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Imagine a world where the art of building treehouses meets the magic of nature. Welcome to the captivating universe of the book ‘Treehouses,’ a collection of fascinating watercolors and sketches drawn by the artist Daniel Dufour.
Nature enthusiasts, this beautiful book of watercolors is made for you. Step into a world where imagination comes to life. With your childlike spirit, you will delight in discovering genuine havens of peace, secret hideaways, pirate dens, and multi-level treetop castles.
Daniel Dufour is an illustrator and watercolor artist passionate about treehouses. As a former Artistic Director of Vogue magazine, he has sketched hundreds of them. The most iconic ones are gathered in this book, awakening dreams and a sense of adventure.
This wonderful work is introduced by Sylvain Tesson, a writer and traveler. A great lover of climbing and nature, he has passionately and skillfully embraced the theme of treehouses. For each sketch, you will find the valuable expertise of Alain Laurens, an exceptional builder of nearly 500 treehouses around the world. His unyielding rule? Never drive a nail into a tree, nor even cut a branch.
Order your copy now and explore a world where creativity soars to new heights.
Alain Laurens, former president of a major advertising agency, decided to bring to life a childhood dream inspired by Italo Calvino’s The Baron in the Trees: living in trees. In 2000, he founded La Cabane Perchée, accompanied by watercolorist Daniel Dufour, who designs and draws the cabins, and carpenter Ghislain André, who builds them with a team of joiners and carpenters. Since then, he has built nearly 500 treehouses in a dozen countries, including France, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Russia, Denmark, and the United States, following one fundamental rule: never harm the tree, no nails, no cut branches.
He is the author of Treehouses, published by Éditions du Pacifique.
Daniel Dufour (1940-2017), former artistic director of Vogue France magazine, was a painter, illustrator, and cabin designer. After twelve years in the press, followed by a long career in advertising as an artistic director and creative director, he co-founded La Cabane Perchée in 2000, where he designs and illustrates projects. To date, more than 500 treehouses have been built in France and internationally.
At the same time, Daniel Dufour continues his personal creations: he produces numerous travel journals, illustrates and edits books for publishers such as Gallimard, La Martinière and Coiffard, and has been participating in an annual exhibition in Noirmoutier with the ACPIN Association for twenty years.
He is the illustrator of Treehouses published by Éditions du Pacifique.
Born in Paris in 1972, Sylvain Tesson is a French writer, adventurer, and traveler. With a degree in geography and a master’s degree in geopolitics, he travels the world on foot, by bike, or on horseback, exploring extreme territories from Siberia to Central Asia. His stories, often autobiographical, combine adventure, philosophy, and poetry, such as Dans les forêts de Sibérie (In the Forests of Siberia, winner of the Prix Médicis essay prize) and Berezina (winner of the Prix des Hussards and Prix de la page 112). Winner of the Prix Goncourt for short stories for Une vie à coucher dehors (A Life Spent Outdoors), Tesson is also renowned for his writing on nature, solitude, and life in tree houses. He contributes to numerous magazines, writes prefaces and essays, and in 2019 received the Prix Renaudot for La Panthère des neiges (The Snow Leopard).
He is the author of Tree Houses and The Trees of Paris, published by Éditions du Pacifique.
