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Title: Ski Style: Alpine Interiors, Architecture & Living Style by Simon McBride, Alexandra Black ISBN: 0-312-27521-8 Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 09 January, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Breathtaking mountain homes
Comment: I felt there was an unhappy overtone in 'skifanatic's review elsewhere. I guess I can remember feeling a bit like that when young and all I could do was covet. However, don't be put off. The photos in this book -- particularly the Alpine homes -- are a tribute to design, warmth, style, and beauty of traditional materials. And yes, they are also a tribute to money.
But take out the envy and you have examples of a most fabulous marriage between modern crafts and mediaeval styles, using wood, iron, glass, ceramics, cottons, furs, etc etc. Breathtaking homes -- though somewhat less so in the case of the modern-style, overly self-conscious designs.
I lived in a mountain village in the Swiss Alps for a couple of years in the 1960s, and still adore the warmth, solidity, simplicity of the homes there as well as the intracies of the wood structures, paneling and finishes. That was true even for (maybe especially for) the peasant chalets, such as those where I spent that time (skiing fanatically, I might add).
The homes in this book are a tribute to what great imagination, and great taste, based on traditional styles materials, and values can achieve. I was transported by the book and would love to own one of them -- if someone else would take on the upkeep and maintainance!!
Mr.'skifanatic' will get over his hurt one day I hope and may even get to enjoy such places -- while ignoring the fact that others possess them. We don't all have to live in the kind of crowd-accomodating ski barns that dot today's ski centers to be democratic. It is good that human achievement can reach the levels shown in this book. It keeps the crafts people up in the mountains where they surely have a place.
Rating: 1
Summary: if you have enough money you can build the house you want
Comment: All this proves is that "ski style" is ANYTHING you want to build in a ski area. Some of the places have no "ski" feel at all.
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Title: Mountain Style by Mary Whitesides, Matthew Reier ISBN: 1586850407 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Mountain Interiors - Interieurs Des Montagnes by Beate Wedekind ISBN: 3822823902 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Alpine Interiors/Alpen Interieurs/Interieurs Des Alpes: Alpen Interieurs = Interieurs Des Alpes by Beate Wedekind, Angelika Taschen, Isabel Varea ISBN: 3822876364 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Mountain Houses by Paco Asensio, Aurora Cuito, Alejandro Bahamon, Belen Garcia ISBN: 0823073920 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Snow Country: Mountain Homes and Rustic Retreats by Elizabeth Claire Flood, Peter Woloszynski, Elizabeth Clair Flood ISBN: 0811824519 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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