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

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Manufacturer: Rizzoli International Publications

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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.



PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.37097949
EAN: 9780847818501
ISBN: 0847818500
Label: Rizzoli International Publications
Manufacturer: Rizzoli International Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1996-05-15
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Release Date: 1996-05-15
Studio: Rizzoli International Publications


ACCESSORIES:

• 3-D Home Interiors Deluxe 2.0


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Red-Tile Style
• Santa Barbara Style
• Pure California: 35 Inspiring Houses in the New California Tradition
• California Romantica: Spanish Colonial and Mission-Style Houses
• Tuscan & Andalusian Reflections


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Awesome -
This is a great book full of pictures, and spanish ideas. My company, Jeff Andrews Custom Home Design Inc. (www.jeffandrewsdesigns.com) are working on a remodel project in the Hollywood Hills. The 1920 structure is being re-modeled so that we keep the "Casa California" look and feel. Once we are finished, you will think the home was built that way in 1920, and its help from this book that took us there.

Beautiful! -
This book is a stunning historical account of the rise of the Spanish Mission architectural style in California. The pictures are vibrant and beautiful and the commentary is interesting and appropriate, but limited in order to let the pictures speak for themselves. A lovely coffee-table book.

Fantastic Book! -
For design ideas, this book will cater to mostly high-end clients but lets face it; most people who do any real custom homes are high-end clients, regardless of the architectural style.

The photographs are beautiful and the book covers a broad array of Spanish influenced interpretations. I would liked to have seen more examples of wrought iron work and additional close-up photos of some of the design details but overall, this is a fantastic book and an exceptional bargain at Amazon's price.

Casa California evaluation -
This book is a very useful handbook for any Architectural or interior designer, it contains a lot of ideas a lot of which (in my openion) are easy to be implemented and does not cost so much.

Best Regards
Tareq Azzam

Casa California: Spanish-Style Houses From Santa Barbara to San Clemente -
Ideal for learning about the architecture and decortating styles of Spanish style homes. The photgraphs are beautiful. I will rely on this book when I design my new home.

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