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Acclaimed architect Gil Schafer illustrates how he blends classical
architecture, interior decoration, and landscape to create homes
with a feeling of history. As a traditional architect, Gil Schafer
specializes in building new "old" houses as well as renovating
historic homes. His work takes the best of American historic and
classical architecture-its detailed moldings and harmonious
proportions-and updates it, retaining its character and detail
while simultaneously reworking it to be more in tune with the way
we live now-comfortable, practical, family-oriented. In his first
book, Schafer covers the three essential cornerstones of creating a
great traditional house: architecture, landscape, and decoration.
He discusses the important interplay between the interior
architecture and the fabrics, furniture, and wall treatments.
In-depth profiles build on these essays, including Schafer's own
new "old" house in the Hudson Valley; the renovation of a historic
home in Nashville designed by Charles Platt in 1915; and the
restoration of a magnificent 1843 Greek Revival mansion in
Charleston. Filled with hundreds of interior and detail shots, The
Great American House is an invaluable resource for anyone who loves
old houses and traditional design.
In his best-selling first book, Gil Schafer explored the qualities
that make a house a home architecture, landscape, and decoration.
In his eagerly awaited second book, Schafer shows how traditional
and classical principles can blend with a sense of place to create
beautifully realized homes in a range of styles, all with the
satisfying tensions of fancy and simple, past and present. In part
one, Schafer shares his essential tool kit for building a house
that succeeds in both craft and emotion: from how to read the
landscape to incorporating memory to learning how to balance both
fancy and simple elements. In part two, he presents seven homes in
depth, including an apartment with a view of Central Park, a
hillside cottage in Northern California, an updated Connecticut
Colonial on a large farm, an Adirondacks camp on Lake Placid, and a
stunning A-frame on the coast of Maine. While each is unique, all
the homes are beautifully livable, at ease on the land they occupy,
in style, scale, and materials: models that readers will want to
emulate in their own homes.
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