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This joyful 1000-piece puzzle captures one moment in time on one perfect winter day. Packed with a quirky cast of characters, unexpected details, and tons of cold-weather humor, this puzzle is ideal to assemble during those chilly months of the year and makes the perfect holiday gift.As you piece together this richly layered 1000-piece puzzle, you'll rediscover charming reasons to love the wintertime. Spanish illustrator Luci Gutiérrez brings her love of funny characters and fascinating details to this classic winter scene, and each silly moment will surprise and delight you. A man rolls around inside a snowball; Christmas trees sing; a skier goes up instead of down. This whimsical depiction of outdoor winter fun celebrates all the joy of the winter season and is sure to provide hours of puzzling fun for the whole family.This eye-catching illustrated puzzle comes with 1000 high-quality pieces and minimal puzzle dust, assembling to 25 x 20 inches. Also included is an oversize insert of

Discover the farm's feathered friends in this playful, charming 1000-piece puzzle. Featuring over 40 distinctive and colorful chicken types in a lush, green grass setting, Chickenology 1,000 Piece Puzzle showcases whimsical art and a varied scene.Whether you raise backyard chickens, have an interest in sustainable farming, or just love animals and colorful, fun puzzle scenes, this jigsaw puzzle is sure to challenge and delight! A wide variety of chickens assemble on a bright green lawn in this ideal family puzzle, depicting a flurry of activity: feathers, eggs, plants, and baby chicks fill the scene, creating layers of visual interest to explore as you solve. The image features labels for the more unusual chicken species, making this jigsaw puzzle educational as well as fun.This high-quality puzzle contains minimal puzzle dust for neater assembly and is accompanied by an oversize insert with the reference image and an artist statement by rising star Camilla Pintonato. Next time you're

Severe weather, climate change, and human-made environmental disasters have had an increasingly direct impact on our homes. This deeply researched introduction to the history of sustainable design standards in building codes explores how public policy, standard-setting trade associations, and financial incentives influence the ways in which the construction of our homes impacts the environment.The Greening of America's Building Codes investigates the legally binding regulations and economic incentives meant to control the environmental impact of contemporary construction practices as it analyzes the history of residential building codes. This book exposes how the socioeconomic and political forces that influenced early building code development continue to define the character of current building codes and, by extension, determine how we regulate environmental impact and define sustainability today.The Greening of America's Building Codes is a valuable tool for architects, architecture

Architect and artist Marshall Brown is making space for the future by remixing the legacy of modern architecture in this exploration of his visionary urban ideas, brought to life through extraordinary collages, drawings, models, and photographs.Groundbreaking architect Marshall Brown presents a vision of the future through cross-disciplinary explorations that leverage the possibilities of scale, media, and time in this survey of three unique projects. With an introduction by curator Karen Kice, discover Brown's work through a deep dive into his seminal projects for New York, Chicago, and Detroit.Recurrent Visions journeys into the cities, places, and spaces of the future crafted by the hands of today, with contributions from today's leading architectural thinkers, Monica Ponce de Leon, Joseph Becker, Allison Glenn, and Adrienne Brown, featuring three projects:UNITY Plan for the MTA Vanderbilt Rail Yards, BrooklynDequindre Civic Academy, DetroitSmooth Growth Urbanism, ChicagoDiscover th

Featuring retro, neon colors and a bright, beautiful beach image, this 1000-piece puzzle is packed with activity, sun, and fun!This high-quality jigsaw puzzle depicts a dreamy scene of a day at the beach: sunbathers, surfers, sailors, and swimmers congregate on and around this vivid stretch of sand, each of them enjoying a different activity for you to discover as you assemble the pieces. With a bold color gradient and distinctive sunset colors, this puzzle creates varied sections that are ideal for group puzzling and family time.The box includes 1000 high-quality puzzle pieces with minimal puzzle dust, accompanied by an artist statement from Sevilla-based illustrator María Medem. This puzzle also comes with an oversize insert that displays a large, clear rendering of the image to use as reference while you put together this 25 x 20-inch scene.

A Walk in the Forest is a stunning invitation to discover the woods as a place for both imaginative play and contemplation: collect pinecones, feathers, or stones; follow the tracks of a deer; or listen to the chirping of birds and the whisper of trees. Build a shelter and play hide-and-seek. Pretend the woods are a jungle, or shout out loud to stir up the birds! The forest comes alive in all its mysterious glory in Maria Dek's charming watercolor images and poetic text.商品除瑕疵品外，恕不接受退換貨因拍攝略有色差，圖片僅供參考，顏色請以實際收到商品為準

Elegant and magnificent, conservatories reveal fascinating social, cultural, botanical, and engineering advances as they have evolved across history. First appearing in the eighteenth century as simpl

Cats, cats, and more cats! Expressive or aloof, affectionate or enigmatic, cats have complicated characters that make them compelling artists' muses. Artful Cats explores the quirky and charming relat

University of Toronto: The Campus Guide, second edition, portrays the dramatic growth and development of Canada's largest university while it showcases some of the finest architecture and landscapes i

This delightful and dramatic collection of portraits reveals birds of prey as we never experience them: intimate and up close, photographed in Traer Scott's signature style. Seventy spectacular color

