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Palm Springs Redux
MY WHIRLWIND TRIP TO PALM SPRINGS on assignment for Endless Vacation magazine took place the week before last, though it seems forever ago. I’ve been bouncing around since — from Long Island, where I packed up two-thirds of my furnishings … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, TRAVEL
Tagged Ace Hotel, architecture, Donald Wexler, hedge, hotels, JP Denmark, mid-century modern, Norma's, Palm Springs, Parker, Robert Alexander, shopping, vintage modern
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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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Wackadoodle Hamptons Houses, One Year Later
THIS IS AN UPDATE OF A POST that appeared almost exactly one year ago. Both houses are still on the market. Both have been reduced. Won’t somebody please buy them? NO ONE COULD ACCUSE THESE HOUSES of being cookie-cutter. While … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND, PROPERTIES FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Accabonac Harbor, beach house, Butterfly House, East Hampton, Eero Saarinen, fisheye, Henri Gueron, Henry T. Howard, Jackson Pollock, modernist, Palm Springs, post-modern, rya rugs, shingled, Springs, TWA Terminal, white cube, window
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Wackadoodle Hamptons Architecture
NO ONE COULD ACCUSE THESE HOUSES of being cookie-cutter. While cruising the East Hampton listings in the $600-800,000 range, these two, er, unusual houses came up. They’re not entirely out of context. The Hamptons have long been known for outrageous … Continue reading
Posted in ARCHITECTURE, HAMPTONS, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, LONG ISLAND, PROPERTIES FOR SALE, REAL ESTATE/INVESTING
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, 19th century, architecture, beach house, Butterfly House, East Hampton, Eero Saarinen, farmhouse, front porch, Hamptons, Henri Gueron, Henry T. Howard, Jackson Pollock, modernist, Palm Springs, post-modern, rya rugs, shingled, Springs, TWA Terminal
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Vegas, baby!
Old Vegas of the ’60s EVERYONE KNOWS what Las Vegas, the city that never stops reinventing itself, looks like today: a “World” theme park, with a half-scale Eiffel Tower, fake Italian lake village, and illuminated pyramid of Luxor. My personal … Continue reading
