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Verlag: Peterborough, New Hampshire: Bauhan Publishing, 2013, 2013
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
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Mansfield, Howard, 1957-. Dwelling in possibility: Searching for the soul of shelter. Peterborough, New Hampshire: Bauhan Publishing, 2013, 238pp., PAPERBACK, very good. INSCRIBED with regards to named recipient and SIGNED by Howard Mansfield. When we live heart and soul, we dwell. When we belong to a place, we dwell. Possession, they say, is nine-tenths of the law, but it is also what too many houses and towns lack. We are not possessed by our home places. This lost quality of dwelling the soul of buildings haunts most of our houses and our landscape. Dwelling in Possibility is a search for the ordinary qualities that make some houses a home, and some public places welcoming. - CONTENTS: Introduction : house hunting -- Dwelling in the ordinary -- Pages from an ice storm journal -- The age of clutter -- Finding heaven in the most hated house on the block -- The perilous career of a footpath -- Dwelling in destruction -- The hut on fire -- Keep the home fires burning -- The storm after the storm -- Dwelling in possibility -- Counting houses -- Sheds -- The beginner's book of dwelling. ISBN 9780872331679.