California Romantica

Author: Diane Keaton; D. J. Waldie (Text by); Lisa Hardaway (By (photographer)); Paul Hester (By (photographer)); D. J. Waldie

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  • : $89.99 AUD
  • : 9780847864751
  • : Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
  • : Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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  • : 1.81981
  • : October 2019
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  • : Diane Keaton; D. J. Waldie (Text by); Lisa Hardaway (By (photographer)); Paul Hester (By (photographer)); D. J. Waldie
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  • : Hardback
  • : 1910
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  • : English
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Barcode 9780847864751
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Description

Curated, edited, and co-designed by film star Diane Keaton, California Romantica features houses in the Spanish Colonial Revival style with photography taken specifically for the book.


The book gives us the vision of a committed preservationist who fell in love with the Colonial-era and Spanish Colonial Revival architecture of Southern California as a girl. Keaton puts it succinctly in her introduction: "I knew I wanted to share the magic I'd felt within the aura created by the presence of Spanish architecture in Southern California ... I wanted to focus on details, a fountain, a staircase, a doorway ... I wanted the drama of light to reveal secrets that lay hidden beyond the facades ... I wanted us to give renewed vitality ... to the historic dream of living in a perfect California Spanish home."

A testament to this vision, California Romantica is at once an invitation to wonder and an ode to an extraordinary tradition.