Customer Reviews

Casa Mexicana Style

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I am an interior designer and have always been fascinated by the use of color in Mexico. This book is eye candy for any designer. The pictures are amazing and the photography wonderful. I have picked up this book so many times I have bookmarked almost every page for ideas. Great inspiration!

I just received my book a couple of days ago, and have been reading some of it, and looking at all of the pictures. It is a beautiful book with many beautiful pictures in great color, however, I expected to see more of the interiors of the haciendas. I am in the middle of decorating my condo mexican style, and I am interested in seeing new decorating ideas. This book showed mostly the architecture of the haciendas.

Somewhat disappointed.

The photograhy was beautiful, the houses plush and inviting, but the book read as an informercial for the interior design services of "friends" of the authors. I think Carr and others have done just as good of a job or better,and their books are more reasonably priced.

The book was reminiscent of tourist phamplets, beautiul pictures tooting virtues limited to a selected service, in this instance a few "designers." Ideas were limited, and represented a selected "Mexicana Style." One house looked much like another as the architecture was similar or the designer was the same. Not represetitive of Mexican design. It was a pity, I expected more.

Not exactly what I was hoping for. I wanted inspirations that I could use in my house. Nice pictures and houses but not exactly my style. No kitchen design/decorating ideas.

Color is the first thing you see in the book.Bright exteriors and cool, calm interiors. Only after that you notice all the other excellent features:
- superb photos
- clever organization
- interesting, informative text.
You get a variety of different types of houses around Mexico City, on beach resorts and even in the jungle. These are city apartments,townhouses, beach houses, haciendas. But I loved most the houses in the small town of San Miguel de Allende.
The majority of these houses were restored or redecorated by designers and decorators, frequently for themselves. So there are a lot of interesting things to learn from the book.
Pay special attention to the house of Luiz Barragan and the Cuixmala house.
And for those who like outdoor living the book will be an indispensable source of inspiration.

This book is just the best purchase ever, great quality, great photos and lots of ideas for those who like mexican style houses, worth the price.

So whilst I loved this book, I was a little peeved to see that some of the photos were reprints from other books that this photographer has done. I was hoping for completely new ideas.

However, saying that it truly is a wonderful book, full of inspirations and delights to get those creative juices pouring.

Loved this book. Great inspiration and colourful delights for the eyes and the soul. Makes your heart fly with the possibilities in design, travel, art and texture - just great.

This is a beautiful book, wonderful photography and architecturally very interesting. It is also very heavy, large, and it only shows buildings. I have no room or need for it on my interior design shelves.