June eleventh, 2020
In 2008, after a yr of scouting the nation for “fashionable sheds” with my great collaborator, Seattle photographer Bill Wright, and after months of interviewing shed homeowners, designers and builders, then writing 50k phrases or some ridiculous quantity of textual content, Clarkson Potter (Random Home) revealed Fashionable Sheds and Elegant Hideaways.
We beloved that e book a lot. We beloved how stunning Invoice’s pictures was, capturing the personalities and tales of every shed proprietor, to not point out distinctive geographical and architectural traits of every shed. We beloved storytelling via my interviews, conversations that dug deep into the psyche of hideaways, retreats and shelters.
Invoice and I have been really forward of our time. We noticed across the nook and we imagine that Fashionable Sheds captured a shift in how individuals considered their gardens and the once-neglected huts or sheds that stood there.
Properly, 2008 was a monetary catastrophe and the underside fell out of the actual property market. Our timing couldn’t have been predicted. Ten years later, quite a lot of copycat books emerged on {the marketplace}. And Invoice and I simply sat their and thought: Wow, we have been visionaries! The promotional machine we would have liked within the way of life media market was in its personal disaster when Fashionable Sheds was revealed. That was the period when magazines like Home & Backyard, Cottage Dwelling, Domino and others instantly folded.
Ultimately, almost 20k copies of Fashionable Sheds have been shipped to booksellers, greater than every other e book I ever wrote. However then, it went out of print a couple of years later. You’ll be able to nonetheless discover this particular title in your library shelf and thru on-line sellers of used books.
We have been fairly suprised just lately when Lyda Kay Ferree, a way of life author for a bunch of magazines within the South, contacted us to see if she might excerpt a couple of of Invoice’s photographs and interview me for an April 2020 Residence & Backyard characteristic for VIP Jackson Journal and one in every of its sister publications.
Lyda Kay undoubtedly “will get” this e book. When she contacted me to arrange the cellphone interview, she wrote: “I’m lucky to dwell in an historic district in a 100-year-old house, full with the unique potting shed with brick partitions. (It has electrical energy however no operating water.) I had saved an article about your e book as I get concepts for my potting shed.”
Properly, we had a stunning dialog about Fashionable Sheds, and Lyda Kay’s article seems right here, with pictures graciously offered by Invoice. Seeing these stunning and diminutive constructions we documented brings again a flood of reminiscences of that yr — between summer season of 2006 and summer season of 2007 — when Invoice and I produced 35 photograph shoots in 52 weeks.
Lyda Kay has shared the PDF of her article and you’ll obtain or learn it right here. We’re so happy that she reached out and helped to remind us of this particular e book and the reminiscences of making it. Thanks, Lyda Kay!
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Printed in 2008, Fashionable Sheds and Elegant Hideaways is extra related than ever!
In 2008, after a yr of scouting the nation for “fashionable sheds” with my great collaborator, Seattle photographer Bill Wright, and after months of interviewing shed homeowners, designers and builders, then writing 50k phrases or some ridiculous quantity of textual content, Clarkson Potter (Random Home) revealed Fashionable Sheds and Elegant Hideaways.
We beloved that e book a lot. We beloved how stunning Invoice’s pictures was, capturing the personalities and tales of every shed proprietor, to not point out distinctive geographical and architectural traits of every shed. We beloved storytelling via my interviews, conversations that dug deep into the psyche of hideaways, retreats and shelters.
Invoice and I have been really forward of our time. We noticed across the nook and we imagine that Fashionable Sheds captured a shift in how individuals considered their gardens and the once-neglected huts or sheds that stood there.
Ultimately, almost 20k copies of Fashionable Sheds have been shipped to booksellers, greater than every other e book I ever wrote. However then, it went out of print a couple of years later. You’ll be able to nonetheless discover this particular title in your library shelf and thru on-line sellers of used books.
We have been fairly suprised just lately when Lyda Kay Ferree, a way of life author for a bunch of magazines within the South, contacted us to see if she might excerpt a couple of of Invoice’s photographs and interview me for an April 2020 Residence & Backyard characteristic for VIP Jackson Journal and one in every of its sister publications.
Lyda Kay undoubtedly “will get” this e book. When she contacted me to arrange the cellphone interview, she wrote: “I’m lucky to dwell in an historic district in a 100-year-old house, full with the unique potting shed with brick partitions. (It has electrical energy however no operating water.) I had saved an article about your e book as I get concepts for my potting shed.”
Properly, we had a stunning dialog about Fashionable Sheds, and Lyda Kay’s article seems right here, with pictures graciously offered by Invoice. Seeing these stunning and diminutive constructions we documented brings again a flood of reminiscences of that yr — between summer season of 2006 and summer season of 2007 — when Invoice and I produced 35 photograph shoots in 52 weeks.
Lyda Kay has shared the PDF of her article and you’ll obtain or learn it right here. We’re so happy that she reached out and helped to remind us of this particular e book and the reminiscences of making it. Thanks, Lyda Kay!
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