, a wheelchair with an attractive throw pillow on its seat. (How practical is that?) Another photo shows a kitchen with almost no cabinetry below the countertops, enabling a person in a wheelchair to work at any of the surfaces. But what tools, dishes or food would this person find for his or her use? Unfortunately, most of these items must then be stored out of reach in its overhead cabinets. The small amount of practical information available could be, and has been, successfully put in a pamphlet. While the jacket cover claims that the book contains "practical advice for converting your home for accessible living," what is actually depicted are new homes of amazing size and splendor, not accessible to 99.9% of all people, disabled or otherwise. I am still looking for a definitive text on planning for accessability. This is so much easier to build into a home than it is to add later. I personally feel that it would be desirable if all new homes could be built with accessibility in mind. Yet the topic is rarely mentioned in any book on home design.
For the very rich only.......2000-04-21
This book is fabulous for the disabled multi-millionaire who can afford to build a very expensive user-friendly house. Unfortunately, it is useless for those of us with more modest incomes who want to modify our homes to put off moving to assisted living facilities. Time magazine gave a totally misleading brief review of this book. For us, AARP is a much better source of information, much of it free....
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I like it, but.......2006-06-04
I like this book. It's not the greatest, but it's not bad. If you're starting out painting and need some basic guidance for general skin colors it's probably ok. Where it's lacking is in most anything beyond the basic color of skin. There's no discussion of skin color in shadow, in the halftones where the skin turns away from the light, or where the skin blends into the hairline. Little about the affect of light, surroundings, or location (cheek, chin, forehead, etc.) on skin color either. Those things make or break portraits and some (me) just can't seem to mix the right colors to go with the basic skin tone of the model. I wish that had been addressed in this book... that would make it worth 5 stars (and maybe what people are asking for it these days).
Always By My Side.......2005-10-09
This book is always on my workbench. As stated by another reviwer, the "Suggested Tonal Charts" section has been invaluable, and has inspired me to experiment with colors not on the list. By step-by-step examples, and by showing works of various artists, you really get a sense of color technique. I also recommend this book to model figure painters; after studying this book, the skin tones on my figures have started to look more natural instead of having that "exaggerated theatrical make-up" look!
Brilliant.......2004-03-11
This book is brilliant. Although it won't teach you how to paint, it will give you the greatest insight into how to mix colours for a near perfect image. Whether you are an amature or a professional, a book like this and at such a small cost is worth having on your shelf as an anytime reference.
Indispensable guide to a difficult subject.......2003-12-20
I admit it: I bought this book for myself for a Christmas present, and it was well worth the price paid. Here is information I have never gotten in art school. Though it is probably entirely possible to learn to paint the face and figure by being presented with a model in a crowded and badly lit room, there has to be a better way, and I think this book is it. Through a clever system of charts using a palette of only 12 basic colors, author James Horton shows you how to create an infinite array of skin tones for people of pale, mid-tone and dark coloring. Specific modifications for pastellists are included, and though I'm just a beginner, I was amazed what I could do following his directions when I was only about a fourth of the way through the book. I recommend this very highly for all students, whether you're enrolled in an art course somewhere or just slugging it out on your own at home. I intend to finish every exercise in the book before I go back to art school at the end of January. Highly recommended!!!
especially good for beginners.......2001-07-30
This book, with its charts of sample mixes and color tones in various media, is a great asset if you are just begining to paint portraits or people. It will give you a good basic understanding of color mixing for skin tones. ( no need to buy premixed colors! Be able to paint the nuance of people, not reduce everyone to the same "skin tones.") In addition, it discussed the effects of shadow and reflected color. Nice illustrations, photos and color charts.
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Learn the secrets of Al Stine, Michael P. Rocco, Kevin Macpherson, Paul Leveille, Bet Borgeson, Lee Hammond and other great artists! Add life to your portraits and authenticity to your figures! In these pages, top artists share proven techniques for painting portraits, distant figures, bustling crowds and more. It's some of the best step-by-step instruction ever published by North Light Books--from how to use light, composition and color effectively to full-length painting demonstrations. No matter what your medium or painting experience, these keys will help you unlock new levels of expression in your faces and figures.
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keys to painting faces&figures.......2000-12-10
This book was extremely helpful to me as an already practicing professional artist. It had helpful suggestions for handling new details that I hadn't approached in a long time. For the beginner to the professional,this book has something for everyone. If you are interested in learning new techniques for solving some of the problems you may encounter, this is the book for you!!
Excellent Book For 2 or 3 Dimensional Artists.......1999-10-26
This is an excellent book for both the two dimensional artist or the three dimensional sculptor. It has a wonderful assortment of various ethnic faces for reference and gorgeous children of various ages and backgrounds. The proportional head charts are the best that I have seen. "Keys to Painting Faces & Figures" is beautifully presented and would be an asset to any artist's library.
