Description
A community of fewer than 50,000 inhabitants, Santa Fe has had an affect on American culture far greater than its size. The Spanish colonists who founded the town in 1608 adapted their European tradition to the Pueblo Indian building materials and methods, creating an architecture that may be unique on the earth. The trade routes and the opening of the railroad brought ranchers and farmers from the East; and spectacular surroundings of mountains and high desert drew twentieth-century writers and artists from D. H. Lawrence to Georgia O’Keeffe. Each new wave of settlers added to the Santa Fe legend and the Santa Fe style.
Here isn’t just the romance of Santa Fe, but the impossible to resist appeal of its way of life– a casual elegance enlivened by a dynamic, ever-changing mixture of the old and the new, the West and the East, the plain and the sophisticated. Along with the big variety of design ideas offered by the illustrations is a list of sources directing readers to Santa Fe merchants and services and products.