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Before & After: Modern renovation by Tim Brown Architecture
I think most bloggers get an annoying amount of junk email from publicists, but every once in awhile one sees something so special it speaks to you and you want to share it with your readers. This was...
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Summer Houses by the Sea: The Shingle Style
Just in time for summer Rizzoli has a new, soon-to-be-released book about the ubiquitous beach house: Summer Houses by the Sea: The Shingle Style by Bret Morgan. Of course I have to lead this post...
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Single-Handedly, Contemporary Architects Draw by Hand
In this age of computer-aided everything (CAD, sketch-up, photoshop, etc) it's refreshing to know there are those in the architectural community who still draw by hand. No computer model, no matter how...
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Highlights from the Kips Bay showhouse 2019
This past week I had the pleasure of touring this year's Kips Bay Showhouse, the most venerated of showhouses, where the best of the best get together to raise funds for after-school programs in New...
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Etruscan dressing room at Osterley Park
I recently took a birthday trip to England to fulfill a lifelong obsession with English Country houses by touring 8 houses in 8 days. Many of these houses only survive thanks to the National Trust and...
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Robert Adam's Entrance Hall at Osterley House
After the Etruscan dressing room the Entrance Hall at Osterley House must be my favorite room in England.The space is so good that in fact it was the only room to be directly COPIED on a sound stage...
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Costuming THE CROWN at Winterthur
Last month I went to Winterthur (for the first time no less, can you believe it?) and while Winterthur is of course worth many trips of its own, the reason for the visit was to see "Costuming THE...
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A visit to Winterthur
As I mentioned in my previous post, Costuming the Crown, a few weeks ago I went to visit Winterthur, the renowned museum founded by Henry Francis duPont. The house had been his family home which over...
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The Landmark Trust chateau -or the most perfect little house in the world!
On my recent vacation spent touring English country houses one of the best decisions was to rent a property from The Landmark Trust. The Landmark Trust is a charity that rescues important buildings...
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MGM Style - Cedric Gibbons and the art of the golden age of Hollywood
As long time readers of this blog may remember, I'm a huge fan of movies, particularly classics. A large part of that fascination may be for the sets and the most famous set designer is, of course,...
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The Parisians: Tastemakers at Home
As I prepare for my trip to Paris next week, I'm salivating over the houses featured in Catherine Synave's new book: The Parisians: Tastemakers at Home . Parisians are known the world over for their...
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Classical Baltimore pied-à-terre for sale
One of my many hobbies is tracking real estate (yes they are all architectural!) so when a friend sent me this apartment for sale in the Mt Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore I knew immediately I would...
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The Villa Kerylos and the 'Villa of Delirium' by Adrien Goetz
The Cote D'Azur conjures up all sorts of romantic images, and one of the most romantic (and intellectual) houses dotting the coast is the Villa Kerylos. By christophe recoura -...
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Architectural collection at the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadero, Paris.
One of the great tourist attractions in Paris lies in Trocadero, the Palais de Chaillot. The palace was partially rebuilt and remodeled in 1937 for the Exposition Internationale in a classical moderne...
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John Singer Sargent at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
While much of the city is on self-imposed quarantine as we figure out Covid-19, most of our museums are still open (for now) and there is one show you can't miss if you are in Washington, John Singer...
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Learning from Ledoux
Claude Nicolas Ledoux has always been one of my favorite architects but finding information about him is a struggle. The few books written on him are hard to find and incredibly expensive. The little...
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Architect Mihran Mesrobian at home
Last fall I had the pleasure of touring the home of noted local architect Mihran Mesrobian when it was briefly on the market. Mesrobian was an Armenian-American architect responsible for many of the...
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The most beautiful mantel in the world
As so often happens with blogging, time gets away from you. As time builds you think the next post has to be really spectacular to explain the absence. Well 6 months have passed but in Covid time that...
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.
I wanted to drop by to wish you all a Merry Christmas, from my home to yours. Simpler garland on the mantel this year but the stockings look at home on the new mantel. I wanted to share these LED...
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