Luxury Coastal/Mediterranean Style Homes (Paperback)

by The Sater Design Collection Inc. (Author)

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Product Description
In this book you will find 49 of the most remarkable luxury homes on the market today. Styles vary from Old World Mediterranean, Modern Spanish to Contemporary Coastal. Sizes are from 2,500 to 6,800 square feet of living area. Each home is a study is superb architectural detailing both inside and out. Floor Plans feature the finest comforts and amenities you can imagine. If your looking for the "sweet life", you'll find it within the Sater-designed homes in this book! 60 pages of full color interior photography, 112 pages of exciting home plans.

About the Author
DAN F. SATER II, AIBD, President of The Sater Design Collection, Inc. has served Southwest Florida for nearly 20 years, designing over 7,500 distinctive homes throughout Florida and the United States. The Sater Design Collection, Inc. is Southwest Florida’s most recognized design firm and has received over 250 local and national design awards.

Dan has served as a national officer and has spoken in behalf of the American Institute of Building Design on a national level in addition to serving on a State level. Dan has been retained by some of America’s most prominent corporate CEOs, entertainers, and has designed homes for clients all over the world. His plans are also featured in many national publications.

Dan’s designs specialize in view-oriented homes that achieve a sense of openness, with a focus on the relationship of the home to the site and natural surroundings, to create a feeling of warmth, livability, and casual sophistication. Paying close attention to detail, proportion and scale, we create an unmatched sense of place, with each room having it’s own special character and view vantage point.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Sater Design Collection (February 5, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966211626
• ISBN-13: 978-0966211627
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,025,983 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sater is very good, November 14, 2004

By	J. Poss "Jeff3948" (Pahrump, Nevada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sater II has some of the most elegant designs I have ever seen. I love the way he combines the out doors with the indoors with extensive use of the veranda and varied use of all different types of ceilings. His Fiorentino and Prestonwood plans are masterpieces of elegant and stately designs. The only fault I see is that I wish his foyers were larger and more isolated from the living room like Frank Lloyd Wright's and his designs are somewhat cookie cutter.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely not "cookie cutter", May 10, 2004

By A Customer

The reviewer who has called this book "cookie cutter" suffers from delusion. The homes in this book are some of the most unique designs I have found anywhere, and the photography does a great job of showing this.

As far as I can tell, the designer of the homes in this book has probably allowed the Homeplanners magazines to reproduce his designs with the hope of exposing more potential customers to his work.

I suppose the writer of this review would accuse her local newspaper of plagiarism if a column by one of their writers appeared in USA Today or the New York Times.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These designs have "soul", October 27, 2007

By	Henry Tuttle "Globetrotter" (Dubai, UAE) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Anyone here who says these designs are "cookie cutter" aren't really looking at the interior layouts. The exteriors ARE similar to one another. But, honestly, they are Mediterranean style. How different are they supposed to look.

It's the interiors that are distinguished. The individual touches in the houses gives them their spark. Admittedly, you'll see many of these elements in other houses, but it's how they're put together that makes a house great.

Use your imagination and walk through the house. They're homey and yet elegant. A difficult combination to pull off.