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Summary: Interesting info, beautiful photos
Review: Adirondack Style is more than a book that just sits on the coffee table waiting to impress your friends; it's fun to read. The places described range from grand old estates to new owner-built homes, and there's advice (and sources) for capturing your own northwoods look.
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Summary: Beautiful book for dreamers
Review: Adirondack Style takes me back to summer camp and family vacations! As the title says, it is devoted to just one second-home style. In any case, I loved it, but I also recommend Cottage Style, a decorating book that shows a lot of weekend-house decorating ideas (that work even if you don't have a weekend house!). I also bought New Cottage Home, which is about designs for building new weekend homes.
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Summary: Excellent depiction of "Adirondack Style"
Review: Ann O'Leary's "Adirondack Style" is the kind of book you curl up with in front of a roaring fire with a cup of tea. You can dream about a rustic retreat that makes you feel comforted and relaxed. This book is not to be missed if you live and love the Adirondacks.
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Summary: Excellent depiction of "Adirondack Style"
Review: Ann O'Leary's "Adirondack Style" is the kind of book you curl up with in front of a roaring fire with a cup of tea. You can dream about a rustic retreat that makes you feel comforted and relaxed. This book is not to be missed if you live and love the Adirondacks.
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Summary: Great!!! Adk Book AMust For The Lover of the Adirondacks
Review: Anne O'Leary captures the essence of the Adirondack style of architecture as well a the Adirondack style of living and decorating. Obviously a great deal of thought and energy was centered on making this book one of the best Adirondacks book to hit the market in years. A real steal for under $30.00
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Summary: A nice look at one style
Review: As I just wrote in a review of Cabin Fever, this book, too, is a delight to look at. But it is limited (as its title says, of course) to one style that is a bit more rustic than what we have in mind. Still, this is a lovely book to peruse. As we gather information on vacation homes, our favorite book is a new one called Second Home, which includes visits to everything from oceanside homes and lake cottages to mountain cabins. Second Home also includes information on how to shop for a second home, how to decide what location is right, and tips on building, decorating and so on. I've never met a vacation house book I didn't like, and I like them all. But Second Home is our favorite because it has such variety of home styles and helpful tips in it.
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Summary: Dream, dream, dream!
Review: Between this book and another, also from amazon, called Cottage Style, I have more than enough to fuel my vacation house daydreams. A great start for 2000 and for my own dreams of early retirement.
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Summary: Uniquely American architecture finally gets examined.
Review: Finally, one of the few original American architectural styles has been researched, documented, and presented in a subtly exquisite volume. "Adirondack Style," by Ann Stillman O'Leary is more than the familiar coffee-table adornment. It's a serious survey of American culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as embodied in uniquely American design and craftsmanship. Many people associate "Adirondack style" with the simple, rustic, and eternally stylish Adirondack chair. Knock-offs of varying quality are ubiquitous in every home-furnishings catalog. Adirondack "camps," on the other hand, as O'Leary describes in meticulous detail, were much more than rustic furnishings. The originals were sophisticated, often luxurious, always artfully detailed summer escapes for captains of industry and their families in northeastern New York state from the late 1800s until the Depression. O'Leary chronicles the social history, the (almost lost) art of building with indigenous materials, and the style currently enjoying a renaissance in both restorations and new construction. Gary R. Hall's photographs are warm and luscious, revealing the comfort and eccentricity of each space. Most importantly, Hall and O'Leary have combined their talents to renew enthusiasm for an under-appreciated and, until now, barely examined genre of American craftsmanship. "Adirondack Style" describes an evolution that, unlike revivals that are often pale imitations of their predecessors, continues as builders and artisans interpret its traditions for today and tomorrow.Sara Hart Associate Editor Architecture Magazine
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Summary: A wonderful source of information and inspiration
Review: Harvey Kaiser, author of the classic book, Great Camps of the Adirondacks, says: "This book is a superb work that will inspire lovers of the Adirondack style. Ann O'Leary brings a contemporary note to the rich history of the region. Future owners, architects, and interior designers will find in this book a wonderful source of information and inspiration."
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Summary: Adirondack Awesome!!
Review: I totally "loved" this book. One of my favorites. I am totally into "camp,cabin,and adirondack" decorating books and this book totally delivered the goods. Gorgous pictures gives one many cozy decorating ideas and just a book to daze and dream away an afternoon with.
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