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Once upon a time these New Mexico towns were rough-and-tumble settlements peopled by drifters and dreamers. Sante Fe and Taos are still very much a cultural rendezvous, but far removed from their humble beginnings; Sante Fe has lately become known as the Beverly Hills of the Southwestern U.S. Among its full-time residents are the Dennises, the husband and wife author-photographer team who host this tour of their neighbors' private homes. The owners and designers weigh in with their own words about creating these eclectic sanctuaries, making it a very personal tour.
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At last, a beautiful, affordable style book that offers a rare insider's look at the highly personal and innovative aesthetic for which the Southwest is famed. Santa Fe residents Lisl and Landt Dennis have documented eighteen of the most unusual and awe-inspiring homes and gardens of the Santa Fe and Taos area. Meet the owners and designers, tour their homes, and witness the grand vision and loving detail they have devoted to their living spaces. With two hundred gorgeous full-color photographs, Behind Adobe Walls is an essential keepsake for the Southwestern native or visitor, and a visual inspiration for anyone who would like to create their own Santa Fe, wherever they may call home.
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perfect.......2007-09-15
This book is EXACTLY what I was looking for. Perfect condition and rapid delivery. Excellent service.
Nice photography!.......2006-07-29
I am a native New Mexican and even though the others did comment on how nice a book about "real" New Mexicans would be, I do love this book for the excellent photography. It is on my coffee table now and I just love looking at it!
The photos ARE in color..........2003-08-07
Unfortunately, the sample pages are in black and white. Never fear, they're actually IN COLOR in the actual book!
Got this for my Mom, she loved it!
I Live Here!.......2001-05-01
I would NOT loan out my copy of this book! I live in Taos (moved AFTER reading the book) and have since been to some of these homes, they are wonderful...and not at all pretentious...as one reviewer said. I use this book even today for inspiration in my own Taos home.
Colorful inspiration.......2001-02-21
I was specifically on a quest for inspiration for Santa Fe style decorating with bold color schemes, somewhat off-the-wall furnishing choices and the like. This book fit my needs perfectly, I'm happy to say. I agree with other reviewers that the book is rather limited in scope, but it was exactly what I was looking for. Beautiful photographs, clear writing, overall a very dynamic book.
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Santa Fe-style decorating is a coast-to-coast trend. Hundreds of thousands have scoured Christine Mather’s previous books, eager to incorporate Santa Fe design elements into their own homes. Now, in
Santa Fe Houses, Mather combines concrete and practical home-decorating suggestions with the beautiful photographs of her longtime collaborator, Jack Parsons, creating an invaluable guide for anyone interested in building, decorating, or remodeling a home in Santa Fe style.
Santa Fe Houses draws inspiration from the four traditional Native American elements—fire, earth, water, and air—and shows how they can be used to wonderful effect in kitchens and dining rooms, entry-ways and living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms, porches, and patios. Along the way, Mather showcases furniture, rugs, lighting, hardware, tiles, shutters, and other expressions of the Santa Fe look, and ends with a comprehensive directory of sources.
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A glimpse inside.......2006-03-12
Wonderful. They are not all mansions, not all ethnic, just so well and individually done. I keep it on my coffee table with others in the same genre` and my guests have trouble putting it down.
Great!
A good referance book which also serves to inspire.......2003-04-08
We are building a 4000 sq. foot straw bale home in Oakville, Ontario Canada in an adobe style. There is NOTHING in Ontario to act as inspiration and we must rely on our numerous trips to New Mexico and Arizona to inspire us in the design of our home. This book had some lovely photos that got our imaginations stirred so we would recommend it to others in our circumstance. A good book if you need inspiration and you're miles away from the southwest. Most of the photographs are well shot and beautiful. It is amongst the many books we've ordered from this site and is one of the biggest, thankfully.
BEAUTIFUL BOOK!.......2002-05-07
This is a gorgeous book with amazing glossy pictures on every page.
After a visit to Santa Fe I got this book for my Mother. I thought that it would be a lovely Mother's Day gift.
There are 240 pages- and page 241 through 248 is the Santa Fe Directory.
