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Tag Archives: California
Palm Springs Weekdays
The discreet 9-room Hideaway, my Palm Springs home for three nights GOOD MORNING from Palm Springs, California, where I am, instead of the woman taking yard waste to the dump or running to catch the Flatbush Avenue bus, a minor … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, TRAVEL
Tagged Albert Frey, architecture, California, Cara Greenberg, Donald Wexler, E. Stewart Williams, Endless Vacation, Hideaway, magazine, mid-century modern, Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s, Palm Springs, Palm Springs Modern Tours, Palmer and Krisel, Robert Imber, William Cody, William Krisel
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Little Boxes
AFTER HALF A CENTURY, LITTLE BOXES made of ticky-tacky do not look all the same. I remember noting how the Long Island development I grew up in evolved over the years, as homeowners made changes that gave their once-identical split … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950s, California, housing development, Julia Baum, photographer, Santa Clara, suburban, tract houses
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