{"product_id":"coffee-table-book-of-christmas-lights-hardcover","title":"Coffee Table Book of: Christmas Lights (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoffee Table Book of: Christmas Lights is a large-format coffee table book about the lights of Christmas, printed edge to edge in colour, one picture to a page and the widest carried across two. It runs from snowy streets and the Christmas market to candlelit windows, the tree and the northern lights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt opens on lit streets and snowy eaves: a cobbled lane strung with fir garlands and small warm lights, an iron street lantern capped with snow, a white church tower with an onion dome above snowy roofs, and cottages beside a frozen pond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the Christmas market: a timber stall shut under fresh snow, a market seen from high above around its lit tree, a wooden Christmas pyramid as tall as a house, and a stone arcade hung with garlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen gingerbread villages: a house piped with icing dots and swirls, a chapel with a red sugar window, and little houses glowing on a windowsill. Then candlelit windows: a carved candle arch on a deep sill, a single candle in a cottage window, a paper star lamp in a frosted pane, and bare cherry branches in blossom on a winter sill.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Advent: a fir wreath of violet and rose-pink candles, a Christingle orange with its candle, and a wreath hung from a beam on red ribbons. Then glass, paper and straw: a red bauble painted with snowflakes, old glass ornaments shaped as fruits and nuts, woven paper hearts, paper stars and a himmeli of golden straw.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the tree: a small fir lit with wax candles and hung with apples, gilded walnuts and pretzels, and a branch of old-fashioned coloured bulbs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen bridges and harbours: a stone bridge strung with lights over a still canal, and a fishing boat hung with lights in a snowy harbour. Then mountain villages: timber chalets below steep peaks and a white chapel alone on a snowy hillside. Toward the end, the northern lights: green curtains over red cottages by a fjord, and a small red cabin in deep snow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShort notes run through the book; none is a recipe. They are about the season's lights, markets and customs rather than about the pictures: who could once afford beeswax candles, how long one Polish city has been making gingerbread, where the candle arch comes from, and what a guild's small tree of 1570 was hung with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrinted in full colour on heavy 150gsm coated paper at 216 x 279 mm (8.5 x 11 inches), as a hardcover with the art printed on the case.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Pine Editions","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":68148584120624,"sku":"9671456004587","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9671456004587.jpg?v=1792631683","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/coffee-table-book-of-christmas-lights-hardcover","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}