Enchanted Visions: Fantastic Houses and Their Treasures

"This book has brought me so much inspiration in my work - written in the 1970s by Claude Arthaud, an archaeologist and historian, it features dozens of spectacular structures and spaces that almost don’t seem like they could be real!"

— Adam Charlap Hyman

Travels through Europe in search of architectural opulence and grandeur: to Germany, England, Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, and even across the pond to the United States. Includes chapters on King Ludwig II's Linderhof, Herrenchiemsee, and Neuschwanstein; The Royal Pavilion at Brighton, Versailles, The Villa Palagonia, The Palace of Fronteira, and Hearst's San Simeon, among others.

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Charlap Hyman & Herrero is a New York and Los Angeles-based design firm that takes a fully integrated approach to conceptualizing and executing spaces in their totality. They aim to create spaces that become worlds unto themselves, with gesamkunstwerk at the core of the firm’s objective.