书中收录了从美国缅因州到蒙托克的木瓦风格浪漫海边别墅。
本书通过将房屋奢华装修成这种备受宠爱的建筑风格，使读者感觉愉悦并受到启发。而这种风格已经成为一种表达，表达对海边生活的浪漫期盼。书中涵盖了专为本书拍摄的全新照片，这些照片着眼于历史上的和全新的木瓦风格房屋。
木瓦风格是极少数纯美国建筑流派中的一种，曾经和艺术与手工艺运动密切联系。杰出建筑师，像是H. H. Richardson、William Ralph Emerson和Frank Lloyd Wright就曾受过这种风格的影响，并促成了它流行的大环境。不少建筑师和建筑运动还在受这种风格的持续影响，其中就包括后现代主义。本书以历史开篇，以大量记录文献佐证，随后从原始和现代体现两个方面引用典范房屋的部分例证。书中还列举了部分更为知名的房屋，例如麦金、 米德与怀特建筑事务所在罗得岛州纽波特市Ochre Point的别墅作品、在东汉普顿的Quackenbush之家，以及“灰色花园”——破败不堪的知名建筑，里面住着伊迪母女——杰奎琳•肯尼迪•奥纳西斯的远亲。书中还有这种风格的当代表现，例如Robert A.M. Stern设计的CHILMARK住宅，位于玛莎酒园；Shope Reno Wharton建筑公司的Black Watch，位于罗得岛詹姆斯镇。

Romantic seaside houses in the beloved Shingle Style, from Maine to Montauk.

This book will delight and inspire readers with its luxurious treatment of homes in this beloved architectural style, which has become an expression of the romantic longing for a life by the sea. Featuring all-new photography taken especially for the book, it looks at both the historic and new Shingle Style houses.

The Shingle Style is one of the few purely American genres of architecture and was closely linked to the Aesthetic and the Arts and Crafts movements. Prominent architects, including H. H. Richardson, William Ralph Emerson, and Frank Lloyd Wright, were influenced by the style and contributed to its milieu. Architects and architectural movements, including postmodernism, have continued to be influenced by this style. This volume begins with a well-documented history and then considers some of the more exemplary houses of the style in its original and modern manifestations. Some of the more notable homes featured are McKim, Mead & White’s Ochre Point in Newport, Rhode Island, the Quackenbush House in East Hampton, and Grey Gardens, the famously ramshackle residence of Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter “Little Edie”—the eccentric aunt and first cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis—, as well as contemporary manifestations of the style, such as the Robert A.M. Stern–designed Chilmark Residence, in Martha’s Vineyard, and Shope Reno Wharton’s Black Watch, in Jamestown, Rhode Island.