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Ode To Summer

Kategori: MCM Architecture

This floating house was designed by Singapore based architect Myitr Malcew for H2ORIZON, French developer that specializes in floating structures.

Built on top of a buoyant platform, it boasts two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a living room and an open kitchen, all encircled by large terraces.  

I am thinking South of Formentera. Off the coast anywhere in the world really. Anywhere.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

New Home!

Kategori: Architecture

It has been an exciting couple of months. Refurbishing has started. All I seem to do these days is drawing and eating, eating and drawing. 

 
Thus far, we are still re-arranging furniture and have managed to kit out the basics for the master room and bathroom (laminated floors, painted walls/ceiling). Onto the next project!

 

 

Tall, Dark and Handsome

Kategori: Architecture

It is a strange weather day in SoCal. Talk about four seasons in a day. All around wonderful.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Boutique Living - Venice, CA

Kategori: Hotels

There is a lot to learn from well designed small hotels. Here is a sample that could easily be applied to everyday living and not just holiday dreaming.
   
 
 

Architecture & Fashion

Kategori: MCM Architecture

Palm Springs Life magazine had a beautiful article of Marmol Radziner's prefab prototype (and home) in Desert Hot Spings, CA. I have bloged about the house before, but I thought the work was too marvelous not to share. 
Enjoy!
 
 
 
  
  
 
 
Styling: Laura Zanotti
Model: Aleksandra Eriksson
Makeup and Hair: Liz Dungate
Architect: Marmol Radziner
 
 

Haddawy - Johnson Steel House

Kategori: MCM Architecture

Los Angeles, CA
Date of completion: 1960
Square footage: 2,000
Space – 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom, kitchen,  2-car carport, pool.
 
 
My kingdom for a steel house. THIS steel house.
 
 
 
 
 
Interior Design by Mark Haddawy

Colorado Winter Wonderland

Kategori: MCM Architecture

Temperature today for Palm Springs reads 57F, although it also mentions that it feels like 61F. Really? Because I am in situ, and the images below is exactly how it feels.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Palm Springs Mod - details

Kategori: Inspiration

...Or how to bring 'Retro' to 'Modern' without sacrificing the best of both. This house is for sale through HOM in Palm Springs.
 
 
 
 

The perfect retreat

Kategori: MCM Architecture

 
Simple looks are a good policy. 

NEUTRA - Silver Lake Home, LA

Kategori: Inspiration

A quick beauty to keep in mind.
 
 
 Foto Credit Richard Powers. 
 
 

Koenig House Interiors by Mark Haddawy

Kategori: MCM Architecture

Los Angeles, CA
Date of design: 1957
Date of completion: 1958
Square footage: 1,320
Space – One story, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, living room, entry, entry courtyard and attached two-space carport.
 
In a nutshell, a wishlist.
 
  
 
 
     
Interior Design by Mark Haddawy.

 

'The house, surrounded completely by pools, introduced a new concept in making water an integral structure and landscape element. Brick terraces, spanning the pools, lead to the living areas, and the terraces add another plane and texture to the interplay between water and structure. During the hot months the water is pumped hydraulically from the pool to the roof gutter to fall through the scuppers and circulate and aerate the pool.

The house is a series of 10- by 22-foot bays 9 feet high, each frame is composed of an 8-inch I-beam, floor channel and three 4-inch wide flange columns. The frames were shop-fabricated and delivered to the site in one piece. The two exterior bays came shop-equipped with a 4-inch channel which tied into the columns at sill height.' - Esther McCoy 

1 Entry   2 Living room   3 Bedroom   4 Bedroom   5 Bathroom   6 Courtyard   7 Bathroom   8 Kitchen   9 Carport   10 Terrace   11 Reflecting pool 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

TWIN PALMS - FRANK SINATRA'S ESTATE

Kategori: MCM Architecture

I have been postponing showing this house but there is not Palm Springs without Sinatra. Dedicated to the true retro lovers out there.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

MARMOL RADZINER - DESERT PROTOTYPE

Kategori: MCM Architecture

Located in Desert Hot Springs, CA, the prototype pre-fab home is located on a 5 acre site and oriented to best capture views of San Jacinto peak and the surrounding mountains. Doubling the 2000 sq foot interior space, the home extends towards the landscape with covered outdoor living areas.
 
