Wright Chat

I realize this is again off the thread, but may I ask you a couple of questions about your house? Are the slate floors original? I notice terrazzo floors in the vintage photo... Is the Saarinen-esque fireplace original? And the paint colors? It appears that the curtain is on a track which runs throu...

classic form- You have shown what I was trying to express in my previous post when I happened to mention Nelson. You are integrating the tv into a storage unit, neither hiding it, nor making a big deal of it. How cool is that, to live in a Nelson/ Chaddwick house? Very rare indeed. How many houses d...

Thanks and welcome, Allan. The winery: http://greenwoodridge.com/winery.htm A winery in California that looks like California. How refreshing!...no fake French Chateau made with stud walls topped with stucco. "I can't remember the first wine I ever had, but I'll never forget the first time I sa...

I personally do not like the "dishonesty" of hiding the television, as if it were some sin which we do not wish to admit having committed. The other extreme is equally unsatisfying: the symetrically placed minimalist object glorified in the center of a stark white wall. Today's flat screen...

A good collector usually has a book to accompany each acquisition. It's some sort of elaborate matrix system, where each piece and every book opens a new door. If a collector has no books, you can usually assume that he has someone else (art broker...) advising him what to acquire. Where's the joy i...

...Lord Palumbo has brought some wonderful furnishings to the home by designers like Alvar Aalto, Harry Bertoia, Norman Cherner, Charles and Ray Eames, Josef Hoffmann, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, George Nelson, Carlo Bugatti, Mr. Wright (from the Little House, Auldbrass Plantation, Price Tower, Wing...

An example of everything which we abhor: http://homeshoppingspy.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/corvado-tv-fireplace-in-room-setting.jpg Crazy gadgets preying on our indecision... from "skroib" one side is the fireplace, flip it around and you have your tube: http://www.cypher-sec.org/blog/wp-...

Oh, believe me, I'm excited as hell to get out to Iowa. And finally there are direct flights from LAX to Des Moines. In the past, I've had to take two or three flights and then make the hour drive to "Osky". Stafford is there already going at it. I wish I could stay longer... (and go see a...

Why did i pick this weekend to go to Oskaloosa?...

And of course, Luis Barragan:

http://www.thequietman.org/imagenes/bar ... stobal.jpg

Perfectly put...

Therein lies the dilemna. If we will no longer be allowed to enjoy this connection with our primordial memory, then isn't there a gaping hole that technology alone will never be able to fill?

Wow! As I had imagined, with decent photos taken obviously at a time when it was better maintained, the house looks amazing. Morris was brilliant! Whether we like it or not, there is an enormous amount of courage shown in using that pink. He used the same color scheme at the Murakami house, but it m...

But to run and hide from the mess created by guests and cook, the entire congregation in today's house then parades into the separate "formal dining room" and shifts into the pretenses of 19th century bourgeois habits. The so called "loft" interior is more honest (not unlike hist...

Thanks SDR- The amazing thing about the massive stone or brick fireplace of a Wright house, is that perhaps more than any other part of the home, all of the senses are engaged: sight, sound, smell, touch, maybe even taste. What other design focal point can come close to replacing that? Maybe the dem...

It's clear that Morris is acknowledging Schindler's stepped Bubeshko apartments right up the street on Griffith Park...

Morris:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8896423@N04/3542315937/

Schindler:

http://www.you-are-here.com/modern/bubeshko.jpg