Seaside Interiors (Interiors Series) [Hardcover]

TASCHEN (Editor), Diane Dorrans Saeks (Editor), Angelika Taschen (Author), Diane Dorrans Saeks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 11, 2000 | Series: Interiors (Taschen)

Ibiza, South Africa, Miami, Tahiti and Sri Lanka - "Seaside Interiors" steps incide dream houses on the world's coasts. More than 4o beach houses, wooden cottages, villas with breathtaking sea views and converted fisherman's huts invite readers to indulge in the dream of living beside the sea. This is coastal living at its best!

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About the Author

The author: Diane Dorrans Saeks specializes in architecture, interior design, travel, gardening, and fashion. She has published ten books on these subjects, as well as many features for leading magazines and newspapers such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Metropolitan Home, Garden Design, and W. The editor: Angelika Taschen studied art history and German literature in Heidelberg, gaining her doctorate in 1986. Working for TASCHEN since 1987, she has published numerous titles on the themes of architecture, photography, design, and contemporary art. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Taschen (May 11, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3822864145
• ISBN-13: 978-3822864142
• Product Dimensions: 12.8 x 9.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,782,290 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Diane Dorrans Saeks is the bestselling author of over fifteen books, including Hollywood Style and Michael S. Smith: Elements of Style. She was a founding editor of Metropolitan Home and Garden Design magazines. Saeks is currently interior design editor for PaperCity and a correspondent for W and WWD. She has a long-standing working relationship with Orlando Diaz-Azcuy throughout his career and has become a dear friend.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seaside beauty...., June 23, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Seaside Interiors (Interiors Series) (Hardcover)

This is a magnificent book to add to your coffee table, photography collections, decorating books, or just for the sheer pleasure of the absolutely beautiful photos. The book is a journey in itself; of lovely homes...perhaps of more unique architechture than the average home, but offering wonderful ideas on colors and at the same time showing many pictures of day-to-day living...in the most beautiful of seaside locations that one could imagine. Simply wonderful!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring!, September 4, 2002

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Renee Thorpe (Karangasem, Bali) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seaside Interiors (Interiors Series) (Hardcover)

Elegantly arranged and edited architecture/design book with focus on seaside homes. Very good coverage of each featured home; excellent organization on the page, with text in English, French, German.

What sets this book apart is its tremendous variety of taste, environment, ideas, style. Locations really run the gamut; the book is divided into continents, so Africa (for example) gets just as much attention as does Asia. The scope is fabulous: non-chic locations like a rustic cottage on the Baltic Sea, a windswept beach house on the English Channel. The north African featured homes are especially interesting. So there is a beautiful array of styles and ideas on how to highlight a special environment.

Not a source book (no index or listings of architects and products), but an excellent style book. The photos are first-rate, with beautiful balance of detail shots and whole rooms. Quite a lot of landscaping can be seen, even if it's about "interiors", so that's a bonus.

Need not be decorating a seaside home to be able to love and even use this book.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars truly beautiful, June 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Seaside Interiors (Interiors Series) (Hardcover)

This book is not only beautiful but inpsiring. The photography and design is wonderful. It allows the mind to wander to far off places while creating new ideas for your own environment.