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Villa
	Author: John Saladino Publisher: Frances Lincoln Category: Book List Price: ~~$95.00~~ Buy New: $56.86 as of 11/7/2009 14:19 EST details You Save: $38.14 (40%) Seller: innerselfmarket Rating: 11 reviews Sales Rank: 7336 Media: Hardcover Edition: Har/DVD Pages: 256 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 7.1 Dimensions (in): 13.3 x 13.2 x 0.9 ISBN: 0711229686 Dewey Decimal Number: 729 EAN: 9780711229686 ASIN: 0711229686 Publication Date: March 24, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Product Description John Saladino's powerful new book is nothing less than a master class in interior and garden design. Villa focuses on the stone ruin in Southern California that Saladino painstakingly refashioned into his dream house, and it shows how his principles and passions guided him through the five-year process of reconstruction, restoration, and decoration. With the aid of plans and drawings, as well as numerous photographs of the house â how it looked in the 1920s, shots of when he bought it, and snaps taken during reconstruction â Saladino traces the architectural work involved. Then, in a superbly illustrated tour of the house and grounds, he proves that he practices what heâs preached for more than 30 years. Juxtaposing light and dark, old and new, classical and modern, monumental and miniscule, hard and soft, Saladino creates the serenely timeless interiors and gardens that are his hallmark.

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 11 1 2 3 Next » a dream of a house, a dream of a book September 17, 2009 Jesse Kornbluth (New York) 6 out of 6 found this review helpful When the songwriter and singer Curtis Mayfield was at a low point in his career, he made sure he went to the movies every day. Why? "It's important to dream," he said. Wise man. The "reality" we're sold in the media can't possibly define the limits of our lives. To think so is to invite despair. So we look for beauty, for inspiration. But when we find it in museums, in music or in books, it doesn't always speak to us --- it's not immediate enough, we don't have the vocabulary to process it. A beautiful house? That we can understand. We may not get the subtleties of the architecture or the décor, but we all have walls, windows, floors and furniture --- comparisons are inevitable and immediate. If you're going to look at a home of a professional, you can't go wrong with John Saladino, America's most gifted architectural designer. (Not "interior" designer --- Saladino has a large, holistic sense of what a house can be, and that very much includes its site.) In 2001, he bought a 2,500-square-foot villa near Santa Barbara that was well on its way to ruin. Four years later, it is a treasure and then some --- it's simply one of the most beautiful houses in the world. And now it's the subject of a dream of a book. Villa is 13.5 inches square. It contains an informative and chatty commentary by Saladino, 256 photographs, plans and drawings, and a DVD that gives you a tour of the house and property. Let us hope that Saladino has a state-of-the-art security system, because every page and image is an invitation for you to break in --- not to take anything, just to experience what it's like to walk in beauty. "Reality is the enemy," Saladino writes, and so he created an environment that might look natural, but is really sculpted. (The project, he says, was "75% construction, 25% decoration".) Set on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific, he first had to shore up the land, so his creation wouldn't go sliding off its moorings in a landslide. Then he had to attack decades of unfortunate decorating choices. It took six men a year to sandblast the paint off the stone walls. Terra cotta tiles had to be hand-stained, so they wouldn't look like plastic flooring. Beams were hand-stripped. An amusing touch: Saladino asked the workmen to have a few beers before they started to sand the dining room walls --- he didn't want perfection. This was a giant construction product, with as many as 40 workers on site each day. The transformation took four years --- twice as long as Saladino had predicted --- and cost three times more than he'd budgeted. "I did make it to dry land," he writes, "but only by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin." Saladino's design truths can be applied to smaller houses --- and smaller budgets. Among them: "Every home should be a sanctuary: entering it you should immediately feel physically and emotionally protected." "The most important thing about color is that it cannot be isolated --- every color is only ever seen in juxtaposition with other ones." "Any fragments from the past, especially those that you can touch, connect you to the makers of those pieces, making you aware that we are threads in a great tapestry of time." "Make the largest piece of furniture in the room the same color as either the floor or the walls so its bulk doesn't intrude." This is not stuffy advice. But then the house, for all its beauty, is strikingly relaxed. And there are a few well-placed jokes. On a statue of Sir Francis Drake, arguably the first Englishman to see the California coast, he set a pair of dark sunglasses. And, to puncture any air of self-importance, he named the retreat Villa di Lemma. There is no dilemma, of course. In his California home, John Saladino solved every design and decorating problem. The only unhappiness he created is on your coffee table --- all your other books will be wildly jealous of "Villa". Fantabulous! July 21, 2009 R. Dwayne Harrison (Baltimore, MD United States) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful I am thrilled with this book! It has stunning photographer and interesting commentary by the author by Saladino himself. The CD that is in the back of the book is a film traveling up the long driveway to give you a feel for the setting and features gorgeous cinematography of the exterior and interior as well. A bit pretentiously presented but anyone who enjoys the restoration of an old home complete with furnishings and art with eat this up. I still peruse through this one though I bought it months ago. A great coffee table book!! Dwayne Nice, not great. June 25, 2009 legally bland 7 out of 8 found this review helpful Villa As other readers have noted, this is an attractive book depicting a beautiful property. My comments relate to the things I would like to have known before buying this rather expensive book. First, there is an excess of outdoor scenes. The garden and surrounding flora, while nice enough, did not seem so remarkable or spectacular as to justify the approximately 95 photos devoted to them. Second, I would like to have seen more full-room views of the villa's interior. Apparently the demise of the traditional large-format view camera in favor of digital technology has made the eye-popping interior vista a thing of the past. Most of the interior photos were chopped up views of the rooms and small vignettes. Nevertheless, there are some very nice photos. Third, the villa was apparently smaller than I had hoped as there are not that many rooms shown. In my opinion, the interiors were DC (Designer Correct) and understated to avoid criticism for any possible form of excess. Nothing to really complain about, but nothing to write home about either. Fourth, the artsy quality of the DVD was overdone (eyeball-distorting selective focus and lots of infra-red.) The sound balance was poor...when adjusted to listen to the narrator the volume of the background music was ear-splitting. Finally, the DVD content was disappointingly about 90 percent outdoor landscape/10 percent villa interior. The book probably rates 3.5 stars but that option is not offered. It is a nice book but, primarily because it featured trees and bushes more than the villa, it did not merit 4 or 5 stars in this reader's opinion. villa desire June 7, 2009 Jose F. Santiago-llorens (puerto rico) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful As always Mr. Saladino delivers. His philosophy for beauty (and life) is well reflected in this book. Bravo. wonderful !!! May 16, 2009 Renato Almeida 6 out of 6 found this review helpful A beautiful book !!! Very much like Bunny Williams' An Affair with a House, Saladino transformed a California Ranch into a genuine Provence Bastide- a sort of a Manor House in the french countryside. He was careful enough in his restauration plan not to interfere with the house architectural features and the interior design to, with careful chosen pieces fitted in harmony with the house fixtures. He done the landscapes beautifully also !!! It worth the ride !!! Showing reviews 1-5 of 11 1 2 3 Next »

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