A Review of: A Place to Call Home: The New American House by Gil Schafer III & Bellamy Mansion
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Published 2022-09-08
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Join me for a review of: "A Place To Call Home" by Gil Schafer III and a walk around Bellamy Mansion, an antebellum home in Wilmington, NC.
"For award-winning architect Gil Schafer, the most successful houses are the ones that celebrate the small moments of life—houses with timeless charm that are imbued with memory and anchored in a distinct sense of place. Essentially, Schafer believes a house is truly successful when the people who live there consider it home. It’s this belief—and Schafer’s rare ability to translate his clients’ deeply personal visions of how they want to live into a physical home that reflects those dreams—that has established him as one of the most sought-after, highly-regarded architects of our time.
In his new book, A Place to Call Home Schafer follows up his bestselling The Great American House, by pulling the curtain back on his distinctive approach, sharing his process (complete with unexpected, accessible ideas readers can work into their own projects) and taking readers on a detailed tour of seven beautifully realized houses in a range of styles located around the country—each in a unique place, and each with a character all its own. 250 lush, full color photographs of these seven houses and other never-before-seen projects, including exterior, interior, and landscape details, invite readers into Schafer’s world of comfortable classicism.
Opening with memories of the childhood homes and experiences that have shaped Schafer’s own history, A Place to Call Home gives the reader the sense that for Schafer, architecture is not just a career but a way of life, a calling. He describes how the many varied houses of his youth were informed as much by their style as by their sense of place, and how these experiences of home informed his idea of classicism as a set of values that he applies to many different kinds of architecture in places as varied as the ones he grew up in. Because while Schafer is absolutely a classical architect, he is in fact a modern traditionalist, and A Place to Call Home showcases how he effortlessly interprets traditional principles for a multiplicity of architectural styles within contemporary ways of living."
September 7, 2022
All Comments (13)
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Imagine my surprise when today’s video opened with the Bellamy Mansion. Wilmington has been my home for 30 years ❤️
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Thank you, It may seem trite of me but I must say, I am so comforted by and satisfied with your consistent ending always giving the pages a turn and then closing the book and THEN letting your hand gently fall down the back cover so nice, like so many of us book lovers out here and shows you are a generous soul with this channel THANK YOU again! Sincerely.JL
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I loved the addition of the tour of the Bellamy Mansion. I love your channel.
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An outstanding tour of a beautiful residence of yesteryear and part of our American Antebellum Southern living. Thank you for sharing this with all of us Youtubers that like architectural history, interior design and horticulture. I hope to be able to afford this book some time in the future and to be able to enjoy more of these videos.
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My oldest son was a docent at the Bellamy Mansion and I have been there many times. I fell in love with the Greek Revival style and now live in an 1853 Greek Revival outside Farmville, Pitt County.
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Lovely review - I love his first book, adding this one to my list! He is a genius.
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Like when the weather is broadcast from your home town on tv 😂
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I'm waiting on delivery of the hilltop home book. I bought a used book. So thankful to you for introducing me to enjoyable books and decor.
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I enjoy your videos very much, thank you, I have this book in my collection. Have a great day!
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A beautiful home, lucky you! 😊❤️
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Beautiful
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wonder why my comment was crossed out
