Autorentext

Holly Lepere is a Santa Barbara–based photographer specializing in photography of architecture, landscape, and interior design. A Texas native, Lepere worked in New York City, Dallas, and Los Angeles before settling on the west coast in Santa Barbara, California. With a background in product photography, the love of built design drew her to the world of architecture and landscape, and there was no looking back. Lepere’s storytelling approach to photography provides intimate, detail-rich images that convey the beauty and quality of each project.

Holly’s work has been featured in top publications worldwide including Garden Design, Architectural Digest, Traditional Home, Better Homes and Gardens, Veranda, Luxe, Sunset, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She is also the photographer of The Private Gardens of Santa Barbara by Margie Grace, published by Gibbs Smith in 2020. Holly is a contributing photographer in Wade Weissman’s Homes of Quiet Elegance: A Collection of Recent Works by Wade Weissmann Architecture, published by Gibbs Smith in Fall 2024.

Klappentext

*Private Homes of Santa Barbara* is an invitation into twelve distinctive homes in Santa Barbara’s exclusive neighborhoods.**

Explore the gorgeous architecture and luxurious interiors of large estates, historical renovations, intimate sanctuaries, and mountain retreats that run the gamut from sublime and grand to bold and modern. What truly makes these individual environments extraordinary is what they have in common—a response to the unique character and architecture of each site and the larger environmental context of the American Riviera.

Private Homes of Santa Barbara is a perfect companion volume to Private Gardens of Santa Barbara (Gibbs Smith, 2020) with a similar trim size, cover treatment, and layout. Each project includes commentary by the specific contributor with whom Holly Lepere collaborated—including builders, architects, interior designers, and landscape designers. By having the contributors write their specific project descriptions, the book as a whole will include a range of perspectives, giving a voice to the various challenges and collaborations of successful home creation.