- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Sep 28 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0684844222
- ISBN-13: 978-0684844220
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 23.8 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #408,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The craze for "getting away from it all" in buildings of log, stone, and unpainted lumber has been a part of American life since the 1800s. From the Gilded Age retreats of the Catskills and Adirondacks to the rugged Wild West lodges of Yellowstone and Yosemite, Cabin Fever celebrates the architectural elements that make cabin style unique: gleaming hand-peeled and polished logs, cowhide sofas, and river-rock fireplaces. Some are large, old, and built as public lodgings, like Putnam Camp, the Adirondack summer retreat founded by philosopher William James, which still has the cheerful austerity it had when Freud and Jung mingled there with Harvard academicians. Others, like the grand hunting lodge nestled on the edge of a marsh, are more recent monuments to quirky private visions of the perfect rustic retreat. Rooms in both are accessorized with animal heads, native American blankets and art, snowshoes, antler chandeliers, and willow twig furniture. The book's appendix includes catalog sources for everything from small wooden summerhouses to buffalo-plaid blankets, and a list of hotels in the grand old style (like Yosemite's Ahwahnee and the Grand Canyon's El Tovar). Even if you can't have a piece of the wilderness to call your own (and the burl furniture to match), you can still enjoy the rustic yet substantial comforts of Cabin Fever.
From Library Journal
The log and stone camps and lodges in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, which gave city dwellers a place to escape, have become synonymous with rustic style. Carley examines the architecture and interiors of this turn-of-the-century style through history and photographs of buildings such as Sagamore lodge in the Adirondacks as well as contemporary dwellings that echo this rustic style throughout the United States. Kylloe, a dealer and collector of rustic furniture and decorative accessories, examines furnishings and provides a history of the style and its manufacturers and designers. Carley has photos of individual items of furniture, Kylloe focuses on showing the furniture in its rustic setting with captions showing history and provenance?conflicting approaches that complement each other.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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William Distin, a well-known architect in New York's Adirondack Mountains in the early 1900s, once designed a bark-covered vacation lodge for an affluent client, who promptly set sail for Europe. Read the first page
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
William Distin, a well-known architect in New York's Adirondack Mountains in the early 1900s, once designed a bark-covered vacation lodge for an affluent client, who promptly set sail for Europe. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding photographs,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cabin Fever (Hardcover)
I have been searching for books for months now that would give me real life examples of cabin type homes to use in designing my country home. While there are a lot of books out there on small cabins, I was looking for a book that showed examples that I could incorporate into a larger home. This book is exactly what I was looking for! The photographs are beautiful and truly capture some of the key elements that make these homes special. The author has managed to find some of the best examples out there of truly beautiful, well designed log/natural material homes.In addition to the photographs, the narative is also quite entertaining. It helps the reader understand some of the thinking that went into the creation of these great spaces. If you are looking for a very enjoyable book with wonderful pictures of a vast collection of cabins (both small and large), then this is the book you have been looking for! I know it was for me; I already have dozens of ideas that I plan on incorporating into my, not so small, cabin. Enjoy!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cabin Fever,
By A Customer
This review is from: Cabin Fever (Hardcover)
Excellent book with great pirctures of rustic rooms and homes. Great decorating ideas!
4.0 out of 5 stars
See the log cabin of your dreams....,
By Bikkiebaby "bikkiebaby" (Greenvegas, SC United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cabin Fever (Hardcover)
A great coffee table book for your house or mountain cabin! Most of these "vacation homes" are nicer than our regular houses. Great to curl up with this book in front of the fire.
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