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Japanese
Gardens (Rizzoli) These amazing Japanese style gardens range from the oldest, the Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and the Japanese Friendship Garden at Balboa Park in San Diego, to those in private retreats and to those sponsored by universities and corporations. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Desert
Gardens (Rizzoli) 18 of the most important desert gardens in the world including Huntington Gardens, Moorten Botanical Gardens, Balboa Park and many exquisit private gardens. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Estate
Gardens
(Rizzoli) Estate Gardens of California showcases fifteen magnificent estate gardens that are uniquely, exuberantly Californian. Included within are the classically inspired, 654-acre gardens of Filoli near San Francisco. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Great
Gardens in Small Spaces (Rizzoli) Great Gardens in Small Spaces features forty-four wonderful and exquisitely photographed California gardens, specifically treating the small garden, its particular challenges and its abundant opportunities and rewards. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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In
A Mexican Garden (Chronicle
Books) From private homes to luxurious resorts, In A Mexican Garden celebrates Mexico's hidden oases where lovers meet for margaritas at sunset and families gather for spirited fiestas. The dazzling array of featured properties includes rustic coastal hideaways, elegant Spanish Colonial mansions, rural haciendas, and Modernist architectural masterpieces. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Mexicocina
(Chronicle
Books) Mexicocina takes you behind the doors of private homes, museums, resorts, and cooking schools for an insider's tour of the kitchens of Mexico. Awash in bright colors and bold designs, each kitchen features traditional Mexican artistry flavored with the owners' distinctive style. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Mexicolor
(Chronicle Books) This well-illustrated, visually inspiring book depicts color in Mexican vernacular design. The first half shows how bright, vivid colors and natural colors are juxtaposed in Mexico. The last section shows how Mexican architects and designers use these colors in exteriors and interiors and both contemporary and traditional design. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Mexicasa
(Chronicle Books) This lavishly illustrated book highlights 21 small hotels, inns, and haciendas some ancient, some modern in several areas of Mexico. Some are historic sites, such as the Hacienda de Cortis, another offers cultural studies programs, while yet another features open-air structures adjacent to a nature preserve. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Indiacolor
(Chronicle Books) NEW!
IndiaColor captures the bright hues and beautiful patterns of this diverse nation, offering a treasury of furniture, textiles, jewelry, clothing, and architecture, along with marketplaces, artists, and even animals. Vibrant, inspirational, and bursting with fascinating details, IndiaColor is a journey between two covers./font> view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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India
Sublime (Rizzoli)
NEW!
Vivid colors, delicate stonework, and opulent décor are the trademarks of the palaces, forts, and mansions of India’s maharajas. With their vast marble halls, jewel-box mirrored rooms, mosaics, and tapestries, these palaces present a veritable visual feast. In styles ranging from Art Deco to modern, from Indian folk style to English Colonial, the palaces of Rajasthan, dating from as early as AD 760 to as recently as the middle of the last century, are astonishingly innovative and modern. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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California
Mediterranean (Rizzoli)
NEW! In the early 20th-century, architects designing houses for the balmy climate of Southern California were influenced by the style of the villas and palaces that dominated the architecture of Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and Morocco, and a few other North African locales. The resulting style-noted for its pleasing combination of simplicity and dignity, for its often asymetrical undecorated facades-reflected romantic, European forms, and yet distinguished itself by adding American ingenuity. photos coming soon... purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Casa
California (Rizzoli) 21 private spanish style homes built between 1922 and 1991 in Southern California's eclectic and individualistic Hispanic mission and Mediterranean revival styles. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Beach
Houses from Malibu to Laguna
(Rizzoli) 25 southern California beach houses houses are featured, all representing different architectural styles and each beautifully photographed. Also provides a plethora of information about the beach houses of the wealthy in Southern California. purchase book at Amazon.com |
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The
Studio Book
(Random House) A treasure trove of eclectic studios that exemplify the individual ideas and aethetics of their owners details thirty-six contemporary and historical studio spaces, that range from serene, contemplative spaces to bustling workshops and feature the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Julia Morgan, and Frank Gehry, among others. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Reflections
on the Pool
(Rizzoli) Spotlighting 40 stellar examples of swimming pool design, ranging from the nature-inspired designs of Isabelle Greene to the vanguard mid-century pools of Thomas Church and the brilliant Mexican-style architecture of Ricardo Legorreta, plus popular tourist sites. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Missions
of California
(Chronicle Books) California's missions were built by Spanish padres over 150 years ago, and this book tells the history of each, along with photographs of the adobe architecture, bright gardens, rustic interiors, and artistic flourishes. A classic guide to 21 missions, this beautifully illustrated volume is now revised and updated. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Antonio
Gaudi - Master Architect
(Abbeville Press) Antonio Gaudí (1852-1926) is one of the best-known architects of the 20th century. Even today, some 75 years after Gaudí's death, his playful, exuberant buildings continue to influence architects, sculptors, and designers. Perhaps most identified with the dynamic, sculptural facades found on his structures, Gaudí is respected as much for his technological innovations as for his daring style. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Barcelona
Art Nouveau
(Poligrapha/Rizzoli) This visually stunning work focuses on the crowning architectural wonders of Modernisme--the Catalan version of Art Nouveau--located in the Eixample quadrant of Barcelona. Highlighted are 46 of the most outstanding turn-of-the-19th-century houses, public buildings, and monuments in this unique style, created by some of the most notable architects of that period, including Domenech, Gaudi, Puig, and Sagnier. purchase book at Amazon.com |
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Gaudi
Of Barcelona
(Poligrapha/Rizzoli) Since the late 1800s, Spanish architect Antonio Gaudí's (1852-1926) fanciful buildings have defined Barcelona's cityscape. His playful spires and towers, undulating tiled roofs, and writhing chimneys loom like Dr. Suess creatures atop commercial and apartment buildings alike, and his sculptures are an integral component of many of the city's parks and public spaces. As respected for his technical innovations as for his aesthetic boldness, Gaudí was able to achieve unique, organic, fluid--at times even bizarre--architectural forms that paralleled the stylistic development of art nouveau. view photos purchase book at Amazon.com |
