`A great place to go Before you become a shedworker, as it offers all sorts of useful information about suppliers, designs, fittings and insulation.'---Victoria Summerley, The Independent
`Not only satisfies the need for eye-candy and an entertaining read, the site also has useful, practical information for anyone wanting to set up in the back garden.'---Lita Das Gupta, Daily Telegraph
`In 2008, particularly for architecture, I found... Shedworking were finding the coolest stuff fastest.'
Lloyd Alter, Treehugger
`The thinking sheddie's blog'---Lucia Adams, the Times
`Encyclopaedic'---Simon Busch, Financial Times
Shedworking is an inspirational illustrated handbook which no shed owner will want to be without.
The book features the shedworkers and shedbuilders from around the world who are leading the alternative workplace revolution, and looks at why shedworking is a greener way of working, improves work-life balance and accelerates your productivity.
Inspired by the author's website, www.shedworking .co.uk, internationally acclaimed for the groundbreaking scale of its architectural coverage, this book is bursting with previously unpublished images of garden offices and shedlike atmospheres; offices on roofs, sheds inside `traditional' offices and on wheels, cutting edge Le Corbusier designed models for the back garden, all-glass shed offices and buildings assembled from living trees.
Along the Way it offers a whistle-stop tour of famous sheds from pliny the Younger's summerhouse and the retreats of classical composers Grieg and Mahler to twenty-first century fantasy writer Neil Gaiman's gazebo.
In short, Shedworking offers an inspiring manifesto for those wanting to change their working lives for the better and go to work in the garden.
Featuring shedworkers and shedbuilders from around the world who are leading the alternative workplace revolution, Shedworking looks at why having a shed office is a greener way of working, improves the work-life balance, and accelerates one's productivity. Inspired by the author‘s Shedworking website, which has been internationally acclaimed for the groundbreaking scale of its architectural coverage, the book features many previously unpublished images of garden offices and shedlike atmospheres: offices on roofs, sheds inside "traditional" offices, and even sheds on wheels, as well as cutting-edge Le Corbusier-designed models for the back garden, all-glass shed offices, and buildings "built" using living trees. Along the way it offers a whistle-stop tour of famous sheds from Pliny the Younger‘s summerhouse and the retreats of 19th-century composers Edvard Grieg and Gustav Mahler to award-winning 21st-century fantasy writer Neil Gaiman's gazebo. In short, Shedworking offers a manifesto for those wanting to change their working lives for the better and go to work in the garden.
