Santa Barbara Style

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Santa Barbara. For centuries this temperate, inviting locale has glowed with subtle but unmistakable light– a beacon of warmth beside the profound blue of the Pacific. From the Chumash, whose predecessors will also be traced to 11,000 b.c.e., to the current-day resident, vacationer, and tourist, diverse and countless peoples have been enchanted and enraptured by Santa Barbara’s spell.

In Santa Barbara Style, creator Kathryn Masson and photographer James Chen, invoke this magic and invite us to stroll with them through winding and abundant gardens, onto the grounds of grand estates, and into the nice houses of this region. Here we discover the work of such architectural luminaries as Addison Mizner, Bertram Goodhue, and Reginald D. Johnson. We wander from the historic adobe mansion Casa de la Guerra– built within the early-nineteenth century by the city patriarch Jose de la Guerra– to the spectacular, and aptly named, Villa Lucia (House of the Light)– built in 1989. We are given an intimate have a look at George Washington Smith’s Spanish Colonial Revival masterpiece, Casa del Herrero; and a broad view of Lotusland, the thirty-seven acre horticultural paradise. With each and every turn of the page, we see the beauty, grace, and style of Santa Barbara.

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