American Modern Vernacular: Jacobsen Architecture + Interiors
Author/Editor | Jacobsen, Simon (Author) |
| Paul (Author) |
ISBN: 9780847872053
Pub Date | 25/10/2022 |
Binding | Hardback |
Pages | 272 |
Dimensions (mm) | 279(h) * 279(w) |
Those who bought Bobby McAlpine's Poetry of Place and The Home Within Us or Gil Schafer's A Place to Call Home will respond to the warm and sophisticated work of Hugh and Simon Jacobsen, whose style of architecture and interiors might best be described as American Modern Vernacular-the place where traditional and modern meet.
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Hugh Newell Jacobson, the legendary architect and late co-founder with his son, Simon, of Jacobsen Architecture, once famously said the best house is polite to her neighbours and never shouts. This statement is a key to the philosophy of the firm, whose much loved houses are suffused with a kind of quiet sophistication that mingle elegant, subtle modernism, with great respect for local vernacular traditions. Featured here are exemplars of the firm s work, from Harbor Hill a cluster of 12 small structures, appearing at first as a group of smallish classic shingled Nantucket cottages, that reveals itself as a single serene residence overlooking Nantucket Harbor to Windsor, an award-winning Florida Colonial abstraction in Vero Beach. Featuring inviting interiors, exteriors, and gardens, the book is an expression of eloquent design.