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Hardcover. Condizione: NEW. Condizione sovraccoperta: NEW. Cloth, 437 pages, colour illustrations, plans; 34 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Howard Backen, principal of the architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, is at the center of a popular movement in home design that emphasizes elegant simplicity and embraces the rustic charm of natural materials. This volume, the first on his work and that of the firm, is an artful exploration of this aesthetic, featuring farmhouses in the Napa Valley, hilltop homes, seaside retreats, and lakeside hideaways. Throughout the work, a sense of intimacy, warmth, and informality pervades. Natural materials, such as wood, stone, and brick, form the foundations, walls, and ceilings of these subtly luxurious spaces, while nature itself plays a considered role that is at once complementary and also intricately conjoined with the work" - Publisher. Size: Folio.

First Edition. Foreword by Diane Keaton. Afterword by Stanley Abercrombie. Principal photography by Erhard Pfeiffer. Pp. 456, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white (many full or double page); wide super roy. 4to; cream cloth, spine lettered in blind, fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; dust wrapper; small name stamp at head of half-title page; Rizzoli, New York, 2013. First edition. *'Howard Backen, award-winning principal of the architecture firm Backen, Gillam & Kroeger, is at the centre of a popular movement in home design that emphasises comfort over pretention and elegant simplicity over complication that tends to serve the ego of architects' [wrapper blurb].