Ultimate Horse Barns

by Randy Leffingwell

Book Overview

The love of horses often finds its expression in the horse barn-in the grandeur of the architecture, the extravagance of the detail, and the extent of the comforts that owners lavish on their favorite... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0760337861
• ISBN13: 9780760337868
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Horse Enthusiasts Will Love it!

This pictorial gem makes a great gift for the horse-lover in your life. The photographs are absolutely breathtaking.

Wow

This book has some pretty great pictures! Definitely a great gift for any horse lover that dreams of having their own barn.

Ultimate Horse Barns

As a lover of horses and pictoral books on design, I have been looking for this type of book on horse barns for quite some time. This book contains a well thought out range of historic and new equine related buildings that have been beautifully photographed. The descriptive passages relating to each property give a very personal and charming look at the development, building process and use of the buildings. My interest in the book was primarily in the photographs which are not over powered by the text. I have purchased a number of other books on the subject but they do not compare to the quality of this publication. For horse lovers, would be barn builders and lovers of unique architecture, I highly recommend "Ultimate Horse Barns".

Spectacular Accommodations for Prize Horses

And I thought that people spent a lot of money on houses. Then again, with horses of the caliber being housed here, I suppose the cost of the Ultimate Horse Barns being shown here isn't significant after all. You could build nearly any of them for say $4 to $5 million. Needless to say these are not little sheds just to keep the horse out of the rain. The buildings included here range from new construction to buildings that are well over a hundred years old. Many of these buildings are part of institutions such as the University of Vermont, the Kiwanis Club of West Toronto. Some belonged to the rich and famous, such as Vanderbilt. Some are working horse farms, but with a specialty in breeding or training high end horses. Note though that these are working barns. There are horses here, horses being groomes, trained, or like 'Bailey' on page 125 looking out of his stall as if to say, 'OK, it's morning, where's my breakfast.'