Cabin Porn: Inspiration for Your Quiet Place Somewhere
By Beaver Brook, edited by Zach Klein, feature stories by Steven Leckart, feature photography by Noah Kalina (Little, Brown and Company, 2015) Buy It NowInside each of us is a home ready to be built.” The wildly successful Cabin Porn website taps into a near-universal fantasy: to escape to a simpler life someplace gorgeous. The Beaver Brook collective did that and more. Successful urban entrepreneurs (editor Klein cofounded Vimeo), they escaped the daily grind with friends, forming a DIY home-building cooperative in the Upper Delaware Valley, where they teach aspiring timberframers and still find time to relax in rocky brooks and a wood-fired hot-tub. Their online photos of this adventure attracted some 10 million followers, many of whom sent in photos of their own hand-built cabins, treehouses, yurts, and even a repurposed grain silo. Guaranteed to elicit sighs of envy, this highly browsable book interweaves 10 detailed narratives of cabin love with a curated selection of photos of quiet places, far and wide.