Interesting report on NPR’s Weekend Edition about John Lautner.
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The real estate market gets a bit slow around these parts starting around Thanksgiving. It’s always a hood time to catch up with blogs from around the country. Thanks to the Modernesia Facebook group for constantly updating with interesting links such as this one, from the Miletus Group, about the adaptable form-follows-function principles inherent…
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New article about a film about Eames in the Times
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Check it out, here. Photos by our neighbor, Boston Globe photographer, Joanne Rathe. Written by John Ellement. SOLD.
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Weston — known for its New England vernacular architecture and newer palatial interpretations of Shingle Style, Georgian, and other traditional themes — also has a less-familiar history of modernism. Beginning in the 1950s, Carl Koch and his Techbuilt company undertook a development on Spruce Hill Road in the King’s Grant neighborhood. The project was not…
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For all photos, click here. (SOLD) Offered at $879,900. Contact us via link or button at top. The views from this 1984-built house makes it feel like a vacation house. But you’ll appreciate how, on a daily, “real life” basis, it just plain works: four bedrooms; three full baths; a master suite with a fireplace, en…
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Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] SOLD, JANUARY 2012, $708,000. Contact us via link or button at top. Offered at $719,000 the original owners of this mid-century have done all the right things. More importantly, they haven’t done any of the wrong things. Those of you aficionados of this architecture might be justifiably wary of the descriptor…
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Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] (Under agreement) Offered at $879,900. Contact us via link or button at top. The views from this 1984-built house makes it feel like a vacation house. But you’ll appreciate how, on a daily, “real life” basis, it just plain works: four bedrooms; three full baths; a master suite…
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The Engine 1 Condos. Full post can be found below or by clicking through on the blog title.
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Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] SOLD January, 2012 $622,000. One of the first Peacock-Farm style houses built outside of the Peacock Farm development, this 1958-built modernist home was designed by Walter Pierce and updated by the current owners, an architect and a designer/artist, only the second set of owners of this particular example of…
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Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow caption=”on”] NEW PRICE: $599,000! In the late 1800s, city dwellers could take a short train and trolley ride out of Boston to “the country,” Waverley Village, incorporated into Belmont in 1859. You too can have this blend of urban and country, without having to travel anywhere. Originally designed as…
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Click any photo to enlarge: SOLD: If it is accurate that (as Walter Pierce noted in our discussion) 98% of the homes built in America are not designed by architects, then it partially explains the lowest-common-denominator plan-book design that has resulted in a glut of newly constructed spec houses in this region from the past decade-plus….
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