Drawn to Water: Houses by the Sea

A lushly photographed ode to the enduring romance of seaside living, featuring extraordinary interiors by today’s best designers

There are as many ways to live by the ocean as there are shores to build upon. In Drawn to Water, acclaimed photographer Francesco Lagnese travels from the whitewashed houses of Mykonos and the sunbaked Mediterranean to Tangier, the Bahamas, and the rocky coast of Maine to photograph twenty-one stunning homes created by some of today’s most celebrated designers.

Lagnese approaches each house as he would a portrait, walking around it, changing his angle, watching what happens as the light moves across a room. Rather than imposing a visual signature, he allows each home to speak for itself.

The result is over 300 stunning photographs that reveal the extraordinary variety of lives built beside the water. Printed in vivid color and filling the book’s generously sized pages, the images invite readers inside inspiring interiors by Bunny Williams, Tom Scheerer, Veere Grenney, and other design luminaries.

Spanning continents, climates, scale, and style, Drawn to Water is a document of how we build homes by the sea, and testament to the elemental pull that brings us there in the first place.

• Format: Hardback
• Dimensions: 230mm x 254mm
• Pages: 352
• Brand: Monacelli
• ISBN: 9781580937825