| Sonoma Valley Style: At Home in California's Wine Country | 
 enlarge | Author: Kathryn Masson
Creator: Steven Brooke
Publisher: Rizzoli
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 507260
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 9.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0847827208
Dewey Decimal Number: 645
EAN: 9780847827206
ASIN: 0847827208
Publication Date: June 7, 2005
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Contrasts and highlights a variety of elegant homes, from restored Mexican adobes to Victorian farmhouses October 12, 2005
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Author Kathryn Masson is a native Californian with access to some of the finest private homes and gardens in the area: Sonoma Valley Style: At Home In California's Wine Country pairs lovely color photos by Steven Brooke of both exteriors and interiors with Masson's feature of wine country homes and weekend retreats. Each home receives descriptions of the homeowner's goals, collaborations between architects and builders, and review of unique design attributes and challenges. From a historic Craftsman farmhouse to a 21st century interpretation of Arts and Crafts style, Sonoma Valley Style contrasts and highlights a variety of elegant homes, from restored Mexican adobes to Victorian farmhouses.
High Quality Writing/Photography/Printing August 25, 2005
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Sonoma Valley is not far from it's better known neighbor Napa Valley. What that really means is that it's not nearly as crowded with tourists. Still prime wine growing country the first vinyards date from the middle 1800's. It also seems that wine people tend to not be poor. The houses from the old vinyards are classical and elegant. The houses from the new vinyards are not bad either.
In this book you'll see a lot of kitchens with Viking type stovetops. There aren't many stoves from Sears purchased second hand. The book is a description of some of the more elegant houses in Sonoma Valley. It is profusely photographed by Steven Brooke an architectural photographer of reknown. His works include books on Rome, Jerusalem, Savannah, Napa and others. His pictures have a warm, creamy look that I find very inviting. The description that goes with the houses combines descriptive information with history and tales of the people who buile/remodeled them.
The book is about what you would expect of a coffee table book on a region: high quality pictures, high quality writing, high quality printing.
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