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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 728.09763
Fabric Type: 9780810954953
Legal Disclaimer: 0810954958
Maximum Color Depth: Abrams
Metal Type: Abrams
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 192
Total External Bays Free: April 01, 2007
Total Firewire Ports: Abrams
Abrams
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Creole houses, found from New Orleans to northern Louisiana, are one of the nation’s unique architectural treasures. A blend of French and Spanish colonial styles, with West Indian, Canadian, and other influences, these lovely houses were astutely designed to withstand their sultry, subtropical environment. Significantly, most major examples withstood the devastating hurricanes of 2005.
No other book of photography evocatively examines the development of this singular American style, embracing architecture and interior decoration, which thrived from the early eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. Creole Houses offers an appreciation of Creole culture as seen through its historic homes and celebrates not only a memorable way of life, but the history, and the unique sensibility, that produced it.
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I have really enjoyed this book. It is a beautifully photographed collection of homes in the creole style, and the images are mysterious and some are a little haunting. For those interested in this architectural style, I would also recommend the book on the homes of A. Hayes Towne for a glimpse at newer creole homes. Honestly, I have not read much of the text, so I can't comment on the quality of the information shared. The photographs are compelling enough for me to recommend the book.
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For a devotee of creole architecture, like me, this is an absolute must have. The book is a wonderful production in total. The photography is beautiful and the text informative. Interestingly, several of these structures have not been widely published elsewhere. Anyone interested in historic architecture should get this without question.
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This book is a great help for me. I like to build a house in Spain in this style.
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I thought the book was supposed to be new, I may have got that wrong, but it was not new nor wrapped, but in pretty good shape.
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A very nice book on a beautiful architectual style. These houses fit perfectly into the Southern Louisiana landscape, they were built for balmy humid climate of the region. I found the history of the people that built these homes very interesting, the text was imformative and the images nicely produced. If you are interested in this style i highly recomend the book on Hays Town, he was a modern master of the venacular.
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