ABOUT OUR BOOKS

Welcome to Steve Gross and Susan Daley's photography pages. We chose to use a blog format to show our images so that they'd be presented in a fluid and ever changing platform. We will be posting images from our books and select shots from some of our designer and architect commissions. There will be links to our garden and landscape photography and we will also be adding page links to view some of our food , travel and lifestyle photography.

CREOLE HOUSES

Creole Houses celebrates the character, style and unmistakable elegance of the Creole architecture, gardens, kitchens and interiors found in New Orleans and throughout the state of Louisiana.

     "Creole Houses is a must-have..for all who have a wet, warm spot in their hearts for New Orleans and environs.  These days, who doesn't?"   says World of Interiors Magazine.

     "Steve Gross and Sue Daley are known for their evocative photographs of historic architecture and interiors, where intangibles such as time and spirit often seem to steal the scene."    from Southern Accents Magazine.

     

Pitot House is a quintessential Creole house and a Louisiana Landmark, open to the public.

The port cochere to the hidden courtyard of a Creole townhouse in New Orleans.

A diminutive kitchen where Creole cuisine such as etouffes and gumbos are prepared.

A mantlepiece in a Creole cottage in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

A gracious raised plantation house in the False River countryside.

A Creole plantation home which has been in the same family for generations.

A salon filled with fine French and Louisiana- made Creole furnishings.

The " pigeonnier " at Parlange plantation with interior converted into a guesthouse.

     "Creole Houses....sets a new standard for so-called coffee table books...With each marvelously preserved property, you step back in time to savor the hard-core Creole experience."   said Jim Fraiser of the Oxford Eagle.

click to see more Creole garden images

   

CATSKILLS COUNTRY STYLE

The Catskills Country Style book features old farmhouses, rustic cabins, fishing camps, converted churches, and early stone houses as well as several contemporary homes, such as the visionary architect Sy Rutkin's modern shell house. The book includes a beautiful introduction by the writer Francine Prose.

 The poet Allen Ginsberg said about Gross and Daley's photographs of Catskills waterfalls:

     "These are excellent photos,

       fine details of animate white mist,

       exquisite threads of luminous waterfalls."

Artist and illustrator Joe Eula's stone house. 

The Woodland Valley streamside house of the owners of Historical Materialism.

Farmhouse of an artist in Cherry Valley.

Ron Smith designed this mountaintop house with architects Deborah Weintraub and Scott Lance above the funky village of Fleischmans.

A chaise lounge was designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini, a member of the Italian "Bolidism" group.

Artist Frank Faulkner's art studio and home in a former church and manse in the town of Catskill.

SANTA FE HOUSES AND GARDENS

There have been many books done on the beautiful houses of Santa Fe, so when we were asked by our publisher Rizzoli to do this book we decided to concentrate on the artists who first discovered this historic place and made it popular.

 We both studied photography at the University of New Mexico in the 1970's when the program was run by legends such as Beaumont Newhall and Van Deren Coke.

click to see images from Santa Fe and New Mexico

AT HOME WITH THE PAST

While doing editorial assignments and finding great houses for various magazines in the 1990's we came across so many talented designers and artists that we decided to feature them in this book.  Each house is very personal and filled with choice artifacts from the past.

Artist and cabinetmaker Richard Warholic makes his own furniture in a small cottage in southern Florida in the midst of a jungle garden where he grows all manner of tropical fruit.

Jacques and Puanani Flechemuller's church in the upstate New York village of  Pine Hill has been their home since moving from France and Hawaii, respectively. 
A 1920's Moorish Revival overlooking Silver Lake's Reservoir in Los Angeles, whose former residents include Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller.








A classical Pennsylvania farmhouse owned by a fashion designer and artist, both of whom love color and collecting.

OLD FLORIDA

click to see images from OLD FLORIDA book

OLD HOUSES

OLD HOUSES was our first book of interior photography, published by Stewart, Tabori and Chang in 1991. It began when we became intrigued by the Aiken Rhett House in Charleston, SC  with it's sense of lost history and ambience.  

Stately Hyde Hall, with its dusty footprints, is on the cover of the hardcover edition. 

An antique ice chest sitting on the porch of a country summer estate called 'Woodlands" in the mountains of N.E. Georgia is on the cover of the paperback edition.

OLD GREENWICH VILLAGE

We photographed this book in the early 1990's for Preservation Press, which was a very fine publisher and a part of The National Trust For Historic Preservation. Greenwich Village hasn't changed that much since and there is still much history to be found on these old streets. 

The auditorium at The New School was designed by Joseph Urban

Washington Square Park 

The Universal Grill restaurant on Bedford St.

Caffe Reggio on MacDougal St. was the first coffee house in Greenwich Village and opened in 1927. Still a landmark of bohemian New York where coffee- sipping poetry- reading patrons have included Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Bob Dylan, John Nesci and more recently Sparrow and Steve Earle.