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A dramatic vision
Sun Architecture CriticWhen architect Hugh Hardy first stepped inside Baltimore's long-dormant Hippodrome Theatre five years ago, he didn't see the broken lights, the worn-out seats, the water-damaged plaster in the ceiling. He saw instead a once-lavish space in which...Tags: Arts, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Anchorage, University of Maryland, College Park, Theater
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10 best iconic modern house tours in North America
Anyone with a pile of money can build a big pile of a house, and back in the day, that's what you did. (See, for instance, "Downton Abbey.") But during the 20th century, a group of architects staged a controversial revolt. Why, they asked, couldn't less...Tags: Arts, Quincy Jones, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Sinatra, Mexico
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Home of the Week: Pacific Palisades compound with ocean views
This Pacific Palisades compound features a contemporary three-story main house, unobstructed ocean and coastline views and a guesthouse with a claim to fame. The Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen-designed Case Study No. 9 house was one of a series of...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Pacific Ocean
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Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Culture MonsterThe Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4... -
In Pasadena, Wallace Neff's last remaining 'bubble house'
L.A. at HomeWallace Neff's last remaining bubble house in the United States can be found in Pasadena.... -
Anthony J. Lumsden dies at 83; Southern California architect
Anthony J. Lumsden, a prolific Southern California architect who helped develop new ways of wrapping buildings in smooth glass skins, accelerating a shift that reshaped skylines around the world, died Sept. 22 in Los Angeles. He was 83.
The cause was...Tags: Arts, Fine Arts, Roxbury, Hamden (New Haven, Connecticut), Sydney (Australia)
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Country sleek: Urban country bucks decorating trends
Special to Tribune NewspapersFew juxtapositions are as classic as the rough-dressed rube midst debonair cosmopolitans. So it shouldn't be too surprising that every shelter mag you open right now is showing arrays of knocked-about furniture, bare-bulbed chandeliers and rusting...Tags: Clubs and Associations
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The Deal: Knoll classics go on sale Friday
L.A. at HomeConstructed of simple woods and natural cotton webbing, Jens Risom's 1941 lounge chair for Knoll is a design classic, inspiring knock-offs by manufacturers such as Ikea. Beginning Friday, those in the market for a designer original can get 15% off the... -
Set Pieces: 'Mad Men' gets the David Weidman memo
L.A. at HomePoor Peggy Olson. The "Mad Men" copywriter (played by Elisabeth Moss, above) has to fight for respect from her male colleagues (and office queen bee Joan), she frequently commits fashion don'ts, and she has an uncanny knack for choosing the wrong men.... -
The Deal: Knoll Classics sale begins Monday
L.A. at HomeTimeless designs by Harry Bertoia, Marcel Breuer, Florence Knoll, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen, among others, will be on sale as Knoll offers 15% off retail prices for one week only. Bertoia side chairs with vinyl seat...... -
Set Pieces: How 'V' created its mod space pod
L.A. at HomeIn a mother ship hovering above Manhattan, Anna, the queen of the reptilian alien visitors in ABC's "V," plots the extinction of Earthlings from the comfort of a design classic: the 2004 Spoon chair, above, designed by Antonio Citterio and...... -
Photographer Frederic Chaubin's weird and wonderful Soviet architecture
Culture MonsterPhotographer Frédéric Chaubin likes to believe he uncovered a fourth age of Russian architecture. In his book "CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed" (Taschen, $59.99), Chaubin captured 90 unconventional, rarely seen buildings constructed in...
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