by Marisa | Apr 7, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern, Places
Photo Courtesy of Thomas Hawk (CC) Pietro Belluschi is our city’s most acclaimed and accomplished architect as well as one of the great American modernists of the 20th century. Over the course of his career, Belluschi participated in the design of more than 1,000...
by Marisa | Mar 31, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
Picture sourced from Schemata Workshop The word “utopia” stems from the Greek ou-topos, meaning “no place”, but at the same time, it also refers to eu-topos, “a good place.” It was first coined by Thomas Moore in 1516, which was used to describe a fictional island...
by Marisa | Feb 18, 2020 | Client Stories, Mid Century Modern, Modern Homes
Sometimes finding the right home is not easy. My buyers were looking for a specific style of home in an area with good schools which doesn’t sound too challenging except it seems that so are a lot of other buyers. It took a few attempts at offers on homes, some that...
by Marisa | Feb 11, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
The Sea Ranch. Iconoteca dell’Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons “My own way has been to design the outward forms of nature but emphasize the results of the processes of nature…This act of...
by Marisa | Feb 6, 2020 | Atomic Living, Listing, Mid Century Modern, Modern Homes
10375 SW 42nd Ave. Portland, Oregon, 97219 Pristine mid-century design with classic Northwest Regional style features throughout. Spacious sunken living room with a soaring vaulted wood ceiling, exposed beams and a wall of windows with Mt. Hood and territorial views....
by Marisa | Jan 14, 2020 | Architectural Features, Mid Century Modern
Tilting chaise lounge by Charlotte Perriand. Photo via Flickr by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra Born in 1903 in Paris, French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand always believed that better designs create better societies. After her high school teacher noticed her...
