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"House-Dreams: How One Man's Vision Became a Family Home"
Hugh Howard
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From author Hugh Howard: Dear Reader: "House-Dreams" tells the
story of how we designed and built a house so, in a sense, it's a
do-it-yourself version of a book I much admire, Tracy Kidder's
"House." However, after I was persuaded to write this accidental
memoir (I hadn't planned to write about the process), the
realization dawned that I was recounting much more than a
construction story. "House-Dreams" is about the process of making a
home. The narrative that drives it is full of the drama of the
build--as the house rises, there are delays, cost overruns,
accidents, and all matter of frustrations and pleasures--but the
flesh and blood of the story is how my wife, Betsy; our two young
daughters; the men who worked with us; and our neighbors and friends
all worked together. The experience showed me how a mere house, when
built with about equal parts sweat, imagination, tradition, and
love, can became a family home. --Hugh Howard
"The New Bungalow"
Matthew Bialecki
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Around 1981, a small Utah-based publisher named Gibbs-Smith had the
wisdom to commission and publish Randell L. Makinson's "Greene and
Greene: Furniture and Related Designs." In the past decade, they
again collaborated with Makinson to produce "Greene and Greene: The
Passion and the Legacy" and "Greene and Greene: The Blacker
House"--not only masterful surveys of the Greene brothers'
meticulously detailed work, but three of the finest books ever
published on the subject of Arts & Crafts design. Following in
this tradition is "The New Bungalow" by the architect Jim McCord,
who specializes in the design, construction, and restoration of
bungalow-style houses in Monterey, California--an area rich with
bungalow-style homes. Comprehensive and sharply written, McCord's
survey of the subject is a book you'll not want to put down.
"Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons"
Alastair Gordon
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The beach house was "the sonnet form of American architecture,"
writes Alastair Gordon. "This was where the revolution began." In
his gracefully written, stunningly illustrated book, he shows how
the evolution of summer housing on the once-rural eastern end of
Long Island, New York heralded key developments in residential
architecture.
"Wallpaper in Decoration"
Jane Gordon Clark
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Oxford-trained artist and interior decorator Jane Gordon Clark
believes wallpaper has been undervalued. Gradually, painting and
stencil designs have replaced paper as popular tools for bringing a
room alive; people often imagine papering as a terrible chore--all
paste-encrusted brushes and sloppy seams. Clark wants to prove the
contrary is true, and her book very effectively brings to light the
lush possibilities of this ancient art, which can transform a bland
room into a shimmering oasis.
DWELL MAGAZINE'S SENIOR EDITOR ALLISON ARIEFF SUGGESTS SEVEN
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Reading Suggestions from the Cutting Edge
As a college sophomore at UCLA, I took a seminar on the culture of
Los Angeles. One day the professor loaded the eight of us into a van
and all of a sudden we were inside the house of Charles and Ray
Eames. We continued on that afternoon with our own little tour of
L.A. modernism. I was 19 and at the time, I didn't really know much
about what I was looking at. But I remember walking through a
sunlight-filled Neutra house thinking how much I wanted to wake up
and have my coffee there. Simple as it sounds, that's pretty much
the quality I look for when I look at houses for dwell. As senior
editor of a magazine whose tag line is At Home in the Modern World,
I'm deluged with books on modern interior, modern furniture, modern
homes, modern design. Here are some recent discoveries (along with a
few old favorites). --Allison Arieff
* "Experimental Houses" by Nicolas Pople
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* "New Small Homes" by Aurora Cuito
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* "Atelier van Lieshout: A Manual" by Piet De Jonge
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* "Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons" by Alastair Gordon
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* "Blueprints for Modern Living: History and Legacy of the Case Study
Houses" edited by Elizabeth A.T. Smith
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* "The Architecture of R.M. Schindler" compiled by Michael Darling
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and of course,
* "Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture" by Thomas
Hines (Arieff's UCLA professor)
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HOME BESTSELLERS
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Moving Fast
* "The Country Houses of David Adler" by Stephen M. Salny
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* "Living in the Arts and Crafts Style" by Charlotte Kelley
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* "Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons" by Alastair Gordon
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LITTLE HOMES WITH LOTS OF CHARM
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Simplify Your Lifestyle with a Log Home
* "Small Log Homes: Storybook Plans and Advice"
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* "The Log Home Plan Book"
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* "The Complete Guide to Log and Cedar Homes: All About Buying,
Building, Decorating, and Furnishing Log, Cedar, and Post & Beam
Homes"
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* "Welcome Home: Consumer Guide to White Cedar Log Homes &
Handcrafted Timber Homes"
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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT
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Michael Webb
People have been chasing vintage modern furniture and cars for
years, but the newest hot item is a classic modern house, and
architecture critic Michael Webb has discovered 35 outstanding
examples that have been lovingly preserved or newly restored. In
"Modernism Reborn," he visits houses from California to Connecticut,
Indiana to Florida, talking with the original architects and new
owners about homes that were too good to tear down. He'd like to
tell you more about his finds and his favorite books on modern
buildings. Don't miss Amazon's special section by Michael Webb.
* "Modernism Reborn: Mid-Century American Houses"
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* "Mies in America"
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* "Through the Windows of Paris"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1890449024/wendysmall
* "Frank Gehry: Architect"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810969297/wendysmall