A luxurious presentation in all-new photography of the most splendid estates and mansions of the Golden State. California Splendor, a lavish, beautifully produced, large-format volume, presents iconic California houses dating from the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento of 1857 to publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst's palatial castle in San Simeon, completed after decades of construction in 1947. The book is comprehensive in its treatment, presenting to the reader a rediscovery and fresh exploration of the state's ...
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A luxurious presentation in all-new photography of the most splendid estates and mansions of the Golden State. California Splendor, a lavish, beautifully produced, large-format volume, presents iconic California houses dating from the Leland Stanford Mansion in Sacramento of 1857 to publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst's palatial castle in San Simeon, completed after decades of construction in 1947. The book is comprehensive in its treatment, presenting to the reader a rediscovery and fresh exploration of the state's great architectural offerings and showcasing the very best, in styles ranging from Spanish Colonial Revival, English Revival, and Mission Revival to Adobe, Monterey Colonial, and Italianate Victorian. Lovingly featured are such magnificent homes as the Arts and Crafts masterpiece of architects Charles and Henry Greene--the Gamble House--a work of subtle refinement and mysterious charm built for a Cincinnati businessman who longed for warm summer breezes and the fragrance of orange blossoms. The reader also finds here the extraordinary Filoli House and Garden, the Henry Huntington Mansion, the Spreckels Mansion, Casa del Herrero, and Carolands, to name only a few. More potent and powerful in our imagination than any one house is the dream, the aspiration to happiness and grandeur embodied by them all--a dream brought down to earth and to which we have been invited in California Splendor.
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Good in Good dust jacket. 0847839656. With coloured decorated title, plates & illustrations. Dustjacket in plastic protective cover. With sticky tape on endpapers and covers. With library stamps & labels. Some wear to bottom margin covers. Slight wear to spine, covers, corners & dustjacket.; 28.9 x 28.6 x 3.4 cms; 304 pages.
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Illustrated by Glomb, David. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0847839656. Clean and bright, with no owners' or publishers' marks; hard cover and jacket show very minimal shelfwear at corners, otherwise excellent, with the jacket now protected in a clear sleeve. 304pp.; Photographs; Large 4to.
