Product Description

Contemporary Pacific style is a vibrant blend that mixes cultures from the many islands of the South Pacific with colonial influences. This colorful new book explores both the traditional architecture and crafts of the region and contemporary design concepts. Covering Samoa, Niue, Tahiti, New Caledonia, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands, Pacific Island Style looks at design and color inside private houses and out on the streets, the use of local materials and techniques, traditional houses, painting and stenciling techniques, colonial and modern houses, and other features such as the famous color-coded buses of Western Samoa. The traditional trademarks of Pacific Island style--attractive and natural materials, environment-enhancing design, indoor-outdoor living--are being found more and more all over the world. Not only a tribute to the arts and crafts of the Pacific Islands, this is also an inspiring book for anyone who wants to add some vivid Pacific style to their surroundings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1529450 in Books
• Published on: 2000-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
Glenn Jowitt has taken Pacific Island photographs for many books, magazines, and gallery exhibitions. Peter Shaw is Curator of the Fletcher Challenge Art Collection in Auckland, New Zealand.

Customer Reviews

Superlative addition to design library reference collections
In Pacific Island Style, Glenn Jowitt and Peter Shaw collaborate to showcase contemporary Pacific styes lending cultures from the many islands of the South Pacific with their various colonial influences. Jowitt and Shaw explore both the traditional architecture and crafts of the region as well as contemporary design concepts. the use of attractive and natural materials, environment-enhancing designs, indoor-outdoor living arrangements are all trademarks of the Pacific Island style and to be found world wide. Pacific Island Style covers Samoa, Niue, Tahiti, New Caledonia, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands. Pacific Island Style admirably serves as a source of architectural and interior design references and ideas for anyone seeking to incorporate the islands' peaceful, natural style amidst modern surroundings. Pacific Island Style is a highly recommended addition to any personal or professional design library collection.

Traditional, Modest Architecture
I'm in agreement with the reviewer who wrote that this book is mostly about traditional not modern architecture and design. When I got this book, I was hoping that contempory would mean modern and upscale. This book does not deliver any of that and the book cover photo is not the type of designs that are found in the rest of the book so I was terribly disappointed. Eventually, I grew to tolerate the traditional design photos ( which are mostly of churches, huts, cane worker houses and store shacks), but if you're looking for upscale design ideas, select another book and relegate this one to a fond look at old, dilapidated island style.