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The California Casa (Hardcover)
Douglas Woods; Photographs by Melba Levick; Introduction by M. Brian Tichenor
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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.
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