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Title: California Wine Country: Interior Design, Architecture & Style by Diane Dorrans Saeks, Alan Weintraub ISBN: 0-8118-1501-3 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Nice start - but barely a beginning
Comment: Ms. Saeks did a reasonable job, but the book is close to worthless if you want to design your house in a recognizable California Wine Country style. Katya and I suggest developing a color palette from the book, but after tens of hours of studying it we can not determine a quantifiable style. Consider this book as a raw first start; a survey of modest importance. The interiors are all over the map. The only commonality is their location in California. Worth buying - yes, but only to understand the diversity possible. Is a more serious study necessary - yes. California wine country is a combination of Tuscan, Provencal, and Spanish Colonial/Early California, with Asian influences. Themes and moods vary. Pretty much freestyle designing. However, certain rules will give you a recognizable style. We're working on it.

- Jim and Katya Preston

Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: I collect decorating books (I'm obsessed with them!) and this is my absolute favorite! It's sitting on my coffee table and I look at it again and again; I wish I could find more like it. We have recently purchased/remodled another house and this book was the inspiration for many of the things I incorporated into this house.

Rating: 4
Summary: An architect's opinion of this book
Comment: This book is a beautiful presentation of Interior (and outdoor) Design, but little true architecture. Most of the profiled homes appear as sets in a film and seem unrealistic as full time residences. As an architect, I will admit that most are wonderful, humanly scaled spaces. I'm not sure why the wine country is profiled-- other than the budgets are fat there. Overall, the book is worth the price.

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