Barn: The Art of a Working Building

by Elric Endersby, David Larkin, Alexander Greenwood

Book Overview

For two centuries, a New England barn watches history unfold. The elegant oil paintings and lyrical text capture the beauty of a barn faithfully keeping vigil generation after generation. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395573726
• ISBN13: 9780395573723
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 3.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.5" x 12.4"

Customer Reviews

BARN is a great book

BARN is a great book for people that love old barns and the way they were biult with such simple tools.

Best Ever Barn Book

Endersby and fellow authors, using an intelligent combination of pictures, drawings, and text to successfully depict both finished buildings and structural detail, have written the definitive book on barns. They trace the lineage of American barns from their European roots in a lively, readable, informative format. In addition to it's functional qualities, the book is quite handsome, a stunning addition to the library of anyone who likes barns. Quite simply, this is the best book on barns I have ever seen.

Barn, the art of a working building

This book is truely an inspiration... the images and descriptions will bring great memories of Barns to your mind, will bring tears to your eyes if you spent childhood fantasies in "the barn", and might inspire you to save, build, or restore a barn someday... thank you Elric, Alexander , and David, whoever and wherever you are for presenting such a work...It stays on the table, within easy reach...