About this book
Overview
"A celebration of the recent work of McAlpine, the award-winning architectural and interior-design firm, with a collection of residences that explore the intersection of modernism, classicism, and romanticism. Tapping diverse influences, the work of renowned Southern interior-design firm McAlpine draws from architectural languages ranging from Elizabethan and Old Dutch to colonial Caribbean and agrarian American. Ten recent projects are explored with stunning photography and insightful prose. The book opens with Bobby McAlpine's own newly designed house, featuring exquisite spaces that are modern in expression but classical in order and balance. Other projects-all inspirational, all sublimely beautiful-include a white-on-white neoclassical pavilion-by-the-sea on Great Guana Cay in the Bahamas; a masonry dwelling in the rolling hills of Virginia; a quintessential American country house in Tennessee that combines the familiarity of a farm house with crisp minimalism; and an exuberant house sited on the edge of a pastoral golf course in Mountain Brook, Alabama McAlpine's work has always communicated the power of romanticism, speaking directly to the heart through the beauty and poetry of the home. The houses featured in this book combine the iconoclasm of romanticism with the clarity of modernism and order of classicism. Freely choosing from architecture's treasury, they are familiar, bold, and surprising, all at the same time-reflecting the complexity of the human experience. This book is an essential addition to the libraries of designers and architects, as well as connoisseurs of fine living and thoughtfully refined interiors"--
