Mexican Country Style - Softcover

Witynski, Karen; Carr, Joe P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1586852558 ISBN 13: 9781586852559

Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc, 2003

Synopsis

A celebration of authentic Mexican country style draws on the experiences of the authors' visits to coastal villages and colonial mining towns, during which they discovered the culturally diverse influences that shaped everyday objects. Reprint.

About this title

From the Author:

House Beautiful Magazine, October '97
"...Robust carved furnishings, mesquite kitchen tools, and gaily painted doors are splashed throughout Mexican Country Style by Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr, antiques dealers/designers who have trekked from Acapulco to Zacatecas uncovering pieces in markets and remote mountain villages..."

From the Back Cover:

For decades, Mexico's countryside has startled visitors senses with the rich flavor of its tradition-bound world. Charmed by the character and ingenuity of the Mexican people, lovers of country style are irresistibly drawn to the rugged romantic beauty of the native architecture and the soulful antiquity of their handcrafted elements. The markings and textures that decades of time and wear have left on the indigenous furnishings and objects are character marks, alive with history, color, and personality.
Mexican Country Style is a celebration of this style's simple splendor, which is sweeping the country and making its way into the homes or offices of Jane Fonda and Ted Turner, Ralph Lauren, Val Kilmer, and Gene Hackman.
Nelson A. Rockefeller said of Mexico that "Its people have a love and understanding of the importance of the ordinary to the essential vitality of life. Instinctual, the mundane things made to carry out everyday acts, are all valuable and worthy of the greatest creative expression, (which is evident) in their lasting value and in the skill of their creators, their sense of sacredness of the routines of their daily lives."

About this edition

• Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1586852558
• ISBN 13: 9781586852559
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160