Highlighting thirty-five spectacular recently completed houses
overlooking sea, lake, river, and ocean, selected for beauty and variety
across the globe, Houses by the Shore features homes that demonstrate
the extraordinarily diverse ways that today's leading architects and
interior designers build and design homes on the water and new
approaches homeowners are taking to life on the shore.
Frequently elegant and uncluttered, these houses serve as models of
smart and often exquisite design with lots of ideas for homeowners who
don't necessarily live in a waterfront home, but who wish to have
something of that appeal and sensitivity in their own space.
A range of projects encompassing myriad geographic and cultural
inspirations show some of the world's most inviting residences, built in
stone and glass, in wood and steel and concrete. The houses vary in size
and style, though all within the realm of the modern, from open plan
homes that include terraces and rooms that flow from indoors to out, to
spaces flooded with light and views. Each house is photographed
comprehensively with detailed interior and exterior pictures and plans,
and placed into context through the lens of widely respected editor
Oscar Riera Ojeda and descriptive texts written by design critic Byron
Hawes, to give readers a privileged look at the best of shore-side
residential architecture.
With its beautiful modernist homes set beside the golden sands of the
gulf coast of Mexico or upon the romantic islands of Greece, from
Finland to South Africa to New Zealand, Houses by the Shore is a paean
to rooms with a view.
