Cabin Fever: Rustic Style comes Home (Hardcover)

~ (Author) "William Distin, a well-known architect in New York's Adirondack Mountains in the early 1900s, once designed a bark-covered vacation lodge for an affluent client, who..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The craze for "getting away from it all" in buildings of log, stone, and unpainted lumber has been a part of American life since the 1800s. From the Gilded Age retreats of the Catskills and Adirondacks to the rugged Wild West lodges of Yellowstone and Yosemite, Cabin Fever celebrates the architectural elements that make cabin style unique: gleaming hand-peeled and polished logs, cowhide sofas, and river-rock fireplaces. Some are large, old, and built as public lodgings, like Putnam Camp, the Adirondack summer retreat founded by philosopher William James, which still has the cheerful austerity it had when Freud and Jung mingled there with Harvard academicians. Others, like the grand hunting lodge nestled on the edge of a marsh, are more recent monuments to quirky private visions of the perfect rustic retreat. Rooms in both are accessorized with animal heads, native American blankets and art, snowshoes, antler chandeliers, and willow twig furniture. The book's appendix includes catalog sources for everything from small wooden summerhouses to buffalo-plaid blankets, and a list of hotels in the grand old style (like Yosemite's Ahwahnee and the Grand Canyon's El Tovar). Even if you can't have a piece of the wilderness to call your own (and the burl furniture to match), you can still enjoy the rustic yet substantial comforts of Cabin Fever.

From Library Journal

The log and stone camps and lodges in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, which gave city dwellers a place to escape, have become synonymous with rustic style. Carley examines the architecture and interiors of this turn-of-the-century style through history and photographs of buildings such as Sagamore lodge in the Adirondacks as well as contemporary dwellings that echo this rustic style throughout the United States. Kylloe, a dealer and collector of rustic furniture and decorative accessories, examines furnishings and provides a history of the style and its manufacturers and designers. Carley has photos of individual items of furniture, Kylloe focuses on showing the furniture in its rustic setting with captions showing history and provenance?conflicting approaches that complement each other.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (September 28, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684844222
• ISBN-13: 978-0684844220
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 9.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #169,547 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A poor choice of title., November 5, 2001

By	Janet Rivera Switzer (Colorado) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a fine book if your taste in rustic dwellings tends toward the grand lodge. Because I prefer the modest true cabin over the ostentatious second home, my choice is a recent book titled "The Cabin" which focuses on structures of 1200 square feet or less.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars inspirational for home building, September 16, 1999

By A Customer

CABIN FEVER HELPED US IN REMODELING A 1930'S CABIN IN THE HILL COUNTRY OF TEXAS. THERE ARE UNLIMITED IDEAS IN THISONE BOOK. WE WISH WE COULD USE THEM ALL!!! WE'VE EVEN ORDERED ONE FOR OUR BUILDER TO KEEP, HE'S USED OURS SO MUCH.THIS IS A MUST-HAVE BOOK, EVEN IF JUST FOR THE COFFEE TABLE.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding photographs, June 3, 2004

By A Customer

I have been searching for books for months now that would give me real life examples of cabin type homes to use in designing my country home. While there are a lot of books out there on small cabins, I was looking for a book that showed examples that I could incorporate into a larger home. This book is exactly what I was looking for! The photographs are beautiful and truly capture some of the key elements that make these homes special. The author has managed to find some of the best examples out there of truly beautiful, well designed log/natural material homes.

In addition to the photographs, the narative is also quite entertaining. It helps the reader understand some of the thinking that went into the creation of these great spaces.

If you are looking for a very enjoyable book with wonderful pictures of a vast collection of cabins (both small and large), then this is the book you have been looking for! I know it was for me; I already have dozens of ideas that I plan on incorporating into my, not so small, cabin. Enjoy!