Rich, romantic, inspiring and authentic, Santa Fe Sense of Place is a private tour through some of the most beautiful homes in Santa Fe. An interior designer with decades of stunning work, Jane Smith has curated a fascinating collection of both home styles and Santa Fe personalities, offering a rare window into life in the City Different. Artistically capturing the timeless appeal of Santa Fe's eclectic style, this hardcover book is a treasure trove...

Santa Fe Modern reveals the high desert landscape as an ideal setting for bold, abstracted forms of modernist houses. Wide swaths of glass, deep-set portals, long porches, and courtyards allow vistas, color, and light to become integral parts of the very being of a house, emboldening a way to experience a personal connection to the desert landscape. The architects featured draw from the New Mexican architectural heritage -- they use ancient materials...

Profiles homes from the colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, surveying numerous interior, architectural, and garden design ideas, from stately rural haciendas and villas to renovated colonial townhouses.

"A luxurious presentation of the works by prominent Mexican interior designer Sofía Aspe, known for creating unique spaces that balance eclectic character with contemporary eras"--

Photographs and text explore the unique features of over thirty desert dwellings ranging in location from North Africa and Spain to Mexico and the American Southwest.

"The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the twenty-nine essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit's concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and community, all while writing with the lyricism of...