Archive for the Mid Century Modern Category
Concordia Mid Century Birkemeier Design – New on Market
7005 NE 29th Portland, OR 97211
This is a rare opportunity to own an original Birkemeier mid century home in immaculate condition. The home has been tastefully updated by the designer owner keeping in tact the period details while enhancing the modern aesthetic and conveniences. These homes rarely go on market and this is a great example of one that has been updated while keeping the details that make the Birkemeiers highly sought after homes. Original, natural wood beamed vaulted ceilings greet you as you enter the main floor living space. The slightly curved edges on each of the beams are a clear indication that you are in a Birkemeier original. A creative builder that enjoyed designing and building high quality homes each with original characteristics and details. Large fireplaces in both the living room and around the corner into the dining room remind us that the hearth is indeed the center and heart of the home.
Features:
- 4 bedrooms and 3 full baths
- 2,916 sq ft
- Vaulted Natural Beamed Ceiling in the Front Room
- 2 Fireplaces
- Double Car Garage
- Full Finished Basement with Full Bar (Will Easily Convert to a 2nd Full Kitchen)
- Updated Kitchen and Baths with Custom Designer Tiles and Finishes
- Landscaped Backyard with Large Patio for Outdoor Entertaining
- Roman Brick Facade with Unique Birkemeier Detailing
- Located in the popular Concordia neighborhood
- More Photos and Details at the Concordia Birkemeier Site
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Contact Marisa Swenson at Modern Homes Portland to schedule a showing – marisa@m-homes.net – 971.285.7955
Modern Events – Documentary: Eames – the Architect and the Painter
Eames Magic
It’s almost here, the Eames documentary by Jason Cohn and Bill Jersey! Playing here in Portland November 25th – December 1st at the Clinton Street Theater, showings at 7 and 9pm.
About the film:
The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are widely regarded as America’s most important designers. Perhaps best remembered for their mid-century plywood and fiberglass furniture, the Eames Office also created a mind-bending variety of other products, from splints for wounded military during World War II, to photography, interiors, multi-media exhibits, graphics, games, films and toys. But their personal lives and influence on significant events in American life – from the development of modernism, to the rise of the computer age – has been less widely understood. Narrated by James Franco, Eames: The Architect and the Painter is the first film since their death dedicated to these creative geniuses and their work.
Check out the trailer:
Saturday Open House – John Storrs Original Northwest Regional Design
John Storrs Designed Mid Century Home
Open this Saturday from 1-4pm come by 11990 SW Butner Road to tour an amazing house.
Home Details:
- Listing – 1199o SW Butner Rd – John Storrs Original
- John Storrs Northwest Architect
- Visit to Butner Rd
- Virtual Tour – Butner Rd
Photo Gallery Slide Show
11990 SW Butner Rd
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Modern Home Weekend Events – July 2011
Belluschi House
This weekend don’t miss the Architectural Heritage Center’s second annual Heritage Home Tour. This year the Pietro Belluschi house in Willamette Heights is on the tour.The home completed in 1948 and it was the last house he designed before becoming the Dean of the MIT School of Architecture & Planning, and was said to be his favorite. He liked it so much that he purchased the property upon returning to Portland in 1973, and lived there the rest of his life.
Tour Details:
Saturday, July 30, 2011
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Members: $35 per person
General Public: $50 per person
Visit the AHC website to purchase your tickets.
Summer Garage Sale and Other Events at The Good Mod
Head down to The Good Mod warehouse this coming Sunday for a summer time sale, art, MCM furnishing/decor, jewelry, lemonade, fun. Presented by Big Things.
Leroy Setziol – Oregon Artist
Door Carved by Leroy Setziol at the Frank Shell House
As some of you know, I have been reporting on the progress at the Frank Shell house, from short sale to bank owned and now saved and being restored by a skilled contractor with an eye for the architects original vision. I was always very curious about the front door to the home (pictured above). It is obviously hand carved and very much an original piece of mid century art. While chatting with the current owner a while ago, he mentioned that the door was carved by a local artist friend of Shells that gave this door to the Shells as an anniversary gift and that artist had done carvings that were featured at Salishan. As luck would have it, I was at that very moment less than a 2 minute drive to the Salishan Lodge, so I grabbed my camera and went on a lodge tour. The lobby, restaurant and stairs leading to the lounge are filled with huge wooden panels that were hand carved by this artist whom I found out is Leroy Setziol.
“Recognized as the “most accomplished and respected wood sculptor in the Northwest,” Roy Setziol was born in Philadel phia and grew up in cosmopolitan Buffalo. After graduating with a degree in art from Elmhurst College he married Ruth Davis in 1940. In 1941 he completed a theological degree and then worked as a minister in Bennington, New York. During WWII he served as a chaplain with the U.S. Army 43rd Infantry in the South Pacific. Soon after the war he joined his family in Portland, Oregon.
With Ruth supporting the family Roy began his career as an artist. Setziol’s art has been influenced by his experience interacting with the immigrant communities in Buffalo, the art he observed in the South Pacific, his personal interest in European art, and his experience living in the Northwest. He is a “sculptor who happens to work with wood,” in part because of the ready availability of the material in Oregon. Long admired by the architectural community, his work has been described as monumental and intimate, symbolic and abstract, geometric and organic. It is rich in color and texture with many of his pieces employing a grid system he discovered nearly 40 years ago carving a piece for the Menucha Conference Center in the Columbia Gorge. Roy has been commissioned for an extraordinary number of public pieces including those that can be seen at the Salishan Lodge, the Salem Public Library, the Child Development Center in Portland, the Chevron Building in Lagos, Nigeria, and at Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood. His sculptures are also in the collections of the Salem Art Association, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, and the Contemporary Crafts Museum and Gallery.”
