5 books
Aaron Rolph
In the hands of Europeans, a mountain hut is more than shelter. It’s an expression of centuries of culture and intimate knowledge of life in the continent’s highest peaks. The photo-dense Alpine Refuges offers a tour of some of these…
Gestalten
The follow-up to Rock the Shack, and the pitch is in the title: Buildings you go to in order not to be found. Cabins, huts, treehouses, bothies, and small retreats from around the world, shot well and presented with plans…
Gestalten
The one that started the small-cabin publishing run. Huts, shelters, and retreats from the last couple of decades, plus a handful of older icons, arranged for browsing — forest cabins on stilts, mountain refuges, a sauna at the end of…
Matt Titone
No matter how swanky the houses in the third iteration of Gestalten’s addictively voyeuristic Surf Shacks series, you know there’s sand on the floor—maybe not in the luscious pictures, but just before or after. What distinguishes these forty homes, from…
Indoek
Indoek photographed surfers at home — not in the water, in their houses, vans, trailers, and cabins — and the result is a portrait of a subculture through its interiors. Shapers’ garages, boards stacked in hallways, plants, records, wetsuits drying…
