Synopses & Reviews
At last, a beautiful, affordable style book that offers a rare insider's look at the highly personal and innovative aesthetic for which the Southwest is famed. Santa Fe residents Lisl and Landt Dennis have documented eighteen of the most unusual and awe-inspiring homes and gardens of the Santa Fe and Taos area. Meet the owners and designers, tour their homes, and witness the grand vision and loving detail they have devoted to their living spaces. With two hundred gorgeous full-color photographs, Behind Adobe Walls is an essential keepsake for the Southwestern native or visitor, and a visual inspiration for anyone who would like to create their own Santa Fe, wherever they may call home.
Review
-- Rocky Mountain News, June 1997
Neither desert nor rain forest, the high country of Santa Fe and Taos can be tamed, especially behind adobe walls. Transplanted Easterners recognized this fact. After the 1920s, they began to surround their homes with adobe walls for privacy and for the added enjoyment of growing flower beds, which flourish in interior patios.
Protected from the elements and kept warm by the heat-retaining adobe, flowers do especially well in Santa Fe and Taos when the soil is properly prepared and adequately watered, often by drip irrigation. Grateful for warm days and cool nights, gardeners successfully grow irises, roses, blue mist spirea, yarrow, lavender, coreopsis, poppies, snapdragons, daisies, columbine, day lillies, flax, and peonies.
Review
Neither desert nor rain forest, the high country of Santa Fe and Taos can be tamed, especially behind adobe walls. Rocky Mountain News
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 141) and index.
About the Author
Landt Dennis and Lisl Dennis, working frequently as a team, have contributed to Town and Country, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Home, Travel Holiday, Caribbean Travel and Life, and Harper's Bazaar, and are the authors of five books together, including Chronicle Books' Santa Fe and Taos: Under a Coyote Moon. The Dennises live in Santa Fe.
Landt Dennis and Lisl Dennis, working frequently as a team, have contributed to Town and Country, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Home, Travel Holiday, Caribbean Travel and Life, and Harper's Bazaar, and are the authors of five books together, including