Romance of the Mission [antikvár]

No other American architectural or interior style can claim as long or as rich a tradition as the Mission style. The first expressions of Spanish Mission architecture in New Mexicowere painstakingly crafted under impossible conditions by Pueblo Indians with the design, engineering, and supervision of FranciscanIntroductionfriars. Between 1600 and 1640, numerous massive churches of adobe and stone were erected in isolated Pueblo villages of the Rio Grande watershed. While these mission churches were among the first European buildings builtnorth of Mexico, they had long andThe timeless look of a Mission-deep roots in the cultures of Spain, ^.^le eranda has been convmc-ingiy created by designer MichaelMexico, and North Africa. The true .Anderson m the los Angelas"home of Brian Gibson and Lynnorigins of the Mission style can be ;whitfieid. Arches and waiis werepainted and sandblasted totraced back to the eighth and ninth achieve a time-weathered patina.