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Spanish Colonial Style: Santa Barbara and the Architecture of James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig
Pamela Skewes-Cox
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Description for Spanish Colonial Style: Santa Barbara and the Architecture of James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig
Hardcover. An ode to the classic Spanish-style houses of Santa Barbara. Num Pages: 272 pages, 250 colour and black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 315 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1882.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rizzoli International Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
1882 g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780847846122
SKU
V9780847846122
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99-15
About Pamela Skewes-Cox
Pamela Skewes-Cox is an artist and writer based in Massachusetts. Robert Sweeney is the author of Casa del Herrero: The Romance of Spanish Colonial. C. Ford Peatross is founding director of the Center for Architecture, Design, and Engineering at the Library of Congress. Matt Walla is the photographer of Casa del Herrero.
Reviews for Spanish Colonial Style: Santa Barbara and the Architecture of James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig
The red-tile roofs, white stucco walls, and wood-beam ceilings that have become synonymous with Santa Barbara's Spanish-derivative architecture are owed as much to architects James Osborne Craig and Mary McLaughlin Craig. . . [Spanish Colonial Style] anthologizes James Osborne Craig's works spanning 1915 to 1922 and Mary McLaughlin Craig's later embellishments (from 1923 until 1956), creating a fluid evolution of ... Read more