dinsdag 11 november 2008

Architecture for sale


architectureforsale.com has been in my favorites for a long time. Have a look at their featured listings. At the moment we have the Sinatra house in Palm Springs (1947, E. Stewart Williams). This one is for lease. A steal at $14000 a month... Furthermore there's the Barsha residence (1938, Richard Neutra, $ 2,495,000), the Johnson/Stone residence (1952, by one of my favorites: Craig Ellwood, $ 2,795,000). Also there's the Kaufmann house (1947, Richard Neutra). It was sold recently at auction for something like $ 19 mil. Apparently the deal fell thru 'cause it's back on the market for a lousy $ 12,975,000... However, personally I'd go for the James Real studio-office, designed in 1958 by Arthur Lavagnino (who?). It's pretty swanky, especially the groovy wooden screen in front. And it can be had for $ 899,000.

maandag 10 november 2008

from the pages of Arts & Architecture magazine


Recently Taschen outdid themselves (again) by releasing the complete reprint of Arts & Architecture magazine. It comes in 10 boxes and is a complete reprint of all issues (118) from 1945 to 1954. The rest will be released later (A&A was published till 1967). Arts & Architecture was instrumental in putting California modernism on the map. John Entenza (publisher of A&A) also started the legendary Case Study House program (subject of another giant book by Taschen) in 1945 to promote modern living and low cost building.

I scanned this picture from the March 1948 issue. This is the Eames house (Case Study House 8) in an early stage. The built version looks very different from these early designs.

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Vintage paperback typography