Atomic Ranch: Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Michelle Gringeri-Brown; Jim Brown (Photographer)
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Atomic Ranch
At the close of World War II, during a time when the United States was suffused with optimism about the future, America began a love affair with the ranch house that lasted for the next twenty-five years. From the decidedly modern gable-roofed Joseph Eichler tracts in the San Francisco Bay area and butterfly wing houses in Palm Springs and Sarasota, Florida, to the unassuming brick or stucco L-shaped ranches and split-levels we see every day, midcentury ranches can be found all over the country.
Today there is a growing new enthusiasm for ranch houses and the midcentury furnishings that go with them. Atomic Ranch illustrates in stunning color photography the virtues of the ranch house, often decried as cookie cutter, and shows why these homes worked so well for their first residents and still function beautifully today. With private front facades, open floor plans, secluded bedroom wings, and walls of glass that bring the outside in, midcentury ranches mix function, comfort, and style with ease. Instead of trying to turn your ranch house into a bungalow, Spanish adobe or two-story Tuscan villa, why not let it be what it was meant to be-a modest one-story house with a casual, comfortable lifestyle.
From updated homes with high-end Italian kitchens, terrazzo floors, and modern furniture to affordable homeowner renovations with eclectic thrift-store furnishings, Atomic Ranch presents plenty of inspiring examples of stylish living in America's favorite house.
Details
- Title Atomic Ranch: Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes
- Author Michelle Gringeri-Brown; Jim Brown (Photographer)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Gibbs Smith, Salt Lake City
- Date 2006-08-29
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781423600022 / 1423600029
- Weight 2.8 lbs (1.27 kg)
- Dimensions 9.9 x 10.1 x 1.1 in (25.15 x 25.65 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Library of Congress subjects Architecture - United States - History -, Ranch houses - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006004614
- Dewey Decimal Code 747.097
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Citations
- Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 252
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