This beachfront house in South California is designed by Richard Meier and his partner Michael Palladino for art collectors. Use paint in beautiful colors that replicate the blues and greens of the ocean. The colors of the sunset or sunrise are also beautiful in a beach home. The pale pink of a summer sky right before sunset is a lovely shade for a bedroom or bathroom. (more…)
PACIFIC PALISADES has been a cool escape from Los Angeles noise, grit and heat ever since Sunset Boulevard was extended to reach the beach in the 1920s. It offered the ocean views of Malibu, the canyon hideaways of landlocked Hollywood Hills and a cloistered playground for Beverly Hills movie stars. The enclave, one of Southern California’s most treasured locales, also became a palette for pioneering architects who embraced the distinctive topography with experimental glass houses.
The Palisades, it can be said, shaped the houses, rather than the houses shaping the Palisades. After World War II, Richard Neutra, Charles Eames and other Case Study House designers landed in the woody bluffs here. (more…)
Big 5 2005 was the largest building, building materials and construction exhibition ever held in the Middle East. Last year’s visitor numbers had increased by 14.4% from the year before to 38,535 and it has become an annual meeting place for all industry professionals. The expectations for this year’s expo, therefore, are very high.
Approximately 2,500 companies will exhibit from 60 countries and the show will encompass seven key product sectors: Building and Construction; Water Technology and Environment; Air Conditioning and Refrigeration; Cleaning and Maintenance; Glass and Metal; Bathrooms and Ceramics and Marble and Machinery. (more…)
Julie Carroll is one who follows her dreams. They have led to her home, her career and even her kitchen decor.
This series of events began in the 1990s when, as an employee of the federal government, she was living in northern Virginia. Her boat was docked on Kent Island where she went weekends.
After too many weekends on the road she said ” I felt the water calling and I needed to move.” Although friends tried to get her to delay this action, she went ahead and bought a house on the water with a boat dock nearby.
Her next move was to leave her government job to go after another dream. (more…)
Furniture manufacturers are betting we’re so fed up with technology and mass-produced goods that we will want to put our money on the “Simple Life.”
This yearning for a vanishing lifestyle has nothing to do with Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton.
It has everything to do with the Arts & Crafts Movement that made Gustav Stickley, Frank Lloyd Wright and Greene & Greene household names.
The most repeated mantra at last month’s International Home Furnishings Market was the simple lines and fine craftsmanship of Arts & Crafts and Mission furniture. Nearly 25 percent of the manufacturers introduced this style at the market, according to a Furniture/Today and Home Accents Today survey. Among them are Hooker’s Simply American, Magnussen Home’s Oak Park, Copeland’s Prairie by Frank Lloyd Wright and Stickley’s additions to Pasadena Bungalow and Historic Mission. (more…)
