Rustic: Country Houses, Rural Dwellings, Wooded Retreats is a profound meditation, through luminous photography and richly detailed text, on a beloved style of architecture that speaks to contemporary society's powerful urge back to Nature and the beauties inherent therein.

Rustic: Country Houses, Rural Dwellings, Wooded Retreats is a meditation on a style of architecture that speaks to contemporary society's powerful urge to get back to nature. Who has not dreamed of an idyllic house in the country? Rustic architecture is an artfully informal aesthetic that celebrates the beauty of the natural world. Set upon craggy peaks overlooking the sea, on placid lakes deep in old forests, and in the spectacular scenery of the American West, rustic retreats delight the eye and soothe the soul.

In Rustic, author and photographer Bret Morgan illuminates this much-loved style, giving us the definitive volume on the subject. Comprehensive in scope, Rustic visits twenty retreats that span the breadth of North America and over a century of architectural and social history. They include consummate examples of traditional rustic architecture--including the Ames Gate Lodge, H. H. Richardson's sublime pile of boulders in Massachusetts; C amp Topridge, Marj orie Merriweather Post's compound of drop-dead rustic luxury in the Adirondacks; and the Charles Millard Pratt House in southern California, an exquisite Arts and Crafts winter home designed by Greene & Greene--as well as a varied and inspiring selection of contemporary homes that includes Fortune Rock, George Howe's striking modernist home on the coast of Maine; Robert A. M. Stem's nostalgic Spruce Lodge, hidden high in the Colorado Rockies;and Ledge House, Peter Bohlin's singular masterpiece of rustic modernism in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland.

INTRODUCTION IX

AMES GATE LODGE 2

NORTH EASTON, MASSACHUSETTS; Henry Hobson Richardson; 1880-1881

GENERAL CHARLES G. LORING HOUSE 10

PRIDES CROSSING, MASSACHUSETTS; William Ralph Emerson; 1881-1888

CAMP PINE KNOT 22

RAQUETTE LAKE, NEW YORK; William West Durant; 1877-1895

KILDARE CLUB 28

KILDARE, NEW YORK; William Scopes & Maurice Feustmann; 1906

CAMP TOPRIDGE 42

BRIGHTON, NEW YORK; Theodore Blake & Benjamin Muneil; 1924

WAWAPEK FARM 60

COLD SPRING HARBOR, NEW YORK; GrosvenorAtterbury; 1898-1900

OLD FAITHFUL INN 70

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, WYOMING; Robert C. Reamer; 1903-1904

CHARLES MILLARD PRATT HOUSE 82

OJAI, CALIFORNIA; Greene & Greene; 19o9-1911

THE POINT (formerly Camp Wonundra) 92

SARANAC LAKE, NEW YORK; William G. Distin; 1931-1933

FALLINGWATER 104

MILL RUN, PENNSYLVANIA; Frank Lloyd Wright; 1985-1939

FORTUNE ROCK 110

MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, MAINE; George Howe; 1987-1989

WHARTON ESHERICK'S STUDIO 120

PAOLI, PENNSYLVANIA; 1926-1966

MANITOGA 128

GARRISON, NEW YORK; Russel Wright & David Leavitt; 1942-1976

ROLAND TERRY'S HOUSE 138

LOPEZ ISLAND, WASHINGTON; 1959-1963

SPRUCE LODGE 148

SNOWMASS, COLORADO; RobertA. M. Stern Architects; 1987-1991

RUSTIC REDUX 164

NEW YORK STATE; Shape Reno Wharton; 2000-2002

AMODERN LOG CABIN 172

JACKSON, WYOMING; Cesar Pelli & Assoeiates; 199o-2993

LEDGE HOUSE 186

CATOCTIN MOUNTAINS, MARYLAND; Bohlin CywinskiJackson; 1992-1996

LONG RESIDENCE 204

ORCAS ISLAND, WASHINGTON; CutlerAnderson; 2003

RIDGE HOUSE 214

SPOKANE, WASHINGTON ; Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen; 2001

BIBLIOGRAPHY · NOTES · INDEX · ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 222