From his Salem Art Association biography.
Now that I can identify Setziols work, I can easily recall having seen it before and that explains why the Frank Shell door was something that felt so familiar. See below for more photos of Setziols work and check out the Oregon Artbeat feature on the local artist from 2001.
Event – Kenneth Birkemeier Lecture – Artistry in Bricks
Birkemeier mid century home on Fremont in NE Portland
This Saturday, June 25th, 2011, is the encore presentation of the Kenneth Birkemeier lecture at the Architectural Heritage Center. I went to the first lecture last November and it was pretty fascinating, well worth the price of admission!
Details from the Architectural Heritage Center website:
The post-World War II building boom in Portland presented many opportunities for architects and builders to interpret the “modern” home. Ken Birkemeier was one such Portland builder, who designed and constructed completely original homes during this period. Though also credited with building Colonials and conventional Ranch Style houses, the Birkemeier Modern home remains his most identifiable house type. These brick (or partially brick) houses often incorporated avant-garde or whimsical features in their design and looked forward to an optimistic future filled with technological promise. Whether futuristic or conventional, the quality of construction in Birkemeier homes and his always pleasing designs have earned him legions of home-owning fans over the years. A real estate listing today with the name Birkemeier in the title always commands attention and respect.
AHC Education Committee member Jack Bookwalter will discuss the distinctive features found in all Birkemeier houses. You’ll also learn about Ken Birkemeier the man, whose remarkable career spanned the 1930s to the 1970s. Following his talk Jack will lead a short walking tour past several Birkemeier homes in NE Portland. (Transportation from the AHC not provided.)
This program is an encore of the sold-out lecture from November 2010.
Pre-registration is strongly suggested
Buy tickets here
Rummer News – Plaques and Auction
Rummer Home
There will be an auction for Rummer items beginning May 26th, 2011 through June 2nd, 2011. The auction will be in Ebay under the seller name “bobrummer”.
Items included:
- Pieces of furniture displayed in the original Rummer showcase home and used by the Rummer’s in their homes through the years
- Vintage Danish modern rosewood credenza
- Rosewood Danish modern table
- Documents and drawings signed by Bob Rummer
- Vintage Magazine Articles and Rummer Ads.
Have fun shopping!
Rummer Owners
You can now purchase the official Rummer designed home plaque customized with the year your home was built. Order on the Rummer Network website.
Frank Shell House Update
entry atrium - one of three atriums
One of the first blog posts that I wrote here on the Modern Homes Portland site was a visit to a home that was on market designed by architect Frank Shell for his personal residence. Frank and his wife lived in this house until he passed away in 2003. The Shell house was then sold, a little bit of work was done to it then it was sold again. The home then went back up on market a short time after, that listing turned into short sale, a sale never happened so it went back to the bank. During the couple of years it took the bank to take it back and re-sell it, the property ended up suffering from a bit of deferred maintenance. I lost count on how many times I have showed this house but let’s just say that I know it quite well.
During the years that the property was in short sale/bank owned limbo, the fear for most mid century architecture preservationists was that a builder would see a good deal in the land/lots for development and raze the house to build something more “profitable” since it is in a desirable, close-in SW neighborhood.
The good news: I was contacted recently by the new owner, who is a contractor, and very much enamored with the form as most of us are. He is currently working on preserving the structure and updating the systems as necessary but is making an effort to keep many of the details intact and taking care to research the architects original vision for the home.
The owner let me take a look around the other day and take a few photos while they were working, slideshow below:
I can’t wait to see what it is like when he is done and we are so happy that the Frank Shell house will be here for many more years, thank you new owner….next stop, historical register?
Original post on the Frank Shell House.
Shell House – Frank Shell Architect
Photo slideshow of the Frank Shell house vacant prior to it’s most recent purchase and renovation.
More posts on the architect Frank Shell:
Modern Events – Rummer Home Tour and Lectures
Rummer Home
There are 2 Rummer home events coming up in the next week. First, the Oak Hills Rummer tour is this Saturday. Presented by the Historic Preservation League of Oregon, the tour will include 8 Rummer built homes in Oak Hills and a presentation on mid century architecture by Jack Bookwalter mid century expert with the Architectural Heritage Center, and an interview with Robert Rummer. Buy tickets and additional information on the Oregon Historical Preservation website.
Next, Rejuvenation is holding an event that will feature a narrated slideshow of Robert Rummers work followed by a conversation with Robert Rummer himself. The event is a benefit for p:ear and there is a $10 suggested donation. Wine and hors d’oeuvres will be served along with after hours shopping at the Rejuvenation showroom.
Event details:
- Wednesday May 25, 2011 at 6pm
- Rejuvenation Showroom – 1100 SE Grand Ave PDX, OR 97214
- Wine and light refreshments served.
- $10 suggested donation to benefit p:ear
- RSVP today. Last year’s Conversation with Robert Rummer sold out fast.
RSVP NOW >
See you there!
