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Product details
- ISBN 9780847842698
- Dimensions: 241 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 25 Feb 2025
- Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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With all-new photographs of traditionally styled houses, from 1838 to today, in this extraordinary paradise on earth, this book celebrates a tradition in architecture and in living whose appeal has proven irresistible and with good reason. With its perfect climate and abundant California sunshine, Santa Barbara represents an enduring ideal and one that s happily real, and at hand. At its heart is the historic downtown, which features pristine white-washed Mediterranean-style stucco buildings with red tile roofs that harken back to the city s Spanish colonial heritage and the iconic Santa Barbara Mission of 1787, whose austere beauty set the tone for all that would later surround it. Known world-wide as the Santa Barbara style, the town epitomizes a type of building at once elegant and suffused with poetry, here kept in an extraordinary state of preservation. From its earliest days, the influence of this special place has been felt and has since radiated across the sunbelt; it remains to this day a model of emulation and inspiration. But it is the houses and the dream of living in Santa Barbara and its sister communities of Ojai, Carpenteria, Summerland, Goleta, and Montecito, that casts the most profound spell. Featuring a wide range of these houses, estates, and gardens, many previously unpublished and unphotographed, the book is a celebration of this wonderous eden. From the landmarked Rancho Santa Clara del Norte of 1838, with its beautiful classical gardens and evocative mountain views, to the traditionally styled contemporary treasure Villa Corbeau of 2006, the reader is at once surprised, delighted, and invited in. The work of noted architects, including the legendary George Washington Smith and Lutah Maria Riggs, is featured beside that of charming anonymous builders. From historic treasures reinterpreted for today to contemporary interpretations of tradition, the book is, like Santa Barbara, a treasure to behold and a magical place within which one finds enchantment.
Douglas Woods is author of The California Casa, Classic Homes of Los Angeles, and Dreaming Small: Intimate Interiors, and co-author of Julius Shulman Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis. Matt Walla is the photographer of Casa del Herrero and Spanish Colonial Style. Based in Santa Barbara, his work has appeared widely, including in such publications as Architectural Digest, Luxe, California Homes, and elsewhere. Marc Appleton is an architect, founding principle of Appleton Partners, and author of Ranches: Home on the Range in California and others. M. Brian Tichenor is founding partner of Tichenor & Thorp Architects and is a fellow of the Garden Conservancy, The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens and the Society of Architectural Historians.
