Great Escapes
Miller, Judith & Martin Compilers
Language: English
Published by Ryland Peters & Small, 2000
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Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Cream cloth with bright silver titling on spine. Illustrated end papers.Colour Photographs. 142 pages clean and tight. From Roman emperors in their country villas to Europe's ruling classes with their hunting lodges and rural estates, people have always sought to escape the mundane realities of life. In the America of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, industrial tycoons headed for the mountains, while in eighteenth-century Europe, perhaps the most extravagant escape was that of Queen Marie-Antoinette, whose Petit Hameau at Versailles enabled her to play at being a milkmaid. In modern times, a fortunate few have managed to achieve a similar state of bliss by retreating to homes in some of the world's most beautiful locations. Here, in mountains, hills, woods and waterscapes, these Lucky people have found rest and relaxation - somewhere to restore their spirits and recharge their batteries. Great Escapes celebrates each glorious hideaway in turn, be it a tiny fisherman's cottage on the Moroccan coast, a chalet in the Swiss Alps, a secluded Welsh farmhouse, or a concrete and glass water tower in a wooded copse. In every case the result is idiosyncratic - a dazzling combination of environment and the proprietor's personality. These are homes whose atmosphere will haunt you long after you have closed the pages of the book. Size: 4to.…
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- Title
- Great Escapes
- Author
- Miller, Judith & Martin Compilers
- Publisher
- Ryland Peters & Small
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1841721069
- ISBN 13
- 9781841721064
- Illustrator
- Colour Photographs
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Location dictates the structure of the book with chapters on Rural Escapes, Waterside Escapes, Mountain Escapes and so on. These retreats range from a steel-decked futuristic super-structure that overlooks the LA skyline, to a quaint ski lodge nestled in the Swiss Alps to a medieval castle in the hills of Sicily. The text, supplied by Judith Miller, is detailed and engaging, providing insight into the inspiration and working plans behind these beautiful homes, though you might be able to live without some of the pseudo-philosophical observations that spring up from time to time. Great Escapes also outlines the extraordinary lengths that some people go to in order to relax. A key example being the architect who has to take a flight from Mexico City, travel for hours by four-wheel drive, ford a river that may or not be impassable depending on weather, then trek through the jungle before arriving at his beach house. How relaxing!
Apart from the fact that without exception the properties contained in this book are simply amazing, it's more than just a real estate catalogue for the well-heeled. Those of us with more down-to-earth means can still benefit from Great Escapes as a reference guide for some innovative colour schemes, bizarre building materials and ingenious furnishings and use as inspiration for design plans that might otherwise have passed us by. So, even if you don't win the lottery, you still have a fighting chance of transforming your existing living space into something more unusual. Great Escapes may help you steal some of the decorating secrets that the wealthy few have literally paid a fortune for. --Tony Martin
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