中文简介：

海滨小镇蒙特西托经常被邻近的圣巴巴拉小镇掩盖，而这通常也是蒙特西托居民喜欢的一点。虽然蒙特西托是众多名人的家园和避难所，但它有意培养低调形象，使其成为一个独特的社区，并由此产生了多层面的室内和花园设计文化。本书介绍了该地区20座具有折衷风格和丰富建筑遗产的房屋和景观，它们凝聚成一种典型的“加州风格”。

本书图文并茂，收录了室内摄影师Firooz Zahedi的250多张照片，以及知名设计作家洛里·德沃斯特·波特（Lorie Dewhirst Porter）的迷人文字，两人都是该地区的长期居民。Zahedi的照片非常诱人，他对这些住宅和花园充满热情，这些富有创造力的房主的设计元素和艺术收藏也是如此。建筑师和加州建筑史专家马克·阿普尔顿（Marc Appleton）撰写的前言也有助于为这些房屋建立当地的背景。

英文简介：

The seaside town of Montecito is often overshadowed by its neighbor Santa Barbara―which is generally how its residents like it. Though home and refuge to numerous celebrities, Montecito's intentional cultivation of a low-key profile has allowed for a unique community to emerge, and with it, a multifaceted interior and garden design culture. Montecito Style: Paradise on California's Gold Coast is the first book to present twenty houses and landscapes in an eclectic range of styles and rich architectural legacy that coalesce into a quintessential “California style.”

Heavily illustrated, Montecito Style features more than 250 photographs by celebrity and interiors photographer Firooz Zahedi, alongside captivating text by established design writer Lorie Dewhirst Porter, both longtime residents of the area. Zahedi's photographs are alluring, and his passion for these homes and gardens is palpable, as well as the design elements and art collections of these creative homeowners. An informed foreword by Marc Appleton, an architect and California architectural history expert, also helps establish the local context for these homes.