Product Description

This beautifully illustrated volume celebrates the extremely popular adobe home from the mountains of Mexico through the deserts of the American Southwest. Stunning photographs reveal the blend of handcrafted details, natural materials and cross-cultural finishes found in both traditional and modern homes, haciendas and getaways.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1424964 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
Karen Witynski and Joe P. Carr (Austin, Texas and the Yucatan) are the owners of Texture Antiques, a gallery of Mexican furniture, architectural elements and art. They are working with Oprah on a Mexican-style home remodel episode.

Customer Reviews

Casa Adobe
Casa Adobe is a terrific source book for those contemplating living in an adobe or any other earthen style home. Photographs with informaive descriptions tease the casual reader, while those already familiar with Mexico, Arizona, and the Southwest immediately jump head first into the well-written, beautifully illustrated text. Joe P. Carr and Karen Witynski take you to Sante Fe and the surrounding areas with early photographs of adobe structures. Then you are taken to country and contempory homes and structures that best reflect what Casa Adobe is all about. The last chapter of the book is especially helpful foranyone interested in adobe, stucco, or rammed earth homes. It gives sources and individuals to contact as well as galleries and suppliers. My next purchas will be Casa Yucatan, written and photographed by the same collaborative authors.

Review--Natural Home Magazine
Casa Adobe depicts homes, haciendas and holiday getaways that have blended handcrafted details, natural materials, and cross-cultural furnishings to express the elegant simplicity of adobe homes, from their humble beginnings to their current renaissance.
--Natural Home Magazine, December 2001

Book Review--New Mexico Magazine
Many people find the lines and textures of an adobe building at once seductive and compelling. This book is all about the unique aesthetic of houses made of mud. Third in a series of four books on popular residential design in Mexico and the Southwest, this book contains photos of spectacular adobe homes, inside and out, in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas and various places in Mexico.

The book documents the evolution of adobe from its historic past to its most modern applications, including interior details and architectural elements. The authors chose well the buildings they use as examples for their premise that "adobe is an old tradition with a new future," the recurring theme of the book.
--New Mexico Magazine, May 2002