At Home in Wine Country: Architecture and Design in the California Vineyard

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With well-told stories and stunning photography, authors Heather Hebert and Chase Ewald feature the architecture, style, and design of 17 homes plus 4 unique auxiliary structures in Californias picturesque wine country. At Home in the Wine Country showcases the work of many of Californias top architects and designers, with styles ranging from modern farmhouse to refined rustic to updated agrarian to unapologetically modern.

This virtual tour documents a native, terroir-derived style that has evolved dramatically since the days when the region looked to European chateaux for inspiration. These ranges of styles as well the varied approaches to managing environmental factors is broad and captivating and pays homage to wine-country living in an atmosphere of understated, family-focused hospitality.

The California wine country is a region without distinct edges. In recent decades, this region has come to be defined by its lifestyle just as much as its wines. It has developed its own ethos, one whose contemporary expression is creative, sustainably minded, art-filled, and bathed in light. It has a youthful attitude and a decided sense of fun.

Central to this distinct way of life is the indoor-outdoor experience; todays homes seamlessly integrate the regions sublime scenery and climate with its cuisine and lifestyle. The pages of this book pay homage to a world and a lifestyle that is ever innovating, adapting, and evolving in a way that is sure to capture every readers attention.

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"At Home in the Wine Country deserves a place on your coffee table."--Liz Logan "Marin Magazine" (7/14/2021 12:00:00 AM)
"If you've always dreamt of owning a home in Napa, Sonoma or nearby, At Home in the Wine Country deserves a place on your coffee table. Authors Heather Sandy Hebert and Chase Reynolds Ewald take readers inside 17 new, swoon-worthy wine country homes by elite architects and designers -- and the photography is breathtaking."--Liz Logan "Spaces Magazine" (6/22/2021 12:00:00 AM)

Author Bio

Heather Sandy Hebert is the author of The New Architecture of Wine (Gibbs Smith, fall 2019). Formerly the director of marketing for a San Francisco-based architecture firm with an international practice, Heather spent 25+ years guiding the firm's marketing, brand identity, and positioning on a global scale. She works directly with clients to develop their brand strategy and design stories for their hotel, resort, winery, multifamily residential, and urban mixed-use projects. Heather lives in Marin County, California.

Chase Reynolds Ewald has been writing about architecture, design, travel, cuisine and lifestyle for 30 years and helps creatives of all types tell their stories. A graduate of Yale and the Graduate School of Journalism at U.C. Berkeley, she is currently Senior Editor of Western Art & Architecture magazine and the design columnist for Big Sky Journal. Chase is the author of more than a dozen books including Gibbs Smith titles Bison; Portrait of an Icon, Modern Americana, American Rustic and Cabin Style. She lives in Tiburon, California.