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Summary: Whodathunkit - a page-turner architecture book!
Review: 5 stars plus! A book to delight the heart! It's so well-written you don't want to stop reading, yet you want to see what delight awaits on the next page. My suggestion - page through and look at all the pictures - then go back and read it all. Great job - please do another one!
These guys did a similar book called Red Tile Style, on spanish revival architecture - if you like this one, check it out- it's also very well done.
Rating:
Summary: Whodathunkit - a page-turner architecture book!
Review: 5 stars plus! A book to delight the heart! It's so well-written you don't want to stop reading, yet you want to see what delight awaits on the next page. My suggestion - page through and look at all the pictures - then go back and read it all. Great job - please do another one!
These guys did a similar book called Red Tile Style, on spanish revival architecture - if you like this one, check it out- it's also very well done.
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Summary: The best in the business keeps getting better!
Review: Great photos, great text, fabulous subject. Now more people will come to appreciate this "lost" or under appreciated style and hopefully learn about and preserve the houses for the future. Looking forward to the next exploration, architectural or otherwise.
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Summary: The best in the business keeps getting better!
Review: I like castles and medeival houses especially with timber-beam construction like Old English villages & Bavarian Forest inns. This book has those styles in brilliant color photos. Although there are no floorplans to speak of, Storybook Style is a refreshing, enchanting look at homes that only your immagination could have dreamed up from half-forgotten fairytales of a place that time forgot. Most of the featured buildings are in California. These are the kind of homes I would like to build for my mom for her retirement and a place I could visit to get away from the real world.
Charming, distinctive, quaint, eclectic, fanciful, old-country... Some of the adjectives to desribe these homes that are so far from the typical modern boring houses of today. A book well worth the money for the coffee table or for design ideas.
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Summary: This is the book I've been looking for.
Review: I like castles and medeival houses especially with timber-beam construction like Old English villages & Bavarian Forest inns. This book has those styles in brilliant color photos. Although there are no floorplans to speak of, Storybook Style is a refreshing, enchanting look at homes that only your immagination could have dreamed up from half-forgotten fairytales of a place that time forgot. Most of the featured buildings are in California. These are the kind of homes I would like to build for my mom for her retirement and a place I could visit to get away from the real world.
Charming, distinctive, quaint, eclectic, fanciful, old-country... Some of the adjectives to desribe these homes that are so far from the typical modern boring houses of today. A book well worth the money for the coffee table or for design ideas.
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Summary: All in California?
Review: I was disappointed. The houses were mostly all in California. There is actually a house in Brooklyn New York that is a landmark and is better than most houses featured in this book.
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Summary: Homes out of Hollywood fantasy land
Review: Idea books for cottages and cottage detailing don't get much better than this. This book tells the story of the emergence of the Storybook style in the early part of the 20th century-- a style that came right out of the fantasy world of Hollywood. In fact, many of the homes featured in this book were commissioned by the movie folk of this era. This is a larger format book-- and you'll be glad it is when you see the pictures!
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Summary: Rare original idea
Review: My first impression of this book was that it was a trifle; once I started to read it though, I discovered it was surprisingly substantial. What a joy to look at these quaint medieval-inspired houses. Lots of them, and all those turrets! You won't find mention of this phenomenon in any of the popular books on house styles, and the author deserves credit for documenting it. The book displays a professional knowledge of architecture, unlike many in this category which seem to be written by art historians, and you can rest assured the author will not confuse a mullion with a muntin, or claim, as another one once did, that Tudor is an early Rennaissance style. (Although he happens to be incorrect in saying "terra cotta" means "hollow tile"; it means "baked earth".) No vacant catalog-esque prose here; the author knows his subject and enjoys telling others about it.
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Summary: A wonderful book
Review: This is a beautiful book. The photographs are very good, and the featured buildings are fascinating. I wish that addresses could be included (although I am sure the owners of the homes would not agree). I have happened to spot a few of my favorite buildings from the book in my area, which was quite a treat.
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Summary: Living in fantasyland - wonderful!
Review: This is exactly the book I was looking for. I love this style home, but I never knew exactly how to describe it (or that it was even a 'true' architectural style). This book has not only given me some ideas about what I'd love to have in a home, but also made me aware that there are such homes in my area :) The pictures are really wonderful. A lovely book for anyone with a sense of whimsy.
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