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Timberframe: The Art and Craft of the Post-and-Beam Home explores the lush, varied design potential of this timeless architectural form. With 400 color photographs, drawings and plans, the book showcases 23 homes and 6 timberframe additions that display the warmth, character, and versatility of today's timberframe home. For homeowners and fans of this classic building form, Timberframe is a stunning visual gallery and a compelling source of inspiration.
While most modern homes conceal their humble skeletons, the timberframe home honors the structure by displaying it for all to see. The elegant beauty of soaring wood timbers, each magnificently crafted to join with the next, suggest strength, safe haven and permanence. Each home in Timberframe celebrates its wooden bones in its own way, from East Coast island traditional to Nebraska contemporary.
The author, Tedd Benson is known as the most respected name in timberframe design and construction. Just ask This Old House's Norm Abram - Norm had Tedd build the timberframe addition for the kitchen/family room onto Norm's own home. Norm Abram also wrote the foreward for this book. Since 1974, Tedd Benson, owner of Benson Woodworking in New Hampshire, has built more than 500 timberframe buildings. Benson's work has been featured on PBS's This Old House and in scores of magazine and newspaper articles. Benson is a founder of the Timber Framers Guild of North America. This book is softbound at 232 pages featuring 400 color photos and 46 drawings. Book measures 9 1/4" x 11".
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