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Living on a tree is the dream of every child, and by Patrick Hruby, Los Angeles artist who also made
often also exercise in the adulthood. Because, not the cover. Whether it’s a tea room, a restaurant or
only it takes us back to the most ancestral contact a children’s play area in fact, on a tree you can bu-
with nature, but brings with it the idea of refugie ild all the houses that immagination can conceive.
that makes the world look from another perspecti- Even more today, when the need for an enchanted
ve. Tied to the earth and suspended in the sky. A retreat, away from the metropolitan chaos is com-
tree house is under many aspects emblematic of bined with the concern for environment. Because a
architecture itself. From the dawn of civilization this house on the tree can really represent the last ba-
living space has drawn the attention of man. And if stion of a life in symbiosis with nature and - in many
in the beginngng its appealing power was given by cases - with zero impact. This volume brings toghe-
its intrinsic functionality - it offered a natural defen- ter 50 proyect from all over the world, in a series
ce against the nocturnal attacks of animals - with of different styles: from romantic to modern, from
the passage of time to prevail was its almost magi- futuristic designes to fully glass structures, able to
cal power. As illustrated by “Tree House”, the book show all the magic that surrounds us. Because live
by Taschen that looks at the f nest tree house of the between branches and leaves three feet above the
world, some designed by architects, others made trunks, can really awaken that dreaming little child
by anonymous craftsmen, along with illustrations who slepps inside of us.

“CHE SI TRATTI DI UNA SALA DA TÈ, DI UN RISTORANTE O DI UNO
SPAZIO GIOCHI PER BAMBINI, INFATTI, SU UN ALBERO SI POSSONO
COSTRUIRE TUTTE LE CASE CHE L’IMMAGINAZIONE PUÒ CONCEPIRE”.

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