Shows murals of animals and celebrities, as well as murals featuring political, religious, ethnic, and sports themes

The big picture: Murals of Los Angeles

Levick, Melba

Thames and Hudson

Living in the Sun: The Spanish Mediterranean Islands : Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, Formentera

Arts & Photography

Andrews, Colman

Photography & Video

Chronicle Books LLC.

Provides insights on twenty natural hot springs and fitness spas of California, including treatments, price ranges, and directions

Beautiful Spas and Hot Springs of California

Young, Stanley

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Basking in sunlight and coursing with energy, Mexico enjoys a unique relationship with color-inspired, intrinsic, inseparable from life itself. This vibrance sings forth in the pages of Mexicolor, the collaborative project of an artist, a photographer, and a writer all in love with the brilliant displays of color seen everywhere in Mexico. Walls washed flamingo pink on top, deep matte blue on the bottom. A green flatbed truck heaped with orange marigolds. A sea of colorful skeletons at a Day of the Dead fiesta. The radiant reds, yellows, purples, and greens of the fruits and vegetables at el mercado. Mexicolor explores Mexico high and low, from colonial towns to dazzling beaches, from traditional ?workshops to contemporary interiors, from open markets to extraordinary homes and inns, uncovering the colorful artistry that permeates everyday life across this vast nation. Mexicolor is an ideal resource for anyone looking to brighten a home, and a beautiful picture book brimming with imagination, creative ideas, and pure pleasure.?

Mexicolor: The Spirit of Mexican Design

COHAN, TONY

Takahashi, Masako

History & Criticism

Chronicle Books+

Shows murals of animals and celebrities, as well as murals featuring political, religious, ethnic, and sports themes

The Big Picture: Murals of Los Angeles

NEW YORK GRAPHIC SOCIETY

Color photographs with accompanying text celebrate twenty Japanese-style gardens while discussing their history, evolution, patronage, and design

Japanese-Style Gardens of the Pacific West Coast

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Brown, Kendall

Gardening & Landscape Design

Rizzoli

In the early 20th-century, architects designing houses for the balmy climate of Southern California were influenced by the style of the villas and palaces that dominated the architecture of Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and Morocco, and a few other North African locales. The resulting style-noted for its pleasing combination of simplicity and dignity, for its often asymetrical undecorated facades-reflected romantic, European forms, and yet distinguished itself by adding American ingenuity. Prime examples of this include Villa Narcissa, widely celebrated for its unimposing grandeur, and Casa Leon, with its stunning hillside location and ocean views. Included here are residences by noted architects such as Julia Morgan, Bertram Goodhue, Addison Mizner, George Washington Smith, Wallace Neff, and others. While some of the houses are lavishly decorated villas with lush landscaping, others are more spare, creations; what all these interpretations of the California Mediterranean style have in common is an indoor-outdoor approach to living.

California Mediterranean

Appleton, Marc

Architecture

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