Wright Chat

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I suspect the cars appear distorted because the buildings were photographed with a View Camera, using shifts and tilts to keep the straight lines straight.

Cedar Contemporary is a new term to me, too, but the type was immediately clear to me when I saw the moniker in the piece. It all started with the influence of Sea Ranch. As building codes became stricter, and the use of massive amounts of single paned glass became less of an option, that type, inf...

Maher here displays a collage of stylistic cues that might inspire a new term: Peculiatecture. He's got it all going on; the massive "crown molding" separating the walls from the roof, and now painted an allmost Howard-Johnson turquoise, lets us know we're in for some kind of treat. Inside, a portf...

Those furnishings give me pain.

This one's now listed:

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhom ... 1526-20658

I went to the open house. The house has been sensitively updated with a new kitchen and flooring. It is lovely. It's a small house with each floor rising up to follow the hillside. The studio is on the top floor and it's a particulary special aerie with an entire sliding wall of windows on one side...

Apparently so. https://www.google.com/maps/place/3763+Fredonia+Dr,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90068/@34.1329875,-118.3637566,3a,75y,137.99h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s_hCxyCU3cQ4LN6yZTkpHtQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x63ac541d53e0b186!8m2!3d34.1327482!4d-118.3634947!6m1!1e1 If anyone goes to the open hous...

Is that a small funicular railway?

Looks like a nice place to live, but with a mix of sympathetic and not so sympathetic modernization.

Wright often placed the "back door" (kitchen door) very near the entrance door, in this period; circulation inside became a loop of sorts, beginning and ending on the same side of the house. Yeah, but they weren't usually side by side. Having a utility entrance right there next to the front door st...

As originally designed, the open porch on the main level, with that odd opening near the living room windows, seems poorly resolved. When the porch was enclosed, it would have made sense to eliminate that opening entirely, resolve the rectangular trim around the living room windows, leaving the ext...

. . . and, the follow-up, on our 24/7 news cycle: https://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/trump-says-his-comments-about-sweden-were-referring-to-a-fox?utm_term=.hj29J3q7z#.if86gAGpy So, we get another peek into how the Trump mind works: Media = Reality ? The exquisite irony of this man chiding the p...

Roderick Grant wrote:It's just a short walk from Thunderbird Lake, not far from Papoosa Park, a quick drive up Cherokee Road to Hardy and spitting distance from the Missouri line. You could drive up to the border of a Saturday night and spit on Missouri. What more could you want?

How far to the nearest supermarket?

Too bad Cherokee Village might as well be Bumfuq Egypt, it's so far away from anything resembling civilization.

And there's a lot of prefinished paneling someone's gonna have to do something about.