Ultimate Horse Barns - Hardcover

Leffingwell, Randy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760324417 ISBN 13: 9780760324417

Verlag: Voyageur Press, 2006

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The love of horses often finds its expression in the horse barn-in the grandeur of the architecture, the extravagance of the detail, and the extent of the comforts that owners lavish on their favorite creatures. The masterpieces of equine architecture featured in this book attest to that devotion. With luxuries such as mahogany stalls, Spanish-tiled floors, and the latest in horse technology and training, these are not your average barns; rather, they attest to the extremes of elegant simplicity and outrageous glamour that convey a horse owners devotion, ambition, and style.

From prestigious and well-known horse barns such as Churchill Downs to private stables nestled in the Colorado mountains, Ultimate Horse Barns comprises a wide variety of barns certain to pique any horse owners fancy. Twenty North American barns in all, each one of a kind, they all have one thing in common-the love, appreciation, and awe of the horses they house.

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Throughout grade school, high school, and into college, before Randy Leffingwell veered into journalism and photography, he wanted to be an architect. His first year at the University of Kansas consisted of design, structure, and engineering courses. His admiration of architecture and architects continues to this day. He has been an enthusiastic, if irregular, rider for twenty years and has owned an American quarter horse. His wife Carolyn competed in hunter-jumper and equitation events for several years. They live in Santa Barbara, California.

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Owners show their love and devotion towards their horses in many different ways. Sir Henry Pellatt had the names of his favorite horses embossed in goldleaf at the head of their mahogany stalls and installed brick in a herringbone pattern on the floor to lessen the risk of a horse slipping and falling. Don Cohn has two 60-foot Aqua-Tred submerged treadmills that have water jets that force heated water to massage muscles for race horse rehabilitation. The common thread through the eighteen architectual horse barn masterpieces featured in this book is each barn is an innovative, beautiful structure that embodies the owners love and appreciation for horses.

Author Randy Leffingwell has selected barns that possess exceptional qualities?a clever response to site challenges; meticulous attention to details, equine health, and safety; or significant historical context. The purpose of the barns range from havens for private owners to successful breeding and training facilities to historical landmarks.

Ultimate Horse Barns capture the architectural beauty of these stunning structures, as well as the love and passion the owners have for their horses.

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The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire. ?Sharon Ralls Lemon

Ultimate Horse Barns features eighteen barns that have exceptional architecture, innovation, historical significance or beauty. The list includes structures such as:

?Culver Academies, a private school where high school students are taught leadership through equestrian education in the stately 88-year-old Castle, a massive red brick building with turrets and crenellated battlements to Meadow Farm.

?Lee and Beth Gabler s 14-acre paradise in Santa Barbara s Hope Ranch community that features a barn that was built to reflect Beth s passion for horses and Lee s love of architecture.

?George Vanderbilt s 12,000 square foot historic horse barn on the beautiful 8,000 acre Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Voyageur Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0760324417
• ISBN 13: 9780760324417
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
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