Some articles on house style, houses, style:
... The conch house style was developed in Key West by Bahamian immigrants, known as "Conchs" ... Many Bahamians had experience building boats, and the earliest conch houses were built like boats, using timber framing ... Houses in the conch style were also build in Miami, in particular, in the Coconut Grove and Overtown neighborhoods ...
Famous quotes containing the words style and/or house:
“To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes—countrysides and figures, movements and gestures—how could he have a style, that is originality?”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“Semantically, taste is rich and confusing, its etymology as odd and interesting as that of “style.” But while style—deriving from the stylus or pointed rod which Roman scribes used to make marks on wax tablets—suggests activity, taste is more passive.... Etymologically, the word we use derives from the Old French, meaning touch or feel, a sense that is preserved in the current Italian word for a keyboard, tastiera.”
—Stephen Bayley, British historian, art critic. “Taste: The Story of an Idea,” Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things, Random House (1991)