Coming Home: The Southern Vernacular House
Coming Home: The Southern Vernacular House
$45.00
Strickland, James Lowell and Susan Sully. Coming Home: The Southern Vernacular House
Rizzoli 2012
Book ID: 90703
Beautifully photographed country houses, mountain retreats, and coastal cottages located in and beyond the American South demonstrate this prestigious firmÕs talent for translating traditional architecture into charming and inviting designs. Interiors and exteriors combine the formal and informalÑdrawing equally from refined houses in Beaufort, Charleston, and Savannah, as well as rural farmhouses and rustic cabins in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Simultaneously elegant and casual, a Beaufort-style house combines classic revival details with painted plank walls. A waterfront retreat overlooking a tidal marsh mixes eclectic elements from Southern coastal cottages, such as a tin roof and sleeping porch, with Caribbean details like French doors and Bermuda shutters. Reclaimed planks and beams in a barrier island vacation home capture the romance of living in a converted barn.
224 pp. Cl.
