Lost Horizon Bookstore

12/08/2025

12/09/2022

Come join us for a BOOK SIGNING.
Celebrity photographer, Firooz Zahedi and local author, Lorie Dewhirst Porter will sign their recently released, MONTECITO STYLE, at LOST HORIZON BOOKSTORE, Saturday December, 17th, 2-4pm. 539 San Ysidro Road in Montecito's upper Village

11/09/2022

Just in time for the Holidays. Firooz Zahedi and Lorie Dewhirst Porter will be signing copies of MONTECITO STYLE on December 17th., 2-4pm.
To purchase your copy call or visit our website.
Phone: 805-962-4606. Website: losthorizonbooks.com
We can hold your purchase here until the book signing, or get it signed for you.

03/29/2020

With shop closed, I am digging through boxes...Fun piece of ephemera featuring our own “Santa Barbara” circa 1930-40’s ?

03/19/2020

Joe DeYong (1894-1975)
LA SERANATA

In September 1926, De Yong moved to Santa Barbara, California, where he worked alongside Edward Borein and Maynard Dixon. He was the official artist of the rancheros visitadores, an equestrian social club in Santa Barbara.

03/15/2020

One more Ludmilla Welch. FRY HARBOR, Santa Cruz Island. 1917. Part of THE SANTA BARBARA SHOW at Lost Horizon Bookstore

03/14/2020

Ludmilla Welch (1867-1925)
LA CUMBRE TRAIL, SANTA BARBARA

As a teenager, Ludmilla met the artist Thaddeus Welch, despite a twenty-three year age difference, the couple was married in 1883. The couple eventually settled in Marin County and then Santa Barbara, where they developed a loyal patronage. The two often painted side by side.

03/12/2020

Robert Wilson Hyde (1875-1951) Father of Mountain Drive’s founder, Bobby Hyde.
HAVE I NOT WINE AND LOVE TO DRINK WITH ME...
“Hyde’s special interest was the revival of the medieval art of book illumination. Hyde produced one-of-a-kind volumes with pages of parchment, written in beautiful Gothic calligraphy and illustrated in luminescent colors.”- Michael Redmon

https://www.independent.com/2009/10/10/what-can-you-tell-me-about-s-b-artist-robert-hyde/

03/06/2020

BARBARIANA or Scenery, Climate, Soils and Social Conditions of Santa Barbara City and County, California
1888. A scarce tract aimed at perspective settlers extolling the culture, agriculture, trade, transportation facilities, scenery, and more of the Santa Barbara area. Part of THE SANTA BARBARA SHOW at Lost Horizon Bookstore