Amid the sublime beauty of Maine—its primordial forests, remote lakes, rugged mountains, and craggy coastline—blooms a handmade culture fed by heritage, self-sufficiency, and collaboration

McKim, Mead & White is the best-known architecture firm of late nineteenth and early twentieth century America, having built many iconic buildings of America's Gilded Age, from Columbia University and

Even in this age of messaging, nonstop emails, emoticons and emojis, it's not always clear how to make yourself understood, especially with parents, roommates, siblings and coworkers. Use this ingenuo

Walls of all sorts: social walls, border walls, political walls, emotional walls, big walls, old walls, and small walls. Speaking to today's critical political issues, this playful and encouraging sto

This groundbreaking and authoritative two-volume survey is the first truly comprehensive history of modern Italian architecture and urbanism to appear in any language. Told in lively prose, it recount

Renowned natural dyer, artist, and educator Sasha Duerr envisions a new age of fresh, modern color palettes, drawing from our original source of inspiration and ingredients-the natural world around us

If you want to join the woodworking and carving renaissance, Woodcarver's Dozen is the perfect starting point. An inspiring D.I.Y. book, written by a passionate advocate for the ancient and rewarding

One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century, Michael Graves is best known for his popular product designs, including the world-famous Alessi whistling

Like its black and red predecessors, this deluxe, cloth-covered Grids & Guides notebook offers 160 pages of varied graph paper (including some new grid designs) interspersed with engaging charts and i

We are conditioned over time to regard environmental forces such as dust, mud, gas, smoke, debris, weeds, and insects as inimical to architecture. Much of today's discussion about sustainable and gree

Geography of Home has been hailed as "an appealing, insightful collection of musings on the architecture, psychology, and history of house and home in America" (Kirkus). Now available in paperback, Ge

This comprehensive visual guide to houseplant care is packed with illustrations and hand drawings, color photography, accessible infographics, and advice for first-time and experienced plant parents alike.Build confidence in tending indoor plants through this guide to basic plant care, all while learning about the history of houseplants, how they communicate, and sustainable ways to troubleshoot houseplant parenting issues. Whether you're afraid to bring home a plant or have a healthy row of potted green pals on your windowsill, this book will walk you through the trials, errors, and joys of plant care.Perfect for those who are new to gardening or who want to learn more about how plants enrich our lives, this how-to guide from Puneet Sabharwal, cofounder of popular plant subscription company Horti, is a verdant treasure trove of information on how to raise your very own houseplants.

Baking bread provides us with comfort, stress relief, pleasure, and sustenance, but it's also complicated! Keeping consistent track of the details like yeast percentage and rising time can be a pain—u

This collection of bad behavior from acclaimed artist and illustrator Brian Rea will make you cringe, snicker, and compulsively turn the page for more. Rea's simple yet poignant scenes depict a versio

The heyday of the national A-frame craze saw tens of thousands of these easy and affordable structures built as vacation homes, roadside restaurants, churches, and even pet stores. A-frame chronicles

This exuberant collection of cartoons is an enthusiastic love letter to books and bookstores. The cartoons celebrate and critique the literary world through the work of thirty-three of the masters of

Our bestselling Grids & Guides line, writ small! Compact and stylish, the matchbook style pad flips open to reveal a custom infographic (each color has a different graphic) and 60 perforated mini-grid

Our bestselling Grids & Guides line, writ small! Compact and stylish, the matchbook style pad flips open to reveal a custom infographic (each color has a different graphic) and 60 perforated mini-grid

The Lovings: An Intimate Portrait documents the extraordinary love story of Mildred and Richard Loving. The Lovings presents Grey Villet's stunning photo-essay in its entirety for the first time and r

In the early 1960s Italian design legend Bruno Munari published his visual case studies on shapes:Circle, Square, and, a decade later, Triangle. Using examples from ancient Greece and Egypt, as well a

Like a good city, Postmodern Urbanism can be read from many perspectives as a rich conversation of world views, languages, and artifacts....It's a generous and thoughtful piece of scholarship which i

Orange Is an Apricot, Green Is a Tree Frog inspires young learners' curiosity in nature and language through the simple joy of connecting words and pictures through colors. Yellow looks like a daffodi

Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) was one of the most influential graphic designers of the twentieth century, with a prolific career spanning more than six decades and two continents. As a student and teacher

Ditch your nine-to-five and become your own boss with this insider's guide to freelancing from Martina Flor, a leading designer, educator, author, and entrepreneur. The Big Leap covers all aspects of

Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) was an influential and award-winning sculptor, a beloved figure in the Bay Area art world, and a devoted activist who advocated tirelessly for arts education. This lushly illust

Part of the generation of architects who were trained to draw both by hand and with digital tools, Nalina Moses recently returned to hand drawing. Finding it to be direct, pleasurable, and intuitive,

Love is in the air as Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey take on humankind's oldest pastime: kissing. In racy candids, humorous vintage postcards, and snapshots taken on the sly, couples from the Victoria

The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois offered a view into the lives of black Americans, conveying

Even concert pianists do warm-up exercises to limber up the fingers and clear the mind for the performance ahead. Designers are, or should be, no different. This delightful and colorful card deck pres

A Walk in the Forest introduced the enormously talented Maria Dek, and When I Am Big is a beguiling follow up to her first success. Charming illustrations and text encourage young children to explore