Vacation Homes and Perfect Weekend Hideaways

by Karen Howes

This stunningly illustrated book features 40 vacation homes from around the world, reflecting a wide range of cultures, styles and ways of life, and perfectly capturing the essence of vacation living. From Sweden to South Africa, New York to Mexico and Provence to Lamu, Vacation Homes and Perfect Weekend Hideaways reveals the extraordinary variety of places to which people go to get away from it all. While some of the properties are highly sophisticated, others are 'shabby chic' or echo the local vernacular, their individuality a testament to each owner's unique sense of style. From a luxury spa in the wilds of the Colorado mountains to a stone cottage on the Yorkshire moors, and from an iron-roofed cabin in the African bush to a farmhouse in Provence, and including the homes of such celebrated designers as Jasper Conran, Liza Bruce, Carolyn Quartermaine and Ou Baholyodhin, this beautifully illustrated book features every type of vacation home imaginable. There is also a useful directory providing contact details of the featured designers and information on all the houses that are available to rent.
Elegantly written by interiors expert Karen Howes, and illustrated throughout by today's top interiors photographers, Vacation Homes and Perfect Weekend Hideaways will appeal as much to the armchair traveller as to those wishing to do up their own home-away-from-home in the sun.

Genres: Nonfiction

239 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2007

Reviews

[Lucia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some of my favorite eye-candy. I check this out of the library regularly.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Decorating books with their big showy photos of other worlds and other lives are the picturebooks for adults...a dash of the voyeur, a smidge of envy, a lot of daydreaming, and in great ones like this - endless eye candy. What makes this one special was the international aspect - from Wales to Long Island, NY to Africa to Sweden and more, a great page turner with a cup of tea and a if-I-won-the-lottery imagination.

[Bethany Stephens]

First, I have no intention of acquiring a vacation home. My Mom had this book at her house and I picked it up... and was riveted. It's this amazing study in special places around the world. Not celebrity getaways with giant pools, but quite a few small, lovely places where people are clearly creative. So fun to flip through.

[Megan · Rating 2 out of 5]

The photography is lovely, but the interiors are too sparse and humble for my liking

[Julie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gorgeous.