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A boathouse on the Obersee, a lake in Bavaria, Germany, is among the properties featured in the book Cabin Porn.
CABIN PORN Bares all that is au naturel NOA O HK OA KALINA LINA/ A/L /Little, Brown and Company
This shelter in Scottsdale, Ariz., was built perpendicular to the chimney in order to create a cloistered outdoor space. BETH J. HARPAZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A luscious new book of photos called Cabin Porn isn’t inviting readers to hole up in the woods to look at naked bodies. It is inviting them to look at photos about holing up
in the woods. The book is the brainchild of tech entrepreneur Zach Klein, co-founder of Vimeo, who bought some land in upstate New York in 2010 with his wife and friends. They started collecting photos of cabins as “inspiration to guide us and motivate us” to build
their own. Eventually, they built some cabins on the property they call Beaver Brook, and they shared the photo collection in a popular Tumblr blog called Cabin Porn. They also opened a school at Beaver Brook where people can learn to timber-frame a building from scratch in a few days.
All of that led to the Cabin Por n book, published by Little Brown, edited by Klein and aptly subtitled, “Inspiration for your quiet place somewhere.” Ironically, Klein says the title Cabin Porn is “difficult for me to justify” because “it was never a fantasy. My friends and I were out there
doing it.” Cabin Porn isn’t the only sign that cabins are having a moment. The New York Times’ T magazine recently proclaimed in a headline that cabins are the “New American dream.” Pinterest is loaded with accounts like Rustic Cabin Life and C o z y C ab i n s. S t u d e n t s at Harvard’s Millennial Housing Lab just launched a project called Getaway, which offers tiny houses in rural settings for rent by the night for city dwellers looking for an escape. Why cabins? Simplicity and immersion in nature explain much of the appeal. “There’s something really satisfying about being reminded that life outdoors is really affordable,” Klein said. “You don’t need a McMansion to enjoy the woods.” But while cabins might be simple structures, the
images in Cabin Porn are spectacular and compelling, even when the buildings are little more than ramshackle shelters tacked together from scavenged boards. The rustic settings are beautiful, on mountaintops and by the water’s edge, in deserts and the woods. And the dwellings’ designs are intriguing, from conver ted vehicles and silos to tree houses, pods, sheds and bungalows — along with more conventional wood-frame homes with pitched roofs. The term “cabin” has a particular American sensibility, Klein notes, part of the narrative of taming the frontier and cutting down trees to build homes and settlements. Log cabins symbolize “resilience and self-reliance,” he said.
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