Austin Val Verde

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781890449391
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press/Balcony Press
Hardcover, 144 pages
22,2 x 30,5 cm
colour/black & white
September 2006
€38,00 (excl. VAT)

Austin Val Verde

A Montecito Masterpiece

Berge Aran

Montecito, California is home to some of America’s most spectacular private residences. Most amazing perhaps is Val Verde, the house built in 1915 on a breathtaking seventeen-and-one-half-acre coastal plot by American architect Bertram Goodhue. Besides its status as the most preserved of the great early-20th-century Southern California estate properties, Val Verde also bears the distinction of being the earliest American free-standing single-family house in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Austin Val Verde: A Montecito Masterpiece is the first book to reveal the full extent and richness of Val Verde’s architecture, interiors, and gardens. The book includes never-before-published color photographs of the house and its gardens.