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During the seventeenth century, Dutch portraits were actively commissioned by corporate groups and by individuals from a range of economic and social classes. Ann Jensen Adams examines four portrait genres - individuals, the family, history portraits, and civic guards. Adams argues that as individuals became unmoored from traditional sources of identity, such as familial lineage, birthplace, and social class, portraits helped them to find security in a self-aware subjectivity and the new social structures that made possible the 'economic miracle' that has come to be known as the Dutch Golden Age.
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In the fantastic portraits by the 16th-century Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, compositions of fruit, vegetables, flowers, and books, animals, or garden tools magically turn into vivid depictions of beautiful young women, weathered old men, or the personifications of the seasons and the elements. This volume brings together some of the most curious and inventive of his works which went to make Arcimboldo a celebrated artist in court circles and a unique painter in the history of art.
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where is my book?.......2007-01-10
I never got this book, I keep receiving emails for "order update" where I am asked to confirm my order delay.
I expect this book to be great, but where is it?
Great for a kids book.......2002-05-07
This book is very short and tells a story that kids could understand regarding the painter and the royal court he painted for. Each picture has a short story as well as a descriptive explanation of what items are in the picture. This would be a great way to teach kids that items are and still have it be fun because the faces are so silly. I highly recommend this book.
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The meaning of a painted portrait and even its subject may be far more complex than expected, Tamar Garb reveals in this book. She charts for the first time the history of French female portraiture from its heyday in the early nineteenth century to its demise in the early twentieth century, showing how these paintings illuminate evolving social attitudes and aesthetic concerns in France over the course of the century.
The author builds the discussion around six canonic works by Ingres, Manet, Cassatt, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse, beginning with Ingres’s idealized portrait of Mme de Sennones and ending with Matisse’s elegiac last portrait of his wife. During the hundred years that separate these works, the female portrait went from being the ideal genre for the expression of painting’s capacity to describe and embellish “nature,” to the prime locus of its refusal to do so. Picasso’s Cubism, and specifically Ma Jolie, provides the fulcrum of this shift.
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The first in a new series, The Art of Painting Miniatures: Faces and Figures provides a fresh look at the art of figure painting. The content is this book is a result of 30 years hands-on experience, critical observation, experimentation and enhancement of what works. The step-by-step painting process will elevate your level of figure painting from a?poorly painted face to a realistic one. The goal is to give the figure, in particular the head and face, serious and artistic treatment, emphasizing skin tones, character development and realism.
This book is dedicated to the beginner as well as the experienced modelers, who feel a need to tell a story using figures in their vignettes and dioramas; to the textile painters who paint uniforms, banners, flags and other accessories with great detail and but need the concept and techniques to improve their face and figure work; to the advance modeler who understands his level of expertise and depends on another at his level to paint the figures for his dioramas; for the experienced modelers who want to elevate the level of their figures, and learn how to critically look and improve their face and figure work; and lastly, for the masters, these concepts will deepen and drive their techniques to a more profound level of realism.
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Drawing and Painting Faces and Figures
Adrian Keith Graham Hill
Manufacturer: Transatlantic Arts
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Hands, Faces and Figures (Painting Solutions)
Angela Gair
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Very disappointing.......2006-08-12
From the cover: "... all your painting questions answered and solved." Reality: NONE of my painting questions answered or solved. It's a poor book doesn't do what it claims. It offers up general topics and gives generic answers. There's no focus.
Also, at the time I bought this edition (ISBN 1-55521-720-6) the author was listed as Hazel Harrison. The author is Angela Gair and the name Hazel Harrison doesn't appear anywhere in the book. I've submitted the correction to Amazon, but thought I'd mention it in case it's not been corrected by the time you read this.
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The Photography of Ben Winans of Brookville, Indiana, 1902-1926
Donald L. Dunaway
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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ASIN: 0871951541 |
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From 1981 until 1947, Franklin County businessman Ben Winans produced approximately three thousand glass-plate negatives depicting life in Brookville, an archetypal small Indiana community of two thousand people. One hundred and thirty of these remarkable photos are showcased here, along with historical information and captions by Brookville resident Don Dunaway, who has helped preserve these treasures.
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Ghost: Exhuming Elisa
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The world's greatest paranormal, Ghost, uncovers her killer. The protector of Arcadia, X, gets killed. It's the story you've been dying for and it's all right here, in one volume! Beginning with Ghost #20, this deluxe trade paperback takes you up through the revelatory Ghost #25, and if that isn't reason enough to grab it, check out the gorgeous John Bolton cover!
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