Great Windows & Walls Collection
More photos and more ideas than any other book of window solutions.
Creative window treatments and wall colors combined for stylish, elegant home decor.
Custom solutions using curtains, valances, cornices, swags and jabots, shades, shutters, blinds, and draperies.
Tips help homeowners choose the perfect covering for any window.
Advice on working with pros for custom treatments.
The Magic Curtain: The Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song by Thomas Torrans, ISBN 0875652573
Borderlands -- especially the United States-Mexico borderland -- have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability, according to Thomas Torrans. And borders -- or magic curtains -- have readily been fashioned into exotic backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. The protagonists are equally at home in both societies, or, at worst, at home in neither.
True border novels form a literature that deserves a category all its own. There is an uneven quality -- a coarseness sometimes mixed with polish, running the gamut of emotion from the tragic to the comic.
One recent fictional attempt to exploit the border's historical aspects is Fandango by Ron McCoy (1984), while one of the older efforts is that of the early twentieth-century novelist Will Levington Comfort in Somewhere South in Sonora (1925). Border fiction is often just part of a larger whole and a number of books, whether fiction or nonfiction, seldom...
The Magic Curtain: The Mexican-American Border in Fiction, Film, and Song by Thomas Torrans, ISBN 0875652573
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The School Play Surprise
A mysterious message sends Scooby and Shaggy to the school auditorium, but it looks like something spooky is going on. First Fred vanishes into thin air, and then they see witches lurking back stage. Can Scooby and the gang solve this mystery before it's curtains for them? Full color.
The School Play Surprise
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Design Ideas for Windows
"Design Ideas for Windows offers" hundreds of ways for dressing a window. In addition, the book provides important information regarding hardware and installation, measuring, maintenance and care, as well as solutions for problem windows. Included are the both hard (blinds and shutters) and soft (curtains, draperies, valances, and fabric shades) treatments.
Design Ideas for Windows
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C. F. A. Voysey by Wendy Hitchmough, ISBN 0714837121
From the 1890s until the outbreak of the First World War, C F A Voysey was one of the most successful and renowned British architects. His elegant, white-rendered houses with stone window dressings and sweeping green-slate roofs combined clarity with a sensual appreciation of natural materials. A designer of all things domestic, as well as an architect, he was often involved in every aspect of a house's interior from wallpaper, curtains and furniture to fire grates. Moreover, the fluid curves of his decorative designs and the elongated simplicity of his furniture prove him to be a vital historical link between the Arts and Crafts and the Modern movements.
As the first definitive account of Voysey's architectural career, this book combines contemporary sources -- photographs, quotations, original wallpaper designs and watercolour perspectives -- with specially commissioned photography of his houses.
C. F. A. Voysey by Wendy Hitchmough, ISBN 0714837121
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