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A stunning collection of twelve visionary and contemporary California residential exteriors and interiors, from award-winning design firm KAA Design, founded by Grant Kirkpatrick . The aspirational Southern California home designs of Grant Kirkpatrick and his award-winning architectural firm, KAA Design, exemplify why so many look to the region as the pinnacle of sophisticated modern living.



California Contemporary features two dozen of Kirkpatrick's magnificent custom residential designs, with a visual and narrative tour of both their interiors and exteriors. Modern in style, these visionary homes are built of sensuous materials, and sited to make the most of nature, views, and sunlight. The collection, shown through gorgeous color photographs and illustrations, represents the ultimate California Dream, by the architect selected to design the personal residential retreats of celebrities like Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, Matt Damon, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, among others.



Woven throughout the beautiful and lush images are Kirkpatrick's personal reflections on these beautiful residential projects, and the design strategies behind their creation.

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Kirkpatrick has been designing contemporary homes in Southern California for more than 30 years. This lifestyles monograph outlines his philosophy for design while sharing 160 exquisite photographs featuring 24 custom homes constructed by him and his firm KAA Design. Kirkpatrick believes in a relationship between nature and living spaces; all his designs weave elements of the outdoors with the indoors. To him, the land dictates the house design; he's spent his life "looking at property, thinking about how the people who live there will use it and about how to connect them to their land." His design principles include seamless outdoor-indoor living, form, scale and proportion, whimsy and imperfection and gravity-defying proportions. Among the featured residences are a nautically inspired home on the edge of the Pacific, a soaring, cantilevered hillside home with a spectacular view of the city of Los Angeles, and a house set on a plateau conceived as a series of linked pavilions interspersed with gardens and outdoor entertainment space. VERDICT A beautiful coffee-table book for anyone who loves contemporary design and architectural masterpieces.-Sandra Knowles, South Carolina State Lib., Columbia © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Grant Kirkpatrick, a native son of Southern California, writes and speaks frequently on Southern California as a hotbed for design. His work has been extensively published in design magazines such as Architectural Digest , House Beautiful , New York Times , L.A. Times , Coastal Living , Sunset magazine, and the Robb Report . His outdoor furniture is available through Design Within Reach, as well as a line of prefab homes.