Hacienda Style

Author : Karen Witynski
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781423612780

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Hacienda Style by Karen Witynski Pdf

Invite the rich colors, natural textures, and romantic beauty of Mexico into your home. With a vast architectural legacy spanning four centuries, Mexican haciendas express a rugged romantic beauty and compelling sense of history. Today, the hacienda's graceful arcaded silhouette, grand-scale proportions, carved-stone ornament, rich colors and natural textures have become an ever-increasing influence for architects and designers worldwide. Hacienda Style invites you into Mexico's artful, hacienda havens resplendent with private collections of colonial and contemporary art, antiques and found relics. Witynski and Carr's antiques and accents have appeared in national magazines, television programs and feature films, including Architectural Digest, Western Interiors, HGTV's Takeover My Makeover, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and The Alamo. Other books by the same authors: Mexican Country Style, The New Hacienda, Casa Adobe, Adobe Details, Casa Yucatan, and Mexican Details.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780847865161

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The Spanish Style House by Anonim Pdf

Luminous new photography showcases contemporary and historic homes in the beloved Spanish Style in Southern California, while offering, as well, a rare look at the original inspirations to the style, born in Andalusia, Spain. The great appeal of Spanish Style homes lies in their aura of romance and drama, a sense of story, of magic, as well as in their very comfortable and engaging proportions and the great livability of the interior spaces. Deep shadow, arched doorways, trickling courtyard fountains, climbing bougainvillea on wrought-iron window grilles, wood-beamed ceilings, and white plaster walls are all hallmarks of the style. Here, through a celebration of contemporary and historic homes in Southern California, as well as existing historic precedents in Andalusia, Spain--most notably the intricately detailed Casa de Pilatos in Seville and the Alhambra of Granada--The Spanish Style House presents the definitive picture of the style as it exists today. Featured homes include the George Washington Smith-designed Casa Blanca (1928)--a fantasy made real in stone and stucco replete with the romance of old Morocco in its horseshoe arches, domes, and evocative tile murals--and a Marc Appleton-designed beach house (2007) in Del Mar, California, which is a dream on the sea and an eloquent testament to the virtues of the style for today.

Author : Karen Witynski,Joe P. Carr
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1586850318

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Casa Adobe by Karen Witynski,Joe P. Carr Pdf

In their third book, the authors forge through the mountains of Mexico and the deserts of the American Southwest in celebration of the strength and wonder of adobe design style. 195 photos, 175 in color.

Author : Karen Witynski
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1423612760

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Hacienda Courtyards by Karen Witynski Pdf

Explore the architectural elements and water havens that will inspire your own courtyard paradise.

Author : Karen Witynski,Joe P. Carr
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1586852612

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The New Hacienda by Karen Witynski,Joe P. Carr Pdf

Travel behind the scenes with authors Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr as they open the doors to Mexico's remote country estates and reveal innovative interiors, artifacts, and antiques that echo the hacienda's original architectural splendor.

Author : Jeff Doubet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999740709

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Creating Spanish Style Homes by Jeff Doubet Pdf

Author : Kate Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080842621

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Spanish Style by Kate Hill Pdf

Features 23 distinctive homes and boutique hotels, concisely described by travel and design expert Kate Hill. Includes 500 specially commissioned images by celebrated interiors photographer Tim Clinch.

Author : Marc Wanamaker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0738530689

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Early Beverly Hills by Marc Wanamaker Pdf

Way before Rodeo Drive and the "pink palace" of the Beverly Hills Hotel were built, way before the namesake hillbillies, its zip code, and Eddie Murphy's detective techniques reaffirmed its place in popular culture, and way before its 1,001 mansions, Beverly Hills was comprised of wild canyons and ranchlands. Burton Green, one of the three original land developers of the Rancho Rodeo de las Aguas, named this place of severe terrain after Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, a 19th-century spa. Since its establishment in 1907, Beverly Hills, California, has been a crossroads for the great movers and shakers of the entertainment industry as well as the tycoons, world leaders, and flotsam and jetsam magnetized by the limelight. The vintage photographs in this provocative volume illustrate Beverly Hills's early transition from cow pastures to Hollywood's extremely illustrious bedroom community.

Author : Karen Witynski,Joe P. Carr
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1423600258

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Mexican Details by Karen Witynski,Joe P. Carr Pdf

In Mexican Details designers Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr travel throughout Mexico and the Southwest in celebration of the character-rich details of Mexican furniture, architectural elements and handcrafted accents, such as intricately textiles, glazed ceramics, wooden masks and folk art objects. A design resource section is included.

