American Rustic

by Chase Reynolds Ewald, Audrey Hall (Photographer)

Overview

An intimate look at rustic homes, cabins, architecture, and decorating in true American rustic style. Included are fresh takes on traditional log cabins, sustainable projects, artistic abodes, and places for play—all artistically photographed and discussed in exquisite prose. From a New Mexico Pueblo to a New York lake house, from humble to grand, these dream retreats will carry away your imagination.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423640288
Publisher:	Smith, Gibbs Publisher
Publication date:	06/06/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	141 MB
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About the Author

CHASE REYNOLDS EWALD has been writing about food, design, travel, and lifestyle for 25 years. A graduate of Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley, she is currently Senior Editor of Western Art & Architecture Magazine. She lives in Tiburon, California.

AUDREY HALL’S photography has been widely published; her feature stories have appeared in The New York Times, Interiors, Luxe, Preservation, Country Living, Sunset, and the Wall Street Journal. She lives in Livingston, Montana.

Read an Excerpt

With its logs, twigs, burls and bark, American Rustic style is rooted in the Arts & Crafts movement, which in its time was a natural response to the rapid industrialization, homogenization and shift in populations from rural to urban areas in the nineteenth century. This sylvan style then, as today, spoke to a collective yearning for a simpler life and a return to nature’s embrace amidst a noisy, increasingly crowded world. Passion for rustic style has waxed and waned over the decades, but it has never gone out of fashion. Like the log cabin itself, it is an iconic American expression that speaks to our history, our belief in the healing power of nature and our enduring desire to get away from it all.

American Rustic design found its highest expression in the last quarter of the nineteenth century in the expansive woodland fantasies that were the Great Camps of the Adirondacks and in monumental “parkitecture” epitomized by hotels like the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone and the Ahwahnee in Yosemite. But American rustic at its heart is not about grand statements. It’s about human-scaled environments and appropriateness to the landscape, and it can be found in every region of the country, from seaside shacks in Maine to log lean-tos on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It’s expressed in adobe haciendas, Craftsman bungalows, West Coast houseboats and Alaskan trappers’ cabins.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Building with Intention 9

Fresh Take on Traditional 19

Authentic Rustic 43

Sustainable Rustic 57

Artistic License 73

Lakeside Rustic 91

Dual Expressions 107

Creative Spaces for Work & Play 127

American Farm Idyll 145

Grand (Under)Statement 157

Rustic Revealed 175

New Rustic Tone, Texture & Whimsy 187

Acknowledgments 207

Sources 208

Editorial Reviews

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