Country Houses, Rural Dwellings & Wooded Retreats

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed)
Nov 6th 2009 at 10:02AM

Twenty rural retreats spanning the breadth of North America and over a century of architectural and social history are featured in author and photographer Bret Morgan's stylish new book Rustic. Examples include the Ames Gate Lodge, H. H. Richardson's "sublime pile of boulders" in Massachusetts; Camp Topridge, Marjorie Merriweather Post's rustic luxe compund in the Adirondacks; the Arts and Crafts masterpiece Charles Millard Pratt House in southern California; Fortune Rock, George Howe's striking modernist home on the coast of Maine; Robert A. M. Stern's nostalgic Spruce Lodge, hidden high in the Colorado Rockies; and Ledge House, Peter Bohlin's vision of rustic modernism in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland. All exemplify an "artfully informal aesthetic that celebrates the beauty of the natural world."

Tags: Adirondacks, architecture, cabin, country house, CountryHouse, lake, lodge, Marjorie Merriweather Post, MarjorieMerriweatherPost, Massachusetts, photography, rural, rustic