Included in the directory are all types of companies relating to the home- and their addresses and phone numbers-such as: Adobe and Construction Companies, fireplace companies, wood product companies, decorative details, antique door companies, lighting companies, tile companies, and so on. Also in an index of Santa Fe bookshops, Santa Fe food stores, and Santa Fe plants and pots stores.
And 7 home preservation organizations are listed- with their address and phone numbers.
The chapters are divided into 4 categories: Earth, Fire, Water and Air.
In the Earth section:
Color: Native colors of the Earth
Season: Winter
Place: Pueblo
Rooms: Entryways and Salas
Collecting: Native American Art
In the Fire section:
Color: Santa Fe Red
Season: Fall/ Harvest
Place: The Hearth
RRooms: Kitchens and Dining Rooms
Collecting: Devotional Art
In the Water section:
Color: Taos Blue
Season: Spring
Place: Rivers and Acequias
Rooms: Bedrooms and Baths
Collecting: Ethnic Arts
In the Air section:
Color: Pink
Season: Summer
Place: Gardens
Rooms: Portals and Courtyards
Collecting: Garden Art
Within these categories are gorgeous photos of each type of theme. Fountains are one of the items featured in the water section.
Pictures of beautiful interior Santa Fe fireplaces are featured in the fire section, and so on.
I highly recommend this book. It is a lovely big coffee table book with incredible photos.
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Marley and Me meets All Creatures Great and Small, as an ailing but lovable orphan buffalo joins a Santa Fe household.
A sprawling suburban house in Santa Fe is not the kind of home where a buffalo normally roams, but Veryl Goodnight and Roger Brooks are not your ordinary animal lovers. Over a hundred years after Veryl's ancestors, Charles and Mary Ann Goodnight, hand-raised two baby buffalo to help save the species from extinction, the sculptor and her husband adopt an orphaned buffalo calf of their own. Against a backdrop of the old American West, A Buffalo in the House tells the story of a household situation beyond any sitcom writer's wildest dreams
Charlie has no idea he's a buffalo and Roger has no idea just how strong the bond between man and buffalo can be. In the historical shadow of the near-extermination of a majestic and misunderstood animal, Roger sets out to save just one buffalo. Written in the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains and the work of Garrison Keillor and Bill Bryson, A Buffalo in the House tells an important, uplifting story about one animal's ability to touch human lives and reconnect people of all ages to the vanished past.
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A MUST READ BOOK!!!!.......2007-09-26
YOU ABSOLUTELY MUST READ THIS BOOK & GET EVERYONE YOU KNOW TO READ IT TOO. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. RICHARD ROSEN WRITES IN SUCH A WAY YOU FEEL YOU KNOW ROGER, VERYL & CHARLIE AS FRIENDS AT THE END. NOT ONLY IS IT ENTERTAINING WITH ROMANCE, DRAMA, HUMOR AND TEARS, YOU'LL LEARN ALOT ABOUT OUR AMERICAN BUFFALO AND THEIR CURRENT PLIGHT. A GREAT BOOK--IT SHOULD BE MADE INTO A MOVIE.
SUZANNE DRAGAN "ANIMAL TALK" 1450AM WCTC NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ
Wonderful true tale.......2007-09-24
I thouroughly enjoyed this fabulous true tale of the love of a man and woman for an animal, in this case a wild bison, which makes for an unusual situation. It was well written and completely enjoyable from start to finish and I had a few tears along the way.
A One-ton Pet That's Not A Horse.......2007-09-21
Buffalo are not exactly new to me. About sixty miles south of the little Western Oklahoma town where I was reared there was a game preserve near Lawton and Ft. Sill with buffalo we would see on our annual summer vacation trip to my grandparents ranch near Ardmore.
The herd grew each year and a few were killed. One year some guy conned my father into buying a quarter of a buffalo because it was much cheaper than the beef we could not afford.
My mother was a great cook but she never mastered cooking buffalo roasts or other dishes that were not flat and tasteless. Today the finest restaurants have buffalo steaks and meatloaf on the menu and you can buy it ground at supermarkets.
As I began to go to Colorado on trips year around I would see the buffalo on the north side of I-70 west of Denver near the Evergreen or Chief Hosa exits.
But my first close up with a buffalo was when I did one of the dumbest and most dangerous things in my life - a solo snowmobile trip around the lower circle of Yellowstone in January.
I had a great distaste for snowmobiles but it was either that or going to West Yellowstone for one of the group tourist rides.
In Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I left my hotel about 3 a.m. one morning for Flagg Ranch just outside the southern gate to Yellowstone where snowmobiles were rented.
The Flagg people put me in a well-insulated snowsuit, instructed me on operating the snowmobile and then there was a final warning to, if around buffalo, always keep your snowmobile between yourself and the bison.
I left when it was still dark but daylight opened up a cloudless, blue sky and I arrived at Old Faithful just in time to get a fancy new Sony video camera out of my backpack to shoot the geyser.
All day I scofflawed the Yellowstone speed limit and stopped only to refuel and drink something hot.
About four that afternoon nearing sunset I encountered a large buffalo bull facing me on the road he seemed to feel was his own. I stopped, killed the engine and hastily got my video camera ready.
The bull started to approach me directly. As the tape rolled, the only sound heard was the crunch, crunch, crunch of his feet on the frozen road. Wow. I thought I had myself some real footage a wildlife documentary maker would kill for.
As the bull neared the front of my machine, he suddenly turned and walked into the woods.
I put the camera away and continued on in the darkness. Had I an accident or any other problem, it is doubtful I could have survived the night in sub-zero temperatures.
As for my great tape, the sound on the camera was defective and without it the footage of the bull coming at me was useless.
Years later I was driving from Arizona to Colorado and stopped north of Santa Fe to have a short visit with Veryl Goodnight, a noted sculptress, and her husband Roger Brooks at their ranch.
It was late morning and Roger and I were sitting in their yard having a beer when I felt something nudge my shoulder. Turning, I again was face to face with a buffalo bull but a little one this time - Charlie, their pet acquired to be a model for one of Veryl's most important pieces of sculpture, "Back From the Brink."
During the next few years Roger and Veryl kept friends up to date on Charlie through emails and mailings. But only a few friends knew of the drama unfolding on the Brooks/Goodnight ranch.
"Buffalo in the House" is the story with as many sharp, steep turns as a narrow road down a mountain.
In the early months Roger and Charlie bonded. Not with Elmer's glue, but epoxy.
It doesn't give much of the story away to tell potential readers that when Charlie was moved to a buffalo ranch at 400 pounds, the little bull did not bond with other buffalo there. So back Charlie came to the Brooks/Goodnight ranch.
I knew of Roger's and Veryl's love of animals. What I didn't know was the extent of their love of animals, especially Charlie, was so deep and totally committed.
In a very small way this gripping story reminds me of my last dog, a former county pound mutt.
He was friendly and gentle unless his instincts gave a sense someone might be threatening to "his boy," my youngest son, or my former wife and me.
She read where the maximum number of words a dog could learn was around 30. We figured our mutt knew twice that number.
The mutt became sick and his illness tested both the limits of our love as well as finances.
Most Amercans will never see a real buffalo. But you can get to know one in "Buffalo in the House."
Cried Buffalo Tears.......2007-08-26
I never expected to be so touched by a book about a buffalo. A poignant story about a person's relationship with a buffalo, along with historical facts about the plight of the buffalo. Great idea!
leaves an aching heart.......2007-08-24
I am always such a sucker for animal stories - I must like to cry! How I admire this husband and wife for their love and devotion to this wonderful creature. I am always so amazed at how STUPID the human race is - we have very little respect for history - and do over and over the same dumb things. God bless Charlie's memory - and I do hope there is a Rainbow Bridge for us to see again the animals we have loved and lost in this life - I hope my precious Juanita is waiting for me.
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Recent U.S. Census Bureau information shows that the southwest holds incredible gravitational pull for a great number of Americans, more and more of whom are moving to live among the deserts, plateaus, distinctive mountains, and glorious red and orange sunsets that only the west can provide.
Americans have been hungering for the wide-open skies of the west since the early days of this country and out of their continuing migration has sprung Santa Fe, which continues to grow in importance, in meaning, and in influence.
Santa Fe's popularity is immense. The "Santa Fe style" can now be found all over the country, manifested in clothes, furniture and furnishings, and interior design. Santa Fe: Houses and Gardens, with its sumptuous photography and lucid prose, makes clear that this popularity is well-founded.
