Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | McAlpine, Bobby; Sully, Susan |
| Publisher: | Rizzoli |
| Date: | 9/26/2017 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Condition: | NEW |
An appealing approach to creating dwellings blending vernacular styles, fine craftsmanship, and indigenous materials.
This volume features the recent projects of McAlpine,one of the country’s most highly respected architecture and interiordesign firms, renowned for its timeless houses exemplifying the charmand elegance of traditional and vernacular English, American, andEuropean styles blended with a modern sensibility.
Following from their first book, The Home Within Us,this book profiles twenty stunning projects, from a stone tower follystanding in the gardens of a Tudor-style house to a humble yet elegantwooden lakeside retreat. Through his poetic voice, Bobby McAlpinenarrates the story of each residence, pointing out its unique are an exotic Florida Panhandle beach house; a Tuscan-stylehorse farm; a rambling Colonial Revival compound; and a miniatureEuropean manor house, among others. These dwellings are classicallyunderstated and welcoming. With its gorgeous photography of inspiringinteriors and exteriors, Poetry of Place will appeal to those interested in design romancing the past.
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