Perfection On The Strand Written by: Lynn Morgan Photography by: Scott Mayoral The sculpted, stainless sell door, a work of art on its own, pivots on its axis, inviting guests into this 5200-square-foot, concrete, steel and glass Ray Kappe designed house on Manhattan Beach's world-famous Strand, inches from the sand and sea. Inside, a three-story atrium, paneled in teak, is filled with exotic...
INSPIRED LIVING Written by: Lynn Morgan Photography by: Scott Mayoral The precise, challenging facade, clad in zinc-coated stainless steel, looms four commanding stories above the street, a sleek and polished design by one of contemporary architecture's boldest and most innovative firms. Designed in 1984 by Morphosis, the ground-breaking firm headed by future Pritzker laureate Thom Mayne and his...
Wright on the Market La Miniatura & Los Banos, CA The quarterly newsletter of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy - Volume 19, Issue 3 - Summer 2009 CALIFORNIA: Pasadena - Alice Millard House, "La Miniature" (1923) Recognized by Wrights as the earliest "Usonian" house, "La Miniatura" is also the first residence to utilize Wright's highly inventive textile block building system. The...
Die Miniatur - des Meisters - German...
Comprami Progettata da Frank Lloyd Wrigth n egli anni Venti, una storica residenza e oggi invendita. Otto milioni di dollari per abitare il mito. Per chi si accontenta de meno, finestre all'asta e una mosta al Guggenheim Additional images may be viewed at www.millardhouse.com (Article originally published in Italian Magazine "Case Da Abitare: Interiors, Design & Living" - June,...
Wright's Way We would all love to live surrounded by masterpieces - but imagine living within one. That's exactly what the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright created, as just one of many projects that allow him to be considered a leading light in the world's most pre-eminent architects from the 20th century. While the art market may be shaky, savvy cultural connoisseurs are investing in iconic...
Revisiting The Kaufmann House It's like being in Switzerland: You want to see the Matterhorn," says Crosby Doe a veteran salesman of architecturally significant houses. And when in Palm Springs, he adds, "You want to see the Kaufmann Desert House." That kind of fame can have its drawbacks, however, especially for the person in charge of selling a house that nearly eveybody, it seems, wants to see. Out...
Desert House has made modern architectural history with its program, and international acclaim. Its incredible value today is peace and serenity imparted by space. Space within and without are one. Here, isolated in the vast panoramic landscape of Cochella Valley, the mystery and magic of the desert have not been conquered, they are tangible. This is architecture at home within the vast array of stars in...
En Californie - Aux sources de la modernite Villas de producteurs ou havres boh'mes de Malibu, les maisons californiennes des ann'es 50 sont devenues les grandes stars de l'architecture. Toutes font l'apologie de l'espace, de la lumi're et de la' piscine. Certaines de ces 'mid-century houses' se vendant des dizaines de millions de dollars, il est plus raisonnable de louer les moins connues. Nous sommes...
The southern edge of Los Banos (Merced County), where only dusty roads and distant silos interrupt the endless landscape of tilled Central Valley soil, seems an unlikely place to happen upon the work of America's architectural icon. But past the cattle feedlot and leaning hay barn, deep in a field where winter wheat and cantaloupe mark the seasons, sits a ranch house designed by an aging Frank Lloyd...