Santa-Fe: Houses and Gardens presents the most significant and influential houses of the region, including Mabel Dodge's house of 1918, with its hand-painted windows by D. H. Lawrence; the house of Randall Davey, an artist who was influential in the movement to revive traditional adobe building techniques; and the Myrtle Stedman house, built following her injunction that it be "stretched out like a lizard in the sun." This book does not limit itself to traditional historic adobe houses, but covers many of the region's most important private homes and museum houses with their gardens.
Customer Reviews:
Perfect.......2007-09-15
This book is exactly what I was looking for. Perfect condition and rapid delivery. Great service.
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southwest inspiration Transport yourself to the warmth and mystery of the desert with a home inspired by the age-old materials and cultural richness of the American Southwest. 120 designs in Santa Fe, Spanish, and Contemporary styles provide the very best the region has to offer.
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500 photos. Line drawings show Southwestern houses, their interior and exterior details.
Customer Reviews:
A treasure for architects and serious decorators.......2003-01-14
Any architect or serious interior decorator exploring, or deeply into, the southwestern style will not be disappointed with this book. It is filled with hundreds of photos of interior and exterior features, including wide-angle views encompassing entire rooms, showing southwest fine art and artifacts in a domestic context. Don't be surprised that most of the photos are black and white--although there are dozens of color photos too. Instead, appreciate the play of light and shadow that finely crafted adobe structures have at their command. Black and white photos show this in high contrast. But don't let the photos overshadow the text that will provide an education to adobe architects of all levels. Anyone iiving in a true adobe, and wants to follow a classic southwest theme, will find lots of inspiration--and then the hunt will be on to find the kind of indigenous southwest decor seen here.
The ABC's of Santa Fe style homes.......1999-05-04
This book offers all one could want in the way of Santa Fe style home building. Seeing the interiors of actual Southwest homes is a huge inspiration when decorating. Filled with many informative photos.
Architectural details of Adobe Homes.......1999-04-19
This should be titled Architectural Details of Adobe Homes of New Mexico." The author has lived in Santa Fe and clearly loves it. The reader will get many ideas from the photographs of existing New Mexican homes to incorporate into their adobe home. However, I must say that after awhile, everything being wonderful, unsurpassed, great, wears thin.
Misleading Title.......1999-03-27
This book is a historical archive of what are referred to as homes. Mostly black and white photos of Indian dwellings that does not lend to actual interior decorating. This title belongs to the history section in a high school library. I had purchased and returned this work in the same breath.
This should be titled "A history of SouthWest interiors"........1999-03-01
When I purchased the book I thought that it would present a modern overview of southwestern interior design; however, it offered a historical overview complete with hundreds of black and white photos of ancient architect. If your looking for a history lesson without going to the museum, then this is the book for you. Incidentally, I returned it immediatly. It does have a fancy title though.
Book Description
Entrepreneur Fred Harvey began establishing high-quality dining rooms along the Santa Fe Railway in 1876. His Harvey Houses helped change the entire picture of the American West. The Harvey House Cookbook recaptures the spirit of the first western rail excursions with 200-plus vintage recipes, many simple to prepare; numerous period photos; and the story of Fred Harvey himself.
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- Adobe Angels-The Ghosts of Santa Fe and Taos
- For the mystical traveler
- a must read for all locals, and perspective visitors
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Adobe Angels : The Ghosts of Santa Fe and Taos (Ghosts of Santa Fe & Taos, No.3)
Antonio R. Garcez
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Adobe Angels: Arizona Ghost Stories
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Adobe Angels: Ghost Stories of O'Keeffe Country (Adobe Angels Series)
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This second in the Adobe Angels series is filled with photographs and first-hand account interviews. The author has embarked the reader on a dream world tour of Albuquerque.
