- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Universe Publishing (21 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0789304953
- ISBN-13: 978-0789304957
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 2.1 x 22.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,183,262 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Responds to a trend in American preferences for smaller homes with a tour of small-scale cottage residences in Carmel as they have been designed in the last 100 years, offering interior and exterior photographs.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
We hope to visit Carmel, on our holiday to California this summer. A friend showed us this attractive book. We purchased one and it would appear a very useful guide. (Our friend said that we would never see the cottages in Carmel as clearly as the author did because they are all enclosed by trees and gardens.) The photograph of 'Seaward,' designed by Mr Greene is almost worth the price of the book on its own. All in all a splendid job.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A little splendid book filled with inviting photographs. The history of Carmel was especially interesting to us. Highly recommended.
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Best Book Available on Carmel Cottages
21 Aug 2001
Format:Hardcover
I am an architect. I live near Carmel and have a special fascination for these houses. Applause to the author. There are lots of beautiful photographs and the history is facinating. I would always like to see more diagrams, interesting details and floor plans, especially for the house called "Hansel". However, this is an excellent book, the best one available on the subject.
19 of 19 people found the following review helpful
A glimpse of things unseen
13 Mar 2001
Format:Hardcover
My wife and I traveled to beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea in October. It was our first visit to that part of the US. I must say that we found all of the surrounding seashore from Big Sur to Monterey spectacular and unique.
During our all-too-brief stay in Carmel, we walked the tree-shaded streets and explored the white sand beach. We could see houses and cottages half-hidden behind spectacular foliage and vine-covered walls. They looked lived in and inviting. Of course, we strolled more or less randomly, following Carmel's narrow lanes where they would lead us.
At a local bookshop we purchased a copy of Cottages by the Sea. This excellent volume showed us what no uninvited guests could view on their own. We dreamed of being able to enter the gates that its author and her photographer did, and to view the warm interiors of the cottages whose exteriors we glimpsed. We were heartened by the author's quiet but firm thoughts about preserving Carmel, and villages like it from development and unplanned `progress.'
We had not known about Carmel's `artistic' past, and this book led us not only to Tor House, but to the poems of Robinson Jeffers, a volume of which we found in another shop. The illustrations in this book are wonderful. The text provides a brief history of a place that I can assume is like no other in America-or in the world.
We have one complaint. Some of the reproductions of documents and plans were too small to be legible. Perhaps they could be enlarged in a later edition? But all in all, this book added much to our experience of Carmel, and we highly recommend it to anyone who loves this type of modest domestic architecture. We have bought copies for our friends in the UK who plan to visit the US. And because of it, we hope to return to Carmel.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Utterly lovey!
7 Jun 2001
Format:Hardcover
I opened this book as one would a box of expensive hand-crafted Belgian chocolates and savored each page. The photos are luscious, the text tart and logical. Interior and exterior views of cottages and Jeffer's stone tower remind one of European villages.
Sarah Susanka's "Not So Big House" and "Creating the Not So Big House" are both good, yes, but nothing in them sets off the same resonate sensation as seeing "Cottages by the Sea." This is what real homes can be: shelters for the mind, body and spirit, places of rest, security and inspiration.
I'd write more, but excuse me---I'm booking a trip to Carmel.
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