Now in paperback. Luminous photographs feature appealing private residences from all corners of the world. Whether houses totter on a precipitous hilltop or lay by a gently murmuring stream, the water nearby will allow tranquil repose.

LIVING ON THE WATER (HARDBACK)

Arts & Photography

McMillian, Elizabeth

Photography & Video

Thames&Hudson

The drama and beauty of historic homes in California are studied and displayed here in a deeply researched text and over 350 stunning color and over 50 black and white photographs. Southern California's Spanish Revival monuments are pictured here-such as Hearst Castle at San Simeon, the Adamson House in Malibu, Casa del Herrero in Montecito. You will enjoy Rancho Revival landmarks like the Lummis House on Pasadena's arroyo, and Will Rogers' ranch near Pacific Palisades. These are all different portrayals of the California Colonial, its romantic past and its manner of settling into California's climate and landscape. Vernacular and religious structures built between 1769 and 1848, during the Spanish Mission and Mexican Rancho eras, gave California its unique character; a look that was subsequently fictionalized in the revival architecture produced since those colonial days. Particularly influential on residential work, the colonial styles have indulged in the rich associations with Spain's culture-employing styles and ornament from the country's provincial Andalusian, Plateresco, Churrigueresco, and Desornamentado styles and its ever-present Mudéjar crafts-or burrowed into its rustic pioneer roots and depicted as individual visions of earthy rancho haciendas.

California Colonial: The Spanish & Rancho Revival Styles (Schiffer Design Book)

History

Americas

Schiffer

Dramatic photos and fascinating text explore the rich angular ornament, towers, graphics, and exaggerated works created by architects and designers in 1920s to 1940s Los Angeles. Students and admirers of the Art Deco and Streamline styles will delight in the remarkable array of public buildings, office towers, theaters, restaurants, religious structures, apartments, hotels, and individual homes. Many of the leading architects of the era are featured, including Claude Beelman; Morgan, Walls &amp; Clements; A.C. Martin; Walker &amp; Eisen: and John &amp; Donald B. Parkinson. Celebrating populist, progressive, machine-age Los Angeles, this wonderful book showcases the two main categories of Art Deco styles: the zigzag, perpendicular Deco style of the 1920s and the aerodynamic, cubist style of the Streamline 1930s and early `40s. Allied to these are the many L.A. works known as PWA and Classical Moderne, as well as the playful Regency Moderne. With both exterior and interior views, this is an essential reference and a stunning tribute to architectural expression in Los Angeles.

Deco & Streamline Architecture in L.A.: A Moderne City Survey

Architecture

Nowhere is the experience of water more private and enlightening than from the windows of one's home, where water's reflective properties allow heart, mind, and body to unite in tranquil repose.  Whether on a precipitous cliff top or by a gently murmuring stream, houses by water are animated like no others.Fully illustrated in color with luminous photographs by internationally acclaimed photographers, Living on the Water offer a unique glimpse behind the doors of the world's most appealing private residences.  From Bali and the Mexican coast to Tahiti and the Mediterranean, 35 houses located by rivers, ports, waterfalls, ponds, and oceans reveal the unique relationship their inhabitants have with the natural setting.  Prismatic all-glass houses and neo-Renaissance villas, clapboard mills and moated castles-all offer different aspects of life on the water.With inspiring illustrations from all corners of the world, and special features on making the most of waterfront location- with terraces, private jetties, water gardens, and bridges-this is a book for everyone who lives, or wishes to live on the water.

Living on the Water

Rizzoli Universe Promotional Books

Explores thirty-five private residences around the world located by rivers, ports, waterfalls, ponds, and oceans, highlighting their place within the natural setting

