Exceptional Treehouses

by Alain Laurens, Ghislain Andre, La Cabane Percheé

In Exceptional Treehouses , author and treehouse builder Alain Laurens reveals 30 gorgeous treehouse structures, 25 of which are entirely new creations, all illustrated with Daniel Dufour’s beautiful watercolors as well as photographs by Jacques Delacroix, commissioned specially for this book.

As in his first book, Treehouse Living, Laurens demonstrates his commitment to sustainable building and environmentalism with his designs, all executed with ecological ideals in mind. In 2000 Laurens started his company, La Cabane Perchée, to design and build treehouses around Europe. Each house takes into account the local environment, as well as the tree in which the structure stands, and the photographs show details of how the treehouses are constructed without driving nails into any part of the host tree.

Exceptional Treehouses is the perfect inspiration for treehouse lovers, eco-friendly architects, and enthusiastic amateurs.

Genres: Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[max]

Coffee table book at its best. Big, not too fat, with beautiful pictures of amazing treehouses -- not the kind of makeshift thing you would build as a kid with lumber appropriated from nearby houses under construction in your neighborhood, but more refined, elegant structures. If only I had one of these places in which to spend hours up among the leaves, doing nothing except reading....

[Sifuego · Rating 3 out of 5]

Liked it, altough on some notes the little stories in between go a little to far in describing how awesome it is. Sleeping in a treehouse with a bathroom and furniture doesn't make you a hero for surviving a night in it. You have fucking furniture in there silly (rich) people

[Nate · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm going to build one.

[Octobanana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice! Had no idea there were such nice tree houses out there. Lacabanepercee.com

Sketches at the end was the most interesting text in the book.

[Charlene]

Um. Treehouses.