{"product_id":"9781469240749","title":"A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams","description":" \"A room of one's own: is there anybody who hasn't at one time or another wished for such a place, hasn't turned those soft words over until they'd assumed a habitable shape?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen writer Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was an award-winning treatise on the borders between nature and contemporary life, the acclaimed bestseller \u003ci\u003eSecond Nature\u003c\/i\u003e. Now Pollan turns his sharp insight to the craft of building, as he recounts the process of designing and constructing a small one-room structure on his rural Connecticut property—a place in which he hoped to read, write and daydream, built with his two own unhandy hands.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvoking the titans of architecture, literature and philosophy, from Vitrivius to Thoreau, from the Chinese masters of feng shui to the revolutionary Frank Lloyd Wright, Pollan brilliantly chronicles a realm of blueprints, joints and trusses as he peers into the ephemeral nature of \"houseness\" itself. From the spark of an idea to the search for a perfect site to the raising of a ridgepole, Pollan revels in the infinitely detailed, complex process of creating a finished structure. At once superbly written, informative and enormously entertaining, \u003ci\u003eA Place of My Own\u003c\/i\u003e is for anyone who has ever wondered how the walls around us take shape—and how we might shape them ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Place of My Own recounts his two-and-a-half-year journey of discovery in an absorbing narrative that deftly weaves the day-to-day work of design and building—from siting to blueprint, from the pouring of foundations to finish carpentry—with reflections on everything form the power of place to shape our lives to the question of what constitutes \"real work\" in a technological society.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA book about craft that is itself beautifully crafted, linking the world of the body and material things with the realm of mind, heart, and spirit, \u003ci\u003eA Place of My Own\u003c\/i\u003e has received extraordinary praise: —\u0026gt;  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044246143216,"sku":"9781469240749","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469240749_p0.jpg?v=1763699276","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469240749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}