Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Air

Akihisa Masuda Courtesy of TaschenThe title says it all: Taschen’s new book celebrates a dizzying array of fantastical architectural feats, all perched high among the trees. Whether from necessity, or a desire to be closer to nature, or in pursuit of isolation from the stresses of the world below, people have dwelt in trees for thousands of years – from the tribesmen and women of Indonesia, to aristocrats such as Cosimo I de’ Medici in their custom-ma...