CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/17/2019

'Cabin Fever' is one of the coolest, most giftable books on our list this year

From American frontier log cabins to alpine huts, emergency shelters, slave housing, fire lookouts, ice shacks, leisure cottages, A-frames, geodesic domes and sustainable micro cabins, every possible fascinating, glamorous, pragmatic and ingenious permutation of the North American rustic dwelling is covered in this jam-packed exhibition catalogue / scholarly volume / lifestyle book for the smart, DIY-design set. Historical photographs, diagrams and texts are combined with new photography, commissioned essays and artworks to create one of the coolest, most giftable books on our list this year. The concepts of Shelter, Utopia and Porn are explored in particular over more than 300 pages in approximately 60 distinct sections, beautifully designed and printed on an assortment of deluxe, coated and uncoated papers. Featured photograph, by Richard Johnson, is "Ice Hut #556, Cochrane, Ghost Lake, Alberta, Canada" (2011).