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This classic volume, now available at a lower price, showcases
jet-set homes designed by the likes of Neutra, Frey, Lautner, and
others. Palm Springs is famous as a mecca for the international jet
set. But the city has also attracted its share of eccentrics and
mavericks who have left an architectural legacy that remains
unsurpassed for its originality and international influence. This
book examines the impact that architects and designers have had on
the desert oasis, primarily from the 1940s to the 1960s. Palm
Springs Modern features examples of mid-century modernism at its
most glamorous, some of them the residences of prominent figures
who commissioned weekend getaways in the desert, including Frank
Sinatra, Walter Annenberg, and Raymond Loewy. Adele Cygelman's
insightful text, a foreword by architectural historian Joseph Rosa,
contemporary colour photography by David Glomb, and the celebrated
archival black-and-white work of Julius Shulman all capture the
distinctly modern allure of America's famed desert playground.
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California Splendor (Hardcover)
Kathryn Masson; Photographs by David Glomb; Foreword by Bob Gale
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R1,805
R1,427
Discovery Miles 14 270
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A luxurious presentation in all-new photography of the most
splendid estates and mansions of the Golden State. California
Splendor, a lavish, beautifully produced, large-format volume,
presents iconic California houses dating from the Leland Stanford
Mansion in Sacramento of 1857 to publishing magnate William
Randolph Hearst's palatial castle in San Simeon, completed after
decades of construction in 1947. The book is comprehensive in its
treatment, presenting to the reader a rediscovery and fresh
exploration of the state's great architectural offerings and
showcasing the very best, in styles ranging from Spanish Colonial
Revival, English Revival, and Mission Revival to Adobe, Monterey
Colonial, and Italianate Victorian. Lovingly featured are such
magnificent homes as the Arts and Crafts masterpiece of architects
Charles and Henry Greene-the Gamble House-a work of subtle
refinement and mysterious charm built for a Cincinnati businessman
who longed for warm summer breezes and the fragrance of orange
blossoms. The reader also finds here the extraordinary Filoli House
and Garden, the Henry Huntington Mansion, the Spreckels Mansion,
Casa del Herrero, and Carolands, to name only a few. More potent
and powerful in our imagination than any one house is the dream,
the aspiration to happiness and grandeur embodied by them all-a
dream brought down to earth and to which we have been invited in
California Splendor.
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