California, a Guidebook

Travel

Delehanty, Randolph

United States

Harcourt

New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence focuses on the interiors, furnishings, art collections, and gardens of a handful of creative people in New Orleans in the 1990s. Dreamers and urban pioneers, they included bohemian artists, artisans, architects, preservationists, activists, antiquarians, restaurateurs, and teachers, all living outside the American mainstream. They tolerated crumbling plaster, exposed lathe, and sagging galleries in exchange for communal festivity and joie de vivre. Photographer Richard Sexton documented how and where they lived; what they hoarded, collected, and worshipped. In this second edition, historian Randolph Delehanty weaves together the history of New Orleans from the fragments he saw in those photographs. The authors explore in words and images how the combination of climate, a strongly European and Catholic culture, African influences, and the revelry of Mardi Gras have created a modern ambience unlike that of any other city in America. Much has changed in New Orleans over the 30 years since this book first appeared, but far more has stayed the same. The book celebrates the joyous spirit of this distinctive culture, an inspiration to everyone who pursues the art of living.

New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence

Schiffer

San Francisco: Walks and tours in the Golden Gate city

DIAL PRESS

Written for the general reader, this oversize volume (10x13.25") presents 237 full-page color reproductions of pieces selected from the Ogden Collection of Sourthern Art, which currently numbers some 1,200 works, including oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, sculptures, and photographs dating from the early 18th century to the present. Diverse selected works are arranged by theme and chronologically within each section. The text traces artistic trends and movements in the region, examining not only southern art but the vision of the South that emerges from that art. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Louisiana State Univ Pr

The lush, seductive, nostalgic elegance of New Orleans' streets, parks, and public buildings, as well as the fanciful, nuanced interiors of some of its most beautiful private homes and gardens, are insightfully revealed in this comprehensive photographic homage to the "Venice of North America" Over 200 full-color photographs and an informative, evocative text capture the public face and the private soul of a city perennially fascinating to visitors and residents alike.

Photography & Video

Chronicle Books+

Presents fourteen tours of San Francisco, and includes detailed maps and suggestions on parking, public transit, restaurants, lodging, shopping, and entertainment

San Francisco: The Ultimate Guide (Completely Revised and Expanded)

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Chronicle Books LLC.

The ultimate guide to the ultimate Southern destination, Randolph Delehanty's Ultimate Guide to New Orleans unfolds this elegant town with a wealth of informed recommendations, in-depth walking tours, fascinating histories, and vivid descriptions. Taking a new approach to this city steeped in centuries, the author of the oft-consulted and much-praised San Francisco: The Ultimate Guide explores New Orleans's meandering alleys and glamorous promenades on foot, offering, as always, a ready opinion and a keen insider's eye for interesting details. Helpful maps and notes on where to stay and what to see, combined with local anecdotes, culinary hot spots, and special interest tours, make this book the key to savoring the Crescent City's many pleasures.

Randolph Delehanty's Ultimate Guide to New Orleans

History

Americas

In the Victorian Style

In its first paperback edition, this seminal work on the hallmark architectural style of San Francisco is complete with a newly designed cover. Randolph Delehanty's authoritative, accessible text, paired with Richard Sexton's brilliant photographs, traces the development of Victorian architecture and tells the story of how these elaborate yet fundamentally modern homes were conceived and built. Extravagantly illustrated with scores of full-color photographs and line drawings, In the Victorian Style is not only the definitive sourcebook for architects, designers, and owners of Victorians everywhere, but a compelling look at the historical and cultural climate that shaped this eloquent architectural style that is still very much a part of our daily lives.

Architecture

For more than a century the refined but playful elegance of Victorian houses has helped define the style and identity of the city by the bay. San Francisco Victorians showcases the variety and charm of the city's signature houses. This generous but portable survey features the most picturesque of the Victorians and exquisite Queen Annes, including classically restored marvels and the more fancifully decorated "painted ladies." Focusing on breathtaking exteriors and finely turned details from homes in all of the city's neighborhoods, and with a fun, informative text by noted Victorian architecture authority Randolph Delehanty, San Francisco Victorians is an enchanting and colorful look at these enduring beauties.

San Francisco Victorians

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California, a Guidebook

New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence

San Francisco: Walks and tours in the Golden Gate city

Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection

New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence

San Francisco: The Ultimate Guide (Completely Revised and Expanded)

Randolph Delehanty's Ultimate Guide to New Orleans

In the Victorian Style

In the Victorian Style

San Francisco Victorians