Perfect Porches: Designing Welcoming Spaces for Outdoor Living
Whether you Have a Porch of your own or simply love beautiful, inventive architecture, this book will awe you with forty of the country's most stunning and original porches. From San Francisco to Savannah, Vero Beach to Martha's Vineyard, from resurrected, becolumned old beauties to modern marvels, each porch is both a revelation of design and a magical retreat emphasizing its owners' unique design sensibilities.
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A well-designed porch is like a welcoming committee that invites friends and family to share stories, catch up on neighborhood news, or quietly enjoy the breezes of a sultry summer evening. Porches bridge our public and private worlds, and convey the essence of one’s home.In more than 250 stunning photographs of forty homes, Perfect Porches illustrates how varied these iconic American spaces can be. A wealth of structural appointments are presented, such as the extended eaves of a rain porch along the Gulf Coast, the shimmering copper flooring of a converted Amish cattle barn in Bluegrass country, and Outback-inspired painted thresholds in California’s wine region. Unexpected ornaments, including Moroccan pendant lamps, a vintage watering can collection, or a majolica menagerie can transform even the most modest porch into an oasis. This book also reveals a host of practical ways to bring privacy to urban porches, chic accents to old-fashioned verandas, and coziness to modern environments. Home owners share colorful stories about using their porches as communal stages for magical and sometimes mythological events, telling of ghosts encountered, arias sung, and families reunited. Whether you seek to reawaken a cherished memory of a childhood porch, create an adorned haven of your own, or take an enlightening journey across the nation, this volume is certain to become a treasured companion as well as a source of fresh inspiration. PAULA S. WALLACE is president and cofounder of the Savannah College of Art and Design. Under her leadership, SCAD has received awards for architecture, design, and sustainability from the American Institute of Architects, the Art Deco Societies of America, Fashion Group International, and the National Trust for Hispanic Preservation, and she is the recipient of Elle Décor’s Vision Award for her work fostering emerging design talent. Wallace is the coauthor of A House in the South. CHIA CHONG’s fine art, portraiture, and lifestyle work has been shown internationally and has appeared in numerous publications, including Cosmopolitan, Elle Décor, and Vogue. Since earning her BFA degree in photography from SCAD, she has traveled worldwide on photography assignments. A native of Penang, Malaysia, she now lives in Savannah, Georgia. ADAM KUEHL’s atmospheric landscape work has been exhibited widely and is featured in both private and corporate collections. His fashion and interiors work has appeared in numerous publications, including Metropolitan Home, the New York Times Style Magazine, and Vogue. He is a graduate of SCAD’s BFA program in photography and has been recognized in 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers, Volume II. Library Journal More than just a simple entry into the home, the porches depicted here represent another room of the house. Wallace (president, Savannah Coll. of Art and Design) visits close to 40 homes located throughout the United States, showing how the homeowners have made the porch an extension of their home and a reflection of their lifestyle.
Introduction 6Coastal PorchesGrand Illumination - Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts 14A Gulf Coast Rain Porch - Point Clear, Alabama 22A Lowcountry Porch - Hilton Head Island, South Carolina 30A Mediterranean Revival Loggia - Palm Beach, Florida 36A Poolside Pavilion - Vero Beach, Florida 40Wyldwinde - Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts 46Farm PorchesBrown Woods Farm - Stamping Ground, Kentucky 52A Gardener's Porch - St. Helena, California 58Nursery Place - Clark County, Kentucky 64Kortum Canyon Porches - Calistoga, California 68A Vineyard Porch - St. Helena, California 72Orchard Porches - Philo, California 78Woodland Farm - Goshen, Kentucky 86Urban PorchesThe Professional Porch Sitters Union - Louisville, Kentucky 94A Parkside Retreat - Savannah, Georgia 98Rockhouse - Coconut Grove, Florida 102Harmony Hill - San Francisco, California 108Porches for Earth and Sky - Savannah, Georgia 116An Ashland Park Porch and Solarium - Lexington, Kentucky 120Midnight on a Monterey Square Porch - Savannah, Georgia 124Waterfront PorchesVilla Allegra - Miami Beach, Florida 132A Hill Country Hacienda - West Kerr County, Texas 138The Porches at Snake Ravine - Poplarville, Mississippi 144A Camp Porch - West Fairlee, Vermont 148A D-I-Y Porch - Miami Lakes, Florida 152An Antebellum River Porch - Vernonburg, Georgia 156Riverfarm Nursery - Goshen, Kentucky 162Passumpsic Point - West Fairlee, Vermont 168Country PorchesThe Neshoba County Fair - Philadelphia, Mississippi 176A Frontier-Era Porch - Waco, Kentucky 182A Painter's Porch - Savannah, Georgia 188A Woodshed Porch - Bridgewater, Vermont 192An Australian Veranda in Sonoma County - Glen Ellen, California 198Creating Porch RoomsBringing a Porch to Light 206Furnishing Your Nest 210Adding Color and Comfort with Textiles 216Design Directory 220Index 222
\ Library JournalMore than just a simple entry into the home, the porches depicted here represent another room of the house. Wallace (president, Savannah Coll. of Art and Design) visits close to 40 homes located throughout the United States, showing how the homeowners have made the porch an extension of their home and a reflection of their lifestyle.\ \
