American Rustic - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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

Audrey Hall has been working with a camera for two decades. Her career in the visual arts includes over a hundred feature, commercial, documentary, book and fine art projects for a wide variety of national and international clients. A Rotary scholar, she studied photography at the renowned Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She lives in Montana.

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American Rustic gives readers an intimate look at rustic decorating and architecture, presenting a fresh, contemporary take brought to life by the genre's foremost designers. Showcasing homes from coast to coast, American Rustic reveals New York farms, Santa Fe casitas, an equestrian ranch on the Yellowstone River, a secretly high-tech Montana cabin, and of course a number of mountain homes, each tailored to the unique area and climate it inhabits, exhibiting Rustic architecture's primary inspiration and concern: a strong sense of place.

Each space is consistently highly original and meticulously crafted, thoughtfully conceived, sensitively sited and beautifully executed. Exquisite photography and expert discussion open windows into dream retreats that fulfill a yearning for a simpler life in a chaotic world.

About the Author

Chase Reynolds Ewald has been writing about food, design, travel and lifestyle in the West and beyond 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. This is her eighth book and her third collaboraton with Audrey Hall.

About the Photographer

Audrey Hall's images about culture, style and travel are diversely featured, from social media campaigns to television. She was recently on the road in Africa, Haiti and domestically with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof for the PBS series A Path Appears. This is her tenth book.

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American Rustic gives readers an intimate look at rustic decorating and architecture, presenting a fresh, contemporary take brought to life by the genre s foremost designers. Showcasing homes from coast to coast, American Rustic reveals New York farms, Santa Fe casitas, an equestrian ranch on the Yellowstone River, a secretly high-tech Montana cabin, and of course a number of mountain homes, each tailored to the unique area and climate it inhabits, exhibiting Rustic architecture s primary inspiration and concern: a strong sense of place.

Each space is consistently highly original and meticulously crafted, thoughtfully conceived, sensitively sited and beautifully executed. Exquisite photography and expert discussion open windows into dream retreats that fulfill a yearning for a simpler life in a chaotic world.

About the Author

Chase Reynolds Ewald has been writing about food, design, travel and lifestyle in the West and beyond 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. This is her eighth book and her third collaboraton with Audrey Hall.

About the Photographer

Audrey Hall s images about culture, style and travel are diversely featured, from social media campaigns to television. She was recently on the road in Africa, Haiti and domestically with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof for the PBS series A Path Appears. This is her tenth book.

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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.