The California Casa
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This sumptuous and comprehensive volume embraces one of the most beloved house forms, the Spanish Colonial Revival, presenting at once a lavish portrait of the style as well as the definitive statement on the subject through more than three hundred color photographs. The Spanish style in architecture encompasses facets from a vast array of traditions, many of which are in evidence in these extraordinary houses. Elements include thickset, whitewashed stucco walls, deeply recessed doors, lushly planted courtyard gardens, intricate and colorful tile work, telescoping towers inset with Juliet balconies, elaborately traced wrought-iron window grilles, and richly appointed interiors heightened by drama in light and shadow cast by moody pendant lamps and low-burning fires. The houses featured are the very best of the type, both famous and little-known, and showcase the work of architects such as George Washington Smith, Bertram Goodhue, Wallace Neff, and Paul Williams, from the early twentieth century, to the work of contemporary practitioners, including Marc Appleton, Michael Burch Architects, and others. These homes are a fantasy for living made real in the Southern California sun. Review: Inspiration book - Building one now wanted inspiration Nice book wish it had more pics of styles but it’s nice. Looks great on table. Price was nice on sale. Review: Awesome Book! - Love this book. Has great photos all the way through. Highly recommend.
| Best Sellers Rank | #143,948 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #9 in Vernacular Architecture (Books) #106 in Residential Architecture #440 in Home Decorating (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 183 Reviews |
K**L
Inspiration book
Building one now wanted inspiration Nice book wish it had more pics of styles but it’s nice. Looks great on table. Price was nice on sale.
R**W
Awesome Book!
Love this book. Has great photos all the way through. Highly recommend.
Y**Z
Great book
California Casa is just a beautiful book. The pictures are amazing and it definitely gives you an emotion of calm and wanting to have your home revamped. Great coffee table book. Your guest will want to sit and view the book.
V**F
Good, not great
A handsome and wide-ranging book.....some very good restorations of classic Southern Ca Casas and the photos are exellent, especially of tile work and architectural detailing. Some mistakes: Fornasetti Chandelier is actually Fortuny-the Fornasetti bureau on the previous page was the obviuos reference, a dining room called a living room, etc. Niggling but sloppy. Worst problem, not not the author's fault: almost every house had mediocre garden design and poor maintenance thus not showing the houses to best advantage. Even more disasterous: without exception every house needed the talents of a good interior designer. All those beautiful rooms saddled with poor colors,fabrics,furnishings. Even for the sake of staying in "period" much more needed to be done with scale,placement,style
M**I
To turn dreams into reality
Talk about fortuitous! My daughter is in the process of remodelling a stucco farmhouse in the country, aiming to turn it into a little early 20th Century California bungalow. Looking on Amazon for something completely different, she happened to see "The California Casa" and said she'd like to have the book for Christmas. So I ordered it. And of course couldn't wait for Christmas to give it to her. Both she and I have spent hours paging through the gorgeous photos and choosing which ones will best fit her dream house. A tile maker, she has drawn inspiration from rhe creative tile work that is shown in the houses.
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