Author : Allan Meyers
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816529957

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Outside the Hacienda Walls by Allan Meyers Pdf

The Mexican Revolution was a tumultuous struggle for social and political reform that ousted an autocrat and paved the way for a new national constitution. The conflict, however, came late to Yucat‡n, where a network of elite families with largely European roots held the reins of government. This privileged group reaped spectacular wealth from haciendas, cash-crop plantations tended by debt-ridden servants of Maya descent. When a revolutionary army from central Mexico finally gained a foothold in Yucat‡n in 1915, the local custom of agrarian servitude met its demise. Drawing on a dozen years of archaeological and historical investigation, Allan Meyers breaks new ground in the study of Yucat‡n haciendas. He explores a plantation village called San Juan Bautista Tabi, which once stood at the heart of a vast sugar estate. Occupied for only a few generations, the village was abandoned during the revolutionary upheaval. Its ruins now lie within a state-owned ecological reserve. Through oral histories, archival records, and physical remains, Meyers examines various facets of the plantation landscape. He presents original data and fresh interpretations on settlement organization, social stratification, and spatial relationships. His systematic approach to "things underfoot," small everyday objects that are now buried in the tropical forest, offers views of the hacienda experience that are often missing in official written sources. In this way, he raises the voices of rural, mostly illiterate Maya speakers who toiled as laborers. What emerges is a portrait of hacienda social life that transcends depictions gleaned from historical methods alone. Students, researchers, and travelers to Mexico will all find something of interest in Meyers's lively presentation. Readers will see the old haciendas--once forsaken but now experiencing a rebirth as tourist destinations--in a new light. These heritage sites not only testify to social conditions that prevailed before the Mexican Revolution, but also remind us that the human geography of modern Yucat‡n is as much a product of plantation times as it is of more ancient periods. Ê

Author : Pamela Skewes-Cox,Robert Sweeney
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780847846122

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Spanish Colonial Style by Pamela Skewes-Cox,Robert Sweeney Pdf

An ode to the classic Spanish-style houses of Santa Barbara. Spanish Colonial Style celebrates an extraordinary tradition in architecture whose hallmarks include whitewashed stucco and plaster walls, wood-beamed ceilings, dramatic fireplaces, and, above all, mystery and romance. Homes in this much-loved style of architecture welcome the visitor and embrace the resident, and architects James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig, early proponents of the style and influential disseminators of it, were masters of the form. Their work, until now, has been largely underappreciated and little seen. The Craigs played pivotal roles in the development of the Spanish Colonial Revival and of other styles of architecture in Santa Barbara, and the influence of their work spread much beyond that. In addition to shining a long overdue spotlight on the rich career of these tremendously influential architects, Spanish Colonial Style also heralds Santa Barbara as the small city of international importance that it became in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Dori Griffin
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780816509324

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Mapping Wonderlands by Dori Griffin Pdf

Mapping Wonderlands explores popular, illustrated maps of Arizona as a tourism destination, investigating the relationship between landscapes, visual culture, and narratives of place. These aesthetically appealing maps offer tourists an Arizona landscape at once historical and imaginary – just as their makers intended.

Author : John Hawks,Tom Higgins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1592578047

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Las Vegas by John Hawks,Tom Higgins Pdf

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Author : Phoebe S. Kropp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520931657

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California Vieja by Phoebe S. Kropp Pdf

The characteristic look of Southern California, with its red-tiled roofs, stucco homes, and Spanish street names suggests an enduring fascination with the region’s Spanish-Mexican past. In this engaging study, Phoebe S. Kropp reveals that the origins of this aesthetic were not solely rooted in the Spanish colonial period, but arose in the early twentieth century, when Anglo residents recast the days of missions and ranchos as an idyllic golden age of pious padres, placid Indians, dashing caballeros and sultry senoritas. Four richly detailed case studies uncover the efforts of Anglo boosters and examine the responses of Mexican and Indian people in the construction of places that gave shape to this cultural memory: El Camino Real, a tourist highway following the old route of missionaries; San Diego’s world’s fair, the Panama-California Exposition; the architecturally- and racially-restricted suburban hamlet Rancho Santa Fe; and Olvera Street, an ersatz Mexican marketplace in the heart of Los Angeles. California Vieja is a compelling demonstration of how memory can be more than nostalgia. In Southern California, the Spanish past became a catalyst for the development of the region’s built environment and public culture, and a civic narrative that still serves to marginalize Mexican and Indian residents.

Author : Richard L. Kagan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496211132

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The Spanish Craze by Richard L. Kagan Pdf

The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic to the New Deal. As Spanish power and influence waned in the Atlantic World by the eighteenth century, her rivals created the "Black Legend," which promoted an image of Spain as a dead and lost civilization rife with innate cruelty and cultural and religious backwardness. The Black Legend and its ambivalences influenced Americans throughout the nineteenth century, reaching a high pitch in the Spanish-American War of 1898. However, the Black Legend retreated soon thereafter, and Spanish culture and heritage became attractive to Americans for its perceived authenticity and antimodernism. Although the Spanish craze infected regions where the Spanish New World presence was most felt--California, the American Southwest, Texas, and Florida--there were also early, quite serious flare-ups of the craze in Chicago, New York, and New England. Kagan revisits early interest in Hispanism among elites such as the Boston book dealer Obadiah Rich, a specialist in the early history of the Americas, and the writers Washington Irving and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He also considers later enthusiasts such as Angeleno Charles Lummis and the many writers, artists, and architects of the modern Spanish Colonial Revival in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Spain's political and cultural elites understood that the promotion of Spanish culture in the United States and the Western Hemisphere in general would help overcome imperial defeats while uniting Spaniards and those of Spanish descent into a singular raza whose shared characteristics and interests transcended national boundaries. With elegant prose and verve, The Spanish Craze spans centuries and provides a captivating glimpse into distinct facets of Hispanism in monuments, buildings, and private homes; the visual, performing, and cinematic arts; and the literature, travel journals, and letters of its enthusiasts in the United States.