At Home: Pasadena
Cooking, Eating, Gardening, Bathing, Playing, Working, Collecting, Growing, Retreating & Saving the World
Jill Alison Ganon & Sandy Gillis
Photography by Jennifer Cheung & Steven Nilsson
If there was ever a showcase for the American home, it's Pasadena. From its founding, Pasadena has been about home — and homes. Famed internationally for its Arts & Crafts bungalows, Pasadena is also about the longer architectural story that includes Queen Anne Victorians, Spanish haciendas, colonial revivals, grand Mediterranean villas, iconic midcentury moderns, sleek contemporary masters, modest rental cottages and a new wave of mixed-use urban architecture. For the past 130 years some of the nation's finest residential architects — Frederick Roehrig, Bertram Goodhue, Charles & Henry Greene, Wallace Neff, Marston & van Pelt, Richard Neutra, Buff & Hensman, Moule & Polyzides — have filled neighborhoods with homes and landscapes of diverse and lasting beauty.
This lushly illustrated new book explores the public and private spaces in the homes and gardens of Pasadena and her architecturally rich neighbors, from South Pasadena and San Marino to Altadena, Sierra Madre and Eagle Rock. The book is organized by the activities of daily life — cooking, playing, gardening and so on — so each chapter is filled with vivid color photographs and energetic text that takes readers in the front door, out the back door, and over to the rose garden in more than fifty homes.
You'll find diverse architectural styles and a rainbow of interior decorating and gardening ideas all gathered gorgeously in this book.
This book explores an American architectural treasure, revealing the gracious living that is done in Pasadena, at home.
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184 pages, 9-½" x 9-½", four-color printing on glossy paper, cloth hardbound with glossy, French-fold dust jacket, 101 large or full-page color photographs plus over 500 small (1/4-page or less) color photographs, resource guide, index.
Published by Prospect Park Books
ISBN 978-0-9753939-3-2. clothbound
$39.95
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