Sheltered living spaces blend the indoors with the outdoors, simultaneously extending and connecting the house to the north wing, comprised of a guest house and art studio. The L shaped plan layout defines a protected courtyard that includes a pool and firepit. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photographs via Marmol Radziner
  

A RENOVATED LAUTNER

Kategori: MCM Architecture

The mid-century architect's house in the Hollywood Hills had been written off by preservationists after one resident added a second story and other features ill-suited for the 1956 design. But after two years of renovation, current owner Mark Haddawy has revived Lautner's original vision.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
All photographs via Mark Haddawy

PreFab Modern - Blue Sky Homes

Kategori: MCM Architecture

A few days ago I was ever so lucky to visit a High Desert PreFab construction in Yucca Valley. My friend Caroline Ryder is writing an article about it for California Homes and knowing I have a little obsession for MCM, she invited me along. 
Let me just say, wow! I can imagine this is not for everybody, but I am definitely not one of those people. I love the idea of being in the middle of what seems to be Nowhere, the only reminder of neighbours a tilted roofline behind some stone formation or another. To wake up and face the rocky hills, take my morning coffee up a giant boulder and shower outdoors just off my bathroom? It is supposed to be a holiday home, but I am pretty sure I could live there every day of the year. 
 
Thank you Ryder.
B.
 
Architects Blue Sky - Graham Residence Project.
(Fantastic!) Interior Design by Christopher Kennedy.
Foto credits yours truly.
 
 
 
Further information and specs available at Blue Sky Homes.
 

Inspiration - Kaufmann House Landscape

Kategori: Inspiration

Designed by Richard Neutra in 1946, his concept was to build a “machine in the landscape, juxtaposing a foreign-made construct onto a wild, unrefined, natural setting”. In the years since, Palm Springs growth has destroyed his vision and the area’s desert landscape has been invaded with non-indigenous plantings.

An integral aspect of the restoration of the Kaufmann House was the recreation of the tension between house and landscape. Using plants native to the Southwest desert, the surrounding residential environment was obscured and the sense of the home extending through the raw desert was re-established.

I can certainly say that this is not something we can attempt in our backyard, but if there is one thing to learn from this, is to keep our yard 'desert'. As God intended.

B.

 

 

  

Landscape Design and Foto credits Marmol Radziner

Special Adobe Dwelling - O'Keefee

Kategori: MCM Architecture

To mark the 125th birthday of a legendary lady this fall, Architectural Digest revisits her home and studio in New Mexico, as featured for the first time in AD's July 1981 issue.
 
I am not sure desert living gets more real than this.
B.
Happy 125th Birthday on November 15th.
 
 
 
 
 
 
    
Here is the very interesting, full article. 
 

inspiration - Office Pods

Kategori: Inspiration

We feel very lucky to have a studio each after a conversation I had with our neighbour. Working on his sculptures out of his garage is not ideal considering the temperatures are still in the triple figures. He is considering adding a little structure to the far corner of his yard. 
So here are some I had on file.
B.
 
 
        

Please feel free to add crediits in the comments box, I archived those a while ago and I have no idea where they came from.

Modern Prefab - Marmol Radziner

Kategori: MCM Architecture

Here’s a modern low maintenance house, and my idea of Desert Living. 
 
This Californian prefab was designed by Marmol Radziner and is a great example of MCM philosophy for back to basics with low-maintenance and replaceable materials like concrete floors and metal siding. A 70-ft. covered porch offers outdoor entertaining areas for alfresco living during any season. Beyond the entrance, a sprawling outdoor lounge area sits beneath a curtain shade, overlooking the pool. Inside, behind floor-to-ceiling glass walls, minimalist interiors.
 
I am sold. 
B.
 
 

  

Foto credit Dwight Eschliman

Inspiration - House Envy

Kategori: Inspiration

Coming up is the home of Adam Levine, a spread I came across in Architectural Digest magazine a while ago. In a nutshell, it is the kind of home that I admire, not just because of the bones, it is after all a refurbished 1940 ranch in the H'wood Hills, but also because there is a great balance between personality and design. 

Not even the classics by Jean Prouvé, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen, Philippe Starck and artworks by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Shepard Fairey, Mark Seliger, Andy Warhol and the rest take character away from the owner. 

And that's pretty special.

B.

    

  
  

 

Design credit Mark Haddawy, serial MCM collector and designer extraordinare.

Foto credits Architectural Digest.