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Iconic Movie Houses - Part II

Here is part II of our exploration of iconic modern homes featured in film:

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Iconic Movie Houses - Part I

Each of our designs is inspired by the lives of those who will work, live, and play in them. The lives that occupy the work, inspire the body of work. Architectural spaces hold the stories of our lives, and similarly, movie settings are containers for unfolding storylines.

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Creating Serenity

The desert is open space and long views, but also the close-up, detailed perfection of the cactus flower. It is nature’s serene minimalism. This is the setting for our project inside the gated community of The Vintage in Indian Wells, California.

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Gardens as Art - The Designs of Piet Oudolf

Piet Oudolf is an award winning landscape architect and one of the most highly sought after designers of public and private gardens today.

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Critically Acclaimed in Her 90’s - Modernist Luchita Hurtado

The artist Luchita Hurtado lived until nearly one hundred years old, passing away at the height of critical acclaim for her work. In our continuing series exploring the lives of modern artists, we take inspiration from Luchita’s lifelong dedication and commitment to her art, her willingness to ever evolve, and the perspectives she has contributed to modern art.

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Tour Dalí’s Home - Surreal!

The 1931 painting, The Persistence of Memory, by Salvador Dalí is the one most of us can identify as Surrealist. And we might remember his startling spider-leg mustache. But who knew that he also designed a sofa inspired by the red lips of 20s film star Mae West?

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Alexander Calder - Living as Art

Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976) changed the art world by introducing movement into sculpture.

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Remembering Gin D. Wong LA Architect

Though not well known to the general public, Gin Wong, who died this month at age 94, was the creative eye behind several iconic postwar Southern California buildings.

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Concept

Earlier this year the George Sturges house in Brentwood, California, was put up for auction at Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) with bidding beginning at $2.5 m.

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Remembering Ceramicist Harrison McIntosh

Harrison McIntosh, California modernist potter and sculptor, passed away this week at the age of 102.

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Cubism: Modern Art Revolution

The avant-garde art movement known as Cubism which emerged in Paris between 1906 and 1911 was influenced by the Impressionists, café society, and the birth of the mechanical age – perhaps even by early motion pictures.