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The Rustic Cabin: Design & Architecture

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This is a beautiful, expensive book with many photographs. It's title is very misleading as it implies a study of rustic cabins; it is actually of "great halls of lodges." Mr. Kylloe feels their basis is the Arts and Crafts movement's influence on their architects; however, the true rustic cabin began with early settlers' struggles to survive and build rude shelters from the ubiquitous forest crowding around them. The photographs are especially of items like "luxury top-of-the-line kitchen appliances" or "a highly ornate, 17th Century gold-gilded corner cupboard (which) rests in the dining room." I feel cheated by the title and description of "mountain men whose small log cabins -etc."

Look inside this book at a bookstore before you buy it. It is NOT about cabins but about huge lodges-log mansions, if you will.

I thought "The Rustic Cabin" was good but "Cabins and Camps" was by far a bigger feast for the eyes!! The selection of pictures were more of what I personally wanted to see.

There's nothing "rustic" about these luxury ranch homes, and the word "cabin" is definitely a euphemism. The houses are as big and gorgeous as the settings they reside in, and the author's photographs capture both. If you want the vicarious thrill of seeing how the rich spend their summers in Montana, then book is for you.

Wonderful photography, well written chapters, and many, many decorating ideas. My wife and I really enjoyed this book. We decorate our home in a rustic style, and hope to have our own cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains one day. However, a better title for this book might have been "Cabins of the Rich and Famous"; these aren't the little cabins your grandparent's owned, or those that most people could afford.

It is a great coffee table book if this is your area of interest, and will inspire you with building, design, and decorating ideas.

Not the book I was looking for but had some great ideas. I was actually looking for the book "Rustic Revisited".

A beautifully executed book. The "cabins" this book concerns itself with are, by and large, mountain-mansions of the ultra wealthy. The residence shown in this book are "cabins" in as much as the glided summer homes of Newport, Rhode Island are "cottages."

The value of the book, beyond a record of truly beautiful design and execution of ideas when given an unlimited budget, is, as with most architectural endeavors, to take away some inspiration reduce it's scale and apply it to more modest undertakings.

Great pictures pair with many ideas for turning your house into a rustic dream home.

This is an excellent book on the topic of the adirondacks and adirondack home. Ralph Kylloe always does a fantastic job with pictures and text. It was a very worhtwhile purchase.
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G. Cerank