Lorie will discuss details about the sumptuous homes depicted in her book, Montecito Style: Paradise on California’s Gold Coast. The residences featured in this book reflect the diversity of design that has defined California living for more than a century: early standard-setters by George Washington Smith and an Andalusian-style abode by his protégé (and Santa Barbara’s first licensed female architect) Lutah Maria Riggs, Beaux-Arts mansions, converted carriage houses, nouveau palazzi, low-slung midcentury modern abodes, and an iconic concrete-and-glass house.
Enjoy cocktails and canapes as Lorie provides an inside look at this idyllic coastal haven.
Lorie Dewhirst Porter is a writer specializing in architecture, interiors and culture.
After studying for a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, she attended UCLA, graduating with a degree in World Literature. She attended law school at USC, and practiced law for a decade before entering the publishing world as a legal editor. She is the author of Montecito Style with noted photographer Firooz Zahedi. She has written for a variety of lifestyle publications including Galerie Magazine, C Magazine, and Santa Barbara Magazine.
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Lorie Porter