Customer Reviews:
Adobe Angels-The Ghosts of Santa Fe and Taos.......1999-12-18
I do believe in spooks! I do believe in spooks. Or, I don't. It's one of those, anyway. Just about everyone falls into one or the other category. Some, probably, are in the disbelieve-but-don't-take-a-chance-of-offending middle ground. Believing, however, has never been a requirement for enjoying a good ghost story. The Ghosts of Santa Fe and Taos at its best is a very good ghost story -- at its worst, it's still an unusual and entertaining new slant on regional history and a much-needed record of oral histories. Garcez' Adobe Angels series takes a serious look at the supernatural side of New Mexico. After giving the ready a healthy dose of history about the area, the haunted structures, and the people -- Indian, Mexican, Anglo -- who settled and resettled the state. Few areas of the United States have been as hotly disputed and changed hands so many times. Maybe that's what makes for the tenacious nature of the spirits that reportedly cling to their territory. In conversations with individuals who have recounted their brushes with these ghosts, Garcez offers first-hand accounts of the hauntings. The storytellers in The Ghosts of Santa Fe and Taos share tales of ghosts -- both benevolent and malevolent. Sister George, the big-hearted nun who roams the grounds of her old school, is one of the good Samaritans who linger. In Taos Pueblo, Indian spirits appear to those spending a night sleeping under the stars. The sad cries of an infant haunt the sterile halls of La Residencia hospital. And demons reach out from the other side to terrify and wreak havoc on those foolish enough to call to them. Taken as factual accounts or as imaginative storytelling, the narratives make for almost compulsive reading. Even in the sections where the "ghosts" manifest as little more than a footfall or a feeling of being watched, the background information is enough to carry the reader through to the, shall we say, juicier segments. Okay, not every spirit can be chilling or dangerous or heartrending. If The Ghosts of Santa Fe and Taos catches your attention, you don't have to stop there. Garcez has continued his quest, documenting the ghosts of Albuquerque, Las Cruces and Southern New Mexico, and even extended his search into Arizona. Try one or devour them all. I just might go for the entire series. I could use a course in the history of the Southwest, and this is the most painless path I've discovered. Reviewed by, Lisa DuMond Trexler, SF Site, MEviews
For the mystical traveler.......1999-04-29
This collection of true, modern, first-hand ghost stories was carefully collected and lavishly supported by photos. Antonio Garcez, in addition to being a fluent and congruent writer, is imminently qualified to write this book. The son of Native American healers, Garcez grew up in Santa Fe and has long been familiar with the presence of the spirit world and its interaction with the physical one.
With a sure hand and a gentle voice, Garcez leads us through stories of sorrow and surprise, healing and horror, without embellishment and without judgment. The accurate and seamless interviews ring with a realistic voice - the tellers of their personal tales are believable and sincere. Some of the accounts are intriguing or light-hearted, while others are downright bone-chilling. May the benevolent spirits bless Garcez for giving the witnesses a voice, and protect him from the malevolent ones.
Garcez begins with Santa Fe, and includes important historical information, and corroborative evidence. Moving onto Taos, the accounts carry the "feel" of authenticity and the tone of voice of people who have experienced otherworldly contact and accepted it. Garcez concludes where the spiritual essence of New Mexico begins - with the spirit vision of one of her Native peoples.
Review by Catt Foy
a must read for all locals, and perspective visitors.......1999-03-19
This a very interesting and eye opening book about the culture, and history of Santa Fe. Every local should read this one.
Customer Reviews:
Luxury for the eyes!.......2000-02-27
This is a beautiful book, full of color photos of old and new (mostly new) Santa Fe style homes. If you are looking for how-to advice, historical description, or much text at all, this book is not for you. However, it was a perfect choice for me, since I was (still am) designing a new home and wanted a wide variety of examples of southwest homes. There are chapters on entrances, courtyards, and individual rooms, each page filled with wonderful views of both traditional and more contemporary details. The last section of the book (about 75 pages) focuses on Santa Fe arts, and features baskets, pottery, kachina dolls, furniture, sculpture, paintings and more. A friend loaned this book to me nine months ago, and after turning pages dozens of times and marking favorites with sticky notes, I finally decided to break down and give myself the gift of my own personal copy.
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- In many ways Cuentos tells the American story.
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Cuentos from the House on West Connecticut Avenue
Marta A. Lomeli
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Hysterically funny and always thought provoking, Cuentos from the House on West Connecticut Avenue takes you back to a time and place where the children thought they could fly.
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In many ways Cuentos tells the American story........2004-02-16
Cuentos from the House on West Connecticut Avenue is filled with stories that allowed me to see the American experience through the eyes of a family new to this country, and it is written with enough skill to make it easy for me to feel at home with all of them. Recommended for anyone who enjoys remembering (or would like to be reminded of) why family is among the greatest blessings we have.
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