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By Rhondo Eleish & Edie von Breems
By Chloe
Gibbs Smith, $SC.CS
Merrell, $Sq.qS
Eleish and van Breems and their accomplices, photographers Jon Monson and L. Langdon Ergmann, capture the rionderland that is Swedish style
Rasmussen, a travel and interiors photographeq and Grimshaw, an art, design ancl travel writer, spent a year
in Arnerica. From lighrfilled, white-
ary hedonists' paradise to unearth
painted Gustavian perfection to Karl Larsson-esque themes, from sodroofed prairie home companions to
scouring the back roads of this legend-
heritage and aesthetic assimilation. As
private residences and exclusive hotels that make this book, and the island itself, such a saturating, sensual feast. The many and varied pleasures that Rasmussen and Grimshaw discovered tumble more or less neatly into every-
Albert Hadlev notes in one of two
day categories chapter by
foreu'ords. the other u'ritten by Miguel Flores-\-ianna. 'one is enchanted, and, _ves. a bit surprised. bv the multitude of examples. . .that shos- Sw-edish design in all its charm anci beauty, very rnuch 'at home' in American houses."
rary style, vintage inspiration, cool minimalism and natural living. Yet the magical place that the creators of lbiza Style document could not
uber-chic urban retreats, the spaces in
this alluring book speak of cultural
chapter:
coastal chic, rural retreat, contempo-
be less quotidian.
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Edlted by Toshio Nokomuro The Monocelli Press, $95 "My place in New Canaan is a kind oi 'diary of an eccentric architect,'" wrote Philip Johnson in 1993 about his forn--
odd-acre Connecticut property with its nowJegendary glass hor-rse (1949t.
As for the
outbuildings, Johnson
noted, "Since 1950 the diary continues with the sometimes chameleon-like quickness of my changes of approach to the art of architecture." In this book. Nlkamura captrlres llrat rare sense ol the personal in a place with photogra-
pher Michael Moran and graphic designer Michael Rock of 2X4. Johnson gave the property to the National Trusr
for Historic estate.
Preservation as a life 2007, it opened to the
In April
public for tours.
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