Living in New England

by Elaine Louie, Sølvi Dos Santos, Solvi dos Santos

Book Overview

Just as New England served as the cradle of so much of American history, so, too, has the architecture of New England come to define the American idea of home. From the colonial farmhouse in the Rhode... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743203755
• ISBN13: 9780743203753
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.1" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Photographs and Great Decorating Ideas

What a wonderful book! Both the prose and photos are terrific. The authors have truly captured the essence of New England and country life. As a new owner of one of the 25 profiled homes, I can honestly say (o.k., I am a little biased) that this is a book worth buying. SRS

This book made me homesick

I was browsing among the impoverished English-language section in a local bookstore and this immediately caught my eye with both title and jacket photo. I grew up and went to college in New England and it will always be called home-thus the nostalgia. This lovely and evocative book combines photography that you can drink in (and be transported by) with a very readable text...I find very often in "coffee-table" photo books the accompanying text is either boring or excessively esoteric. This is neither. Dos Santos' impeccable technical skill is obvious, although there is a slight bias toward a stereotypical New England simple-and-spartan ethic as far as subject choice goes. Overlook it and give this book a once-through. You won't regret it.