Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1185611 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

About the Author
DAN F. SATER II, AIBD, President of The Sater Design Collection, Inc. has served Southwest Florida for nearly 20 years, designing over 7,500 distinctive homes throughout Florida and the United States. The Sater Design Collection, Inc. is Southwest Florida’s most recognized design firm and has received over 250 local and national design awards.

Dan has served as a national officer and has spoken in behalf of the American Institute of Building Design on a national level in addition to serving on a State level. Dan has been retained by some of America’s most prominent corporate CEOs, entertainers, and has designed homes for clients all over the world. His plans are also featured in many national publications.

Dan’s designs specialize in view-oriented homes that achieve a sense of openness, with a focus on the relationship of the home to the site and natural surroundings, to create a feeling of warmth, livability, and casual sophistication. Paying close attention to detail, proportion and scale, we create an unmatched sense of place, with each room having it’s own special character and view vantage point.

Customer Reviews

Definitely not "cookie cutter"
The reviewer who has called this book "cookie cutter" suffers from delusion. The homes in this book are some of the most unique designs I have found anywhere, and the photography does a great job of showing this.

As far as I can tell, the designer of the homes in this book has probably allowed the Homeplanners magazines to reproduce his designs with the hope of exposing more potential customers to his work.

I suppose the writer of this review would accuse her local newspaper of plagiarism if a column by one of their writers appeared in USA Today or the New York Times.

Cookie cutter
I purchased this book thinking it would offer a variety of styles and details. What I found was a run of the mill Florida cookie cutter style (neither mediterranean, nor Spanish, nor Italian, nor classic), the kind you find at just about every cookie cutter development in the Southwest and Florida. Even more disappointing, however, was the fact that I found the exact same plans, illustrations, and photos found in several home plans magazines, particularly those by Home Planners, inc.

Overall, the book was short on substance and detail, and the plans were so convoluted, I felt I had opened a puzzle book instead of an architecture/design book.

Luxury Living Redefined!
This book has some of the most beautiful homes I've ever seen! The photography is stunning and the interiors are extremely well detailed. More importantly the floor plan designs themselves are well thought out and give a unique livability to it's occupants.This is a great source for truly one of a kind luxury home designs!