Cabin Fever: Sheds and Shelters, Huts and Hideaways
Boyer, Marie-France
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Book Details:
Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN:9780500015759
Published Date:31st August 1993
Dimensions:206 X 236 X 18 mm
Weight:0.6806 kilograms
Pages:112
Binding:Hardcover
Illustrations:134 illustrations, 130 in colour
Condition:LikeNew
Short Description
The search for solitude has produced some of the world's most romantic and beguiling buildings. This book looks at examples of cabins and hideaways from all over the world - fishing cabins in Maine, Finnish saunas, hides built by wild duck hunters in France, and English beach huts.
Full Description
Intriguing and strangely magnetic, cabins fulfil the longing in all of us to indulge again in our childhood reveries of secret hideaways, built of branches and leaves or whatever is to hand; to enter our own private world; to commune with nature and with our own selves. Hidden in the forest, up in the treetops, by the side of still or moving water, down at the end of the garden, the cabin is the most magical of dwellings. Magical, but real too, as these photos from all over the world testify: fishing cabins in Maine; the shed in Wales to which Dylan Thomas retreated to write; hides built by wild duck hunters in France, Finnish saunas, and English beach huts. The search for solitude, the need to throw off the trappings of worldly life, has produced some of the world's most romantic and beguiling buildings. Brought together here, they remind us of that wilder side of human nature which we all recognize and perhaps seek to nourish more. Their mixture of charm, eccentricity and improvisation has truly universal appeal.
