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Edith Johnson / February 18, 2012 7:00 am
Architect James Meyer updates a 1950s classic for life in the new millennium
Architect James Meyer approached redesigning his clients’ midcentury, single family residence on Hermosa View Drive in Hermosa Beach with an eye toward unveiling its original beauty, while adapting it to meet the twenty-first-century needs of its residents.
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Edith Johnson / February 16, 2012 11:59 am
Less than half a decade shy of its centennial, the Vanderlip Ranch House – also called the Old Ranch Cottage –remains richly saturated in the eclectic design aesthetic of its original owners and their descendants.
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Edith Johnson / December 15, 2011 6:17 pm
“What could be better than to sit in a glass-enclosed space looking at the sunset every night and then looking out at the moon?”
Floating elegantly over its sloping, corner lot in Manhattan Beach’s hill section, the