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Adobe Houses : Homes of Sun and Earth by Kathryn Masson (2018, Hardcover)

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About this product

Product Identifiers

PublisherRizzoli International Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-100789335735

ISBN-139780789335739

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038440867

Product Key Features

Book TitleAdobe Houses : Homes of Sun and Earth

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicInterior Design / General, Decorating, Buildings / Residential

IllustratorYes

GenreArchitecture, House & Home

AuthorKathryn Masson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight56.1 Oz

Item Length10.3 in

Item Width10.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Reviews"The architectural style of California's original homes is showcased through 23 restored adobe properties from San Luis Obispo to Santa Barbara." -- California Style Magazine "I would really like to get my hands on this book that presents twenty-three Californian homes, showing both interiors and gardens. Adobe houses with whitewashed walls and exposed beams ... yes please." -- Lunch & Latte

Photographed byGlomb, David

SynopsisAlluring adobe-brick houses of California here hint at the charms of a bygone age while offering, at the same time, a vision for home today. Adobe residences from the Spanish and Mexican eras were the original California houses. Architects, designers, builders, and homeowners today, as in the past, look to their simple, utilitarian features--such as plain, whitewashed walls, beamed ceilings, and intimate open-air courtyards--and try to emulate their forms to capture the charm of a romanticized past. Leading architects of style movements such as the Spanish Colonial Revival traveled to California and studied its extensive eighteenth and nineteenth century adobes firsthand as the foundation of their education in California architecture. Made of earth and organic matter, such as straw, adobe is among the oldest of building materials and has been used throughout the world. From the 1770s to the present, adobe buildings such as churches, forts (presidios), mills, residences, warehouses, and stores have been a most important and informative part of California's architectural heritage. Adobe Houses presents twenty-three homes, made from adobe, showing interiors and gardens from these often quiet masterworks, ranging from Casa Boronda of 1817 in Monterey to Casa del Oso, a contemporary manifestation, built in Santa Barbara in 2000 that reveals the intriguing range of possibilities available to us when building in this traditional form today.