The best-selling author of Sante Fe Style heads west again with this celebration of the crafts, traditions, ceremonies, and life-styles of American Indians. A comprehensive directory provides information on museums, galleries, shops, events, and artists. 400 full-color photographs.

Native America: Arts, Traditions, and Celebrations

Politics & Social Sciences

Mather, Christine

Social Sciences

Clarkson/Potter

The best-seller that presents the living traditions and the design highlights of Western life. Collector's treasures of cowboy gear, leather goods, rugs and textiles, and even 1950s "Cowboyana" are here in rich detail, along with adobe homes, mountain cabins, and historic ranches; round-ups and rodeos; and wagon wheels and movie stills. Full-color photographs.

True West: Arts, Traditions & Celebrations

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

The best-selling author of Santa Fe Style, Native America, and True West celebrates the warmth and style of a Santa Fe Christmas. Mather includes a sampler of holiday recipes from Christmas Burritos (with red and green chili sauce) to Chicago Punch and Empanadas. Full-color photographs.

Christine Mather's Santa Fe Christmas

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Santa Fe-style decorating is a coast-to-coast trend. Hundreds of thousands have scoured Christine Mather’s previous books, eager to incorporate Santa Fe design elements into their own homes. Now, in Santa Fe Houses, Mather combines concrete and practical home-decorating suggestions with the beautiful photographs of her longtime collaborator, Jack Parsons, creating an invaluable guide for anyone interested in building, decorating, or remodeling a home in Santa Fe style. Santa Fe Houses draws inspiration from the four traditional Native American elements—fire, earth, water, and air—and shows how they can be used to wonderful effect in kitchens and dining rooms, entry-ways and living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, porches, and patios. Along the way, Mather showcases furniture, rugs, lighting, hardware, tiles, shutters, and other expressions of the Santa Fe look, and ends with a comprehensive directory of sources.

Santa Fe Houses

Woods, Sharon

Crafts & Hobbies

Potter Style

Santa Fe Style

Since the opening of the Santa Fe Trail in 1821, the town of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been a rich source of original American design. Santa Fe Style explores the beginnings and current forms of this exciting design tradition, from the ancient inspiration of the Canyon de Chelly to the innovations of Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporary passive-solar architects. The elements of style for which the area is known-- warm adobe brick, simple hand-carved furnishings, rough-hewn beams, Indian pottery, Navajo rugs, and colorful folk sculpture-- are all beautifully photographed in over 450 illustrations. A community of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, Santa Fe has had an impact on American culture far greater than its size. The Spanish colonists who founded the town in 1608 adapted their European tradition to the Pueblo Indian building materials and methods, creating an architecture that is unique in the world. The trade routes and the opening of the railroad brought ranchers and farmers from the East; and spectacular surroundings of mountains and high desert drew twentieth-century writers and artists from D. H. Lawrence to Georgia O'Keeffe. Each new wave of settlers added to the Santa Fe legend and the Santa Fe style. Here is not only the romance of Santa Fe, but the irresistible appeal of its lifestyle-- a casual elegance enlivened by a dynamic, ever-changing mixture of the old and the new, the West and the East, the plain and the sophisticated. In addition to the wide range of design ideas offered by the illustrations is a list of sources directing readers to Santa Fe merchants and services.

Photography & Video

Rizzoli

Since the opening of the Santa Fe Trail in 1821, the town of Santa Fe, New Mexico, has been a rich source of original American design. Santa Fe Style explores the beginnings and current form of this exciting design tradition, from the ancient inspiration of the Canyon de chelly to the innovations of Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporary passive-solar architects. The elements of style for which the area is known--warm adobe brick, simple hand-carved furnishings, rough-hewn beams, Indian potter, Navajo rugs, and colorful folk sculpture--are all beautifully photographed in over 450 illustrations. A community of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, Santa Fe has had an impact on American culture far greater than its size. The Spanish colonists who founded the town in 1608 adapted their European tradition to the Pueblo Indian building materials and methods, creating an architecture that is unique in the world. The trade routes and the opening of the railroad brought ranchers and farmers from the East; and spectacular surroundings of mountains and high desert drew twentieth-century writers and artists from D.H.Lawrence to Georgia O'Keeffe. Each new wave of settlers added to the Santa Fe legend and the Santa Fe style. Here is not only the romance of Santa Fe, but the irresistible appeal of its lifestyle--a casual elegance enlivened by a dynamic, ever-changing mixture of the old and the new, the West and the East, the plain and the sophisitcated. In addition to the wide range of design ideas offered by the illustrations is a list of sources directing readers to Santa Fe merchants and services.

Baroque to Folk (English and Spanish Edition)

Museum of New Mexico Pr

The author of Santa Fe Style shares the Christmas traditions of her hometown, capturing the inimitable spirit of Santa Fe in December in over one hundred full-color photographs of holiday scenes. Christmastime traditions highlighted in this little book include plaza performances of the folk plays Las Posadas and Los Pastores, and at the Pueblos, Matachinas dancers and snow kachinas. Santa Fe holiday decor includes wreaths fashioned from ristras, streets lit up by farolitos and luminarias. The author includes a sampler of local recipes, from burritos (with red and green chile sauce) to posole and biscochitos.

Santa Fe Christmas

Religion & Spirituality

Museum of New Mexico Press

Colonial frontiers: Art and life in Spanish New Mexico : the Fred Harvey Collection

Book by Mather, Christine;Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.);International Folk Art Foundation

Museum of International Folk Art (N.M.)

International Folk Art Foundation

Ancient City Press

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Books by Mather, Christine

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Native America: Arts, Traditions, and Celebrations

True West: Arts, Traditions & Celebrations

Christine Mather's Santa Fe Christmas

Santa Fe Houses

Santa Fe Style

Santa Fe Style

Baroque to Folk (English and Spanish Edition)

Santa Fe Christmas

Colonial frontiers: Art and life in Spanish New Mexico : the Fred Harvey Collection