Barbara Stoeltie
Författare till Living in Morocco
Om författaren
Verk av Barbara Stoeltie
Dutch View, Jan des Bouvrie 3 exemplar
Style By Saladino — Fotograf — 1 exemplar
Lijfsbehoud 1 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Stoeltie, Barbara
- Födelsedag
- 1944
- Kön
- female
- Bostadsorter
- Brussels, Belgium
- Yrken
- artist
gallery owner - Relationer
- Stoeltie, Rene (husband)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 31
- Medlemmar
- 607
- Popularitet
- #41,417
- Betyg
- 4.0
- Recensioner
- 2
- ISBN
- 84
- Språk
- 7
In fact, the one stand-out review in the whole book is a couple of pages on a traditional Mayan house. And this is clearly a very poor cousin to all the other houses represented. This was very different ..so different that one might be forgiven for wondering why it was included and was it just because the authors were driving past and were able to take a few photos?
Many of the homes appear to be renovated by artists...a lot of them ex-pat artists. Nothing wrong with this but then their taste often runs to what they regard as uniquely interesting in Mexico.
My own experience in Mexico ...even including the houses in the area where I lived was that there is a lot more interesting decor than we see in this book. Ok they can't cover everything but the over indulgence with infinity pools and bright pinks, yellows, reds and orange colours seems slightly overdone. Also, one of the things that i don't much like about some of the Mexican architecture is the use of uncut and undressed wooden supports. This book features a lot of them...a special feature being those which have been parasitised by strangler vines. Yes they are used in some Mexican architecture but they are certainly not universal...and personally, I don't much like them.
The photography is great. The descriptions are brief but enough to get the gist of the scene (and it's in multiple languages ...so i guess that this restricts things a bit). It's not a bad coverage of Mexican homes...just a bit restricted and I was expecting more.… (mer)