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Beach Houses are the first survey of the glamorous beachfront lifestyle and distinctive architecture and design for which Southern California is so famous. The houses featured in this book are located on the coast between Malibu and Laguna and range from common generic types-- New England, Mediterranean and ranch designs-- to high-style homes by well-known architects such as John Lautner, Richard Meier, Frank Gehry, and others. Beaches and beach houses have played an important part in the historical and cultural development of Southern California, beginning in the 1880s when land speculators wanted to attract home-buyers, and especially during the 1920s when the motion picture community and other nouveau riche built lavish houses and clubs on the shore. Architectural writer Elizabeth McMillian has selected a stunning array of Southern California beach residences that receive high marks for appearance, comfort, and sensitivity to the environment. Every beach house designer faces similar constraints and challenges: small lots, low-key street facades, enclosed sidewalls, narrow paths to the ocean, and glass-walled and terraced oceanfronts. If a beach house is designed with sensitivity, living on the beach can be an experience that is close to perfection. Photographer Melba Levick has dramatically captured the California beach house in its enviable seaside context and has focused on interiors that bring the sights and sounds of the ocean into the home by way of glass walls, open courtyards, terraces, and towers. Interviews with the architects, interior designers, and owners of these fabulous California houses reveal the inspirational dimension embodied in this special architecture. "A beach house is often the fulfillment of a dream, as well as a quest for the sensual varieties of site, sound, and touch-- the opportunity to feel gentle sea breezes, warm to the reassuring rays of the sun, and hear the lulling, rhythmic sound of wind and waves," explains McMillian.

Beach Houses: From Malibu to Laguna

Rizzoli

The Spanish-style architecture of Southern California's seaside estates, canyon villas, and courtyard bungalows is central to its romantic image, one that has traditionally evoked a Mediterranean paradise. The details of this inexhaustively rich style-- ornate wrought iron and wood balconies, colorful tiles, graceful arches, and palm-dotted gardens-- reflect the region's Spanish, Mexican, and southwestern history and culture as well as its popular outdoor lifestyle. This book showcases Southern California's most historically significant and beautifully preserved Spanish-revival houses of this century. Twenty-one private homes built between 1922 and 1991 are featured in stunning color photography that captures exterior and interior architectural details, Spanish and Mexican antique furnishings and folk art, and lush landscaping and tiled fountains. Among these are the Adamson House in Malibu, with its extraordinary collection of custom tile from Malibu Potteries; the contemporary Greenberg House in Brentwood, by Ricardo Legorreta; The Andalusia Courtyard Apartments in Hollywood; and Casa Pacifica, the former home of Richard Nixon, overlooking the ocean in San Clemente. Brief narratives highlight the history of each building and its design influences on the Spanish-revival movement in California. The Spanish revival grew in popularity around the turn of the century when many young American architects traveled to Spain, Italy, and Mexico, bringing back sketches and, as the foreword notes, romantic memories of "graceful foliage...small Indian towns...tiled dome and rococo towers." Hundreds of Spanish-style houses, apartments, and bungalows were built throughout Southern California in the following decades, many of them commissioned for movie stars such as Charlie Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino. The Spanish revival is marked by two main phases: the mission revival, which incorporates the white stucco, cloistered patios, tile roofs, and exposed-beam ceilings typical of eighteenth-century California missions; and the more elaborate Mediterranean revival, influenced by Spanish and Italian Renaissance sources, eighteenth-century Spanish plateresque and churrigueresque forms, and Moorish-Andalusian styles.

Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente

Nowhere is the experience of water more private and enlightening than from the windows of one's home, where water's reflective properties allow heart, mind, and body to unite in tranquil repose. Whether on a precipitous cliff top or by a gently murmuring stream, houses by water are animated like no others. Fully illustrated in color with luminous photographs by internationally acclaimed photographers, Living on the Water offer a unique glimpse behind the doors of the world's most appealing private residences. From Bali and the Mexican coast to Tahiti and the Mediterranean, 35 houses located by rivers, ports, waterfalls, ponds, and oceans reveal the unique relationship their inhabitants have with the natural setting. Prismatic all-glass houses and neo-Renaissance villas, clapboard mills and moated castles-all offer different aspects of life on the water. With inspiring illustrations from all corners of the world, and special features on making the most of waterfront location- with terraces, private jetties, water gardens, and bridges-this is a book for everyone who lives, or wishes to live on the water.

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LIVING ON THE WATER (HARDBACK)

California Colonial: The Spanish & Rancho Revival Styles (Schiffer Design Book)

Deco & Streamline Architecture in L.A.: A Moderne City Survey

Living on the Water

Living on the Water

Beach Houses: From Malibu to Laguna

Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses from Santa Barbara to San Clemente

Living on the Water

Living on the Water