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Roderick Grant
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Reidy, I don't recall this house in "Twilight." There was a scene in another Lautner house, one of the pair for Polin and Jacobsen (I believe the latter) in "John Lautner, Architect" ... or, "Have T-Square, Will Travel," 1949, pp 56-59. I believe it was James Garner's character's residence. |
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SDR
Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 18282 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Garner and Newman appear in "Twilight," it seems. In the trailer we see only the Cedric Gibbons residence ? There's a Gae Aulenti table lamp at 2:08 . . .
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Reidy
Joined: 07 Jan 2005 Posts: 1543 Location: Fremont CA
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2019 2:14 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe it wasn't this one. It was the Garner character's in any case, and it may be briefly visible in the trailer when Garner is on screen.
I hope the scene where Sarandon flips out and trashes Gibbon was a mockup. |
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Tom
Joined: 30 Jan 2011 Posts: 2775 Location: Black Mountain, NC
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Will have to take RG's word about the stair.
Very hard to understand that tho - from the posted plans.
Looks like stair between LR and Kitchen goes down to landing in far north corner of MasterBedroom.
Once down, one turns left to bedroom or right to outside stair to plunge pool. _________________ "taste is less important than non-conformity"
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Tom
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:04 am Post subject: |
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can't figure out how to delete this mistaken post
Apologies _________________ "taste is less important than non-conformity"
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Tom
Joined: 30 Jan 2011 Posts: 2775 Location: Black Mountain, NC
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:06 am Post subject: |
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Roderick Grant wrote: | What I wonder about is how Wolff and Lautner got away with that staircase! |
RG, you are talking about the curved staircase right? Is that in the guest wing?
It's not in the original house is it? Guest wing has it's own kitchen then? _________________ "taste is less important than non-conformity"
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Tom
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Roderick Grant
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 10:21 am Post subject: |
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Tom, you are right. The stair behind the fireplace goes to both the entrance and the guest wing. The stair across from the fireplace goes to the master bedroom on the lower level. The guest wing (which plan has never been published) is 2 stories, and must be the location of the curved staircase.
As I said, Lautner's drawings leave much to be desired, such as clarity. |
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Tom
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 11:34 am Post subject: |
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Okay good.
Defeinitely agree about Lautners plans - very muddy.
This was an unknown house to me before this post.
It's complexity seems to arise from carefull concepts
not mere "willfulness"
Great house. _________________ "taste is less important than non-conformity"
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SDR
Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 18282 Location: San Francisco
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the last link, Tom. A couple of the photos show the corbeled railroad-tie wall that's shown on the drawings. Another shows that the pool was visible from the street above---likely blocked now by the addition ?
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SDR
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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Tom
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:47 pm Post subject: |
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The only question of critique that comes up for me concerns the planes of plaster.
Assuming Lautner had free hand and a blank check here I wonder why he chose plaster instead of a wood finish?
For example say: the main ceiling. _________________ "taste is less important than non-conformity"
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SDR
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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Plaster isn't the cheapest surface---especially the sand plaster that Wright et al preferred. Sheetrock probably is, but that isn't the point: sometimes a
designer wants a neutral (and light-colored) plane as a foil for darker and/or richer surfaces. There's a big difference in the quality and quantity of light
in a white-surfaced space, compared to a wood-paneled one---for instance.
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SDR
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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 12:10 am Post subject: |
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Wouldn't you love to see some construction photos ?
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Tom
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Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 10:30 am Post subject: |
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.... would have liked to have been able to ask Mr. Lautner his thinking behind those choices.
YES! would love to see some construction shots. Got to be some somewhere.
Is there such thing as a Launtner archive I wonder? _________________ "taste is less important than non-conformity"
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