European Dream Homes

European Dream Homes
Author: Home Planners, inc
Publisher: Home Planners, LLC
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2002
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781931131056

This updated edition features 200 unique designs for French, English, and Mediterranean-themed homes that combine modern floor plans with a wide range of Old World exteriors. 560 illustrations, some in color.

Dan Sater's Ultimate European Home Plans Collection

Dan Sater's Ultimate European Home Plans Collection
Author: Dan F. Sater, II
Publisher: DDP
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2013-06-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781932553369

: Experience the craft of Dan Sater, a true master of residential home design, as you turn the pages of this stunningly beautiful book. This specially curated selection of European plans includes one hundred and six English, French, Italian, Spanish and Tuscan designs, all in the casually elegant style of Dan F. Sater II, AIBD. The indoor spaces seamlessly merge with outdoor living areas, open layouts and wide rear views, which reign supreme, and no amenity is spared within the owner's quarters. Rich, full-color photography comprises the majority of the latest title for the Sater Design Collection, providing a vast resource for modern European-inspired interior design ideas.

Sater Design

Sater Design
Author: Dan F. Sater
Publisher: Designs Direct Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781932553130

Experience the craft of Dan Sater, a true master of residential home design, as you turn the pages of this stunningly beautiful book. Here you will find 32 of Dan's finest and largest luxury estate homes?most never before published?from authentically detailed and richly appointed Tuscan and Spanish masterpieces to breezy, refreshing Florida-style seaside treasures. Read a candid introduction of each project from Dan and then go on a breathtaking pictorial and narrative tour of each home. See a birds-eye view of the property on the colorful site plan and ?walk through? the house using the detailed floor plan. Glimpse some of Dan's most creative past and future projects in the ?Concepts? chapter and consult the ?Resource List? at the back for valuable information on builders, landscapers, pool contractors, interior designers, lighting engineers and photographers who have been part of the ?Sater Team.? For those who are designing, building, furnishing or just dreaming about a state-of-the-art luxury home, this inspiring book will be a fantastic wish come true. Take advantage of the rare opportunity to peek over the shoulder of one of America's acclaimed residential designers and enter some of the most enchanting and stimulating homes ever built!

Modern Originals

Modern Originals
Author: Leslie Williamson
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-04-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0847842231

This intimate portrait of both iconic and unknown midcentury European designers and architectural masterpieces reveals an inspiring personal approach to modernism. This gorgeously photographed volume features the intimate and private spaces of both the icons and unknown vanguards of European midcentury architecture and design. Showcasing the functional beauty of midcentury design, Modern Originals presents the innovative homes by some of the most compelling and influential European midcentury designers, including Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Finn Juhl, Robin and Lucienne Day, and Gae Aulenti, to name a few. Williamson gained exclusive access to homes that are often closed to the public, and this intimacy is reflected in her richly detailed photographs. Each chapter is dedicated to a single home where the interiors are intact as they were lived in by their designers. Examples include the iconic Studio Achille Castiglioni in Milan; the Helsinki home of Aino and Alvar Aalto with signs of functionalism preserved; Finn Juhl's Scandinavian farmhouse, with warm woods and bursts of primary colors; and Carlo Mollino's eccentric Italian lair filled with his sensually shaped designs. This rare glimpse into the personal spaces of legendary designers in the midcentury canon reveals the highest expression of their ideas created for the most demanding of clients: themselves.

Tuscan & Andalusian Reflections

Tuscan & Andalusian Reflections
Author: Aram Bassenian
Publisher: Designs Direct Publishing
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2005
Genre: Architects
ISBN: 0972153926

Dazzling beautiful, this new hardcover book is a tour de force of the latest European-inspired homes designed by Bassenian/Lagoni Architects of Newport Beach, California's premier residential architecture firm. Here the reader will discover ruggedly handsome exteriors reminiscent of the hill towns of Tuscany and richly appointed interiors that echo the great rooms of Andalusia--all with very modern floor plans and amenities. This milestone book will serve as a valuable resource for anyone seeking ideas for a home design, landscaping, interiors and furnishings in the Old World Style.

House Styles in America

House Styles in America
Author: James C. Massey
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture, American
ISBN: 9780140281125

This beautifully illustrated tour of America's houses begins in 1640 with the early roots of American style -- a combination of European skill and attitude combined with American know-how. This architectural journey continues on through the 18th and 19th centuries, through the Greek Revival, the Americanization of the Gothic Revival, and the early Colonial Revival. The houses of the 20th century are the main attraction as House Styles in America delves into the major movements in the Romantic Revivals of the 1920s and 1930s: English, French, and Spanish. Replete with 200 color photographs, this architectural journey is an essential and beautiful guide for realtors, tourists, and students of architecture.

Storybook Style

Storybook Style
Author: Arrol Gellner
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2017
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780764353086

Storybook style, fairy tale, Disneyesque, Hansel and Gretel-these are all synonyms for what is surely the most delightful residential style of the twentieth century. With their romantic evocation of faraway lands and eras, storybook homes were created by architects and builders with a flair for theater, a love of fine craftsmanship, and above all a sense of humour-attributes that make them especially endearing to the jaded modern eye. The storybook style was born on the backlots of Hollywood in the 1920s, where brilliant set designers first learned to evoke the exotic architecture of medieval Europe and the Middle East. Movie-going Americans became fascinated with these settings, and architects and builders were quick to capitalise on this enthusiasm. The whimsical style soon spread from coast to coast, and the unforgettable results are portrayed here.

The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900

The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900
Author: Jon Stobart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1350092967

Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional attachment, yet its study remains under-developed in the context of the European house. In this volume, Jon Stobart has assembled an international cast of contributors to discuss the ways in which architectural and spatial innovations coupled with the emotional assemblage of objects to create comfortable homes in early modern Europe. The book features a two-section structure focusing on the historiography of architectural and spatial innovations and material culture in the early modern home. It also includes 10 case studies which draw on specific examples, from water closets in Georgian Dublin to wallpapers in 19th-century Cambridge, to illustrate how people made use of and responded to the technological improvements and the emotional assemblage of objects which made the home comfortable. In addition, it explores the role of memory and memorialisation in the domestic space, and the extent to which home comforts could be carried about by travellers or reproduced in places far removed from the home. The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900 offers a fresh contribution to the study of comfort in the early modern home and will be vital reading for academics and students interested in early modern history, material culture and the history of interior architecture.