Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House Format:Hardcover 260 illustrations Hardcover: 288 pages

260 illustrations Hardcover: 288 pages

Ben Rahn has been photographing architecture and interiors for more than twenty years

In their design and construction these houses honor the vernacular traditions of craft and indigenous materials are deeply respectful of the cherished landscape and demonstrate a lively range of solutions to building on the bluffs and dunes that line the shores of the Vineyard and Cape Cod

Scott Fitzgerald Thomas Wolfe Teddy Roosevelt John Singer Sargent James Whistler Henry James and Edith Wharton

Yet at the same time more and more city dwellers are yearning for rural farms mountain cabins or seaside homes

Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House Format:Hardcover 260 illustrations Hardcover: 288 pagesA celebration of the uniquely vibrant architecture and interiors of classic and new Spanish style houses in the southwestern and southern United States Mexico and Spain. Casa Bohemia showcases a collection of some of the most beautifully preserved Spanish style houses from restored haciendas in Mexico to early and recent 20th century California mission styles. Twenty nine residences built between the late seventeenth century and the present day are