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Santa Barbara Style
The architectural identity of the wealthy southern California town Santa Barbara is explored with emphasis on the architects who designed its major buildings, estates and historic homes. 200 illustrations.
Hunt Country Style
Through full-color photography, 'Hunt Country Style' features a beloved architectural tradition that is as much cultural as it is architectural, a tradition rooted in the legacy of the Colonial-era horse and hunt culture.
California Splendor
A luxurious presentation in all-new photography of the most splendid estates and mansions of the Golden State. California Splendor, a lavish, beautifully produced, large-format volume, presents iconic California houses dating from the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento of 1857 to publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst’s palatial castle in San Simeon, completed after decades of construction in 1947. The book is comprehensive in its treatment, presenting to the reader a rediscovery and fresh exploration of the state’s great architectural offerings and showcasing the very best, in styles ranging from Spanish Colonial Revival, English Revival, and Mission Revival to Adobe, Monterey Co...
The Carriage Journal
Gimme a Break {a discussion of the various types of Breaks} by KEN WHEELING Carriage vs. Bicycle {reprinted from The Livery Stable, 1896} Things 'That Go "Boom'." [learning about horse-drawn artillery}by A.J. & JENNIFER SINGLETON
Napa Valley Style
An illustrated tour of Napa Valley houses and gardens showcases the region's mansions, villas, cottages, barns, and wineries as created by such architects as Michael Graves, William Turnbull, and Herzog.
The Carriage Journal
A Carriage Restoratiofromn Shop in Andalusia [ the story of Carruajes Alba} by KEN WHEELING Horse Clothing reprinted from MOSEMAN'S ILLUSTRATED GUIDE Americans in Australia (driving a Cobb & Co. coach} by GLORIA AUSTIN
The California House
The aura and romance of Old California lives on in this treasury of inviting homes. The California House presents the magic of the "golden state," that land of infinite promise and dreams, the most tangible expression of which can be found in the homes built by early California dreamers. Here domestic visions of tranquility and repose were inventively realized—in stucco or stone, wood and wrought iron, plaster, and glass and tile. Spanish Colonial Revival–style homes with elaborate wrought-iron window grilles, romantic, shadowy interiors, and lush courtyard gardens stand beside other particularly Californian architectural wonders such as the San Francisco Victorian Painted Lady, the Mont...
Sculpting Space
Berkus's custom residences bring to life the personalities and programmes of their clients. Rather than reiterating a signature style, Berkus approaches the design of a home as a collaborative process. Together the client and architect explore the needs
Sonoma Valley Style
Sonoma Valley: the name alone evokes a wonderful sense of warmth, beauty, and magic. On hearing it, one envisions landscapes of sparkling rivers, verdant, vineyard-banked hillsides, and sunshine―in short, paradise. Having had this dream, those lured by the spell of Sonoma arrive to discover a place far more spectacular than imagined. In Sonoma Valley Style, author Kathryn Masson and award-winning photographer Steven Brooke offer us an intimate tour of this extraordinary place. By way of brilliant, full-color photography and lucid prose, we gain privileged entry into the stunning houses and easy lifestyle of this lush Eden. Sonoma Valley Style illustrates, in full color, extraordinary, restored and lived-in Mexican-period adobes, 19th-century Victorian farmhouses, early 20th-century craftsman bungalows, modern “California” ranch houses, and contemporary residences on the cutting edge of design.
Early Homes
Now in its sixth year, Early Homes is a biannual special edition that focuses on the period 1690—1850 and it's revivals, including Colonial and Neoclassical design. Each issue contains lavish photos and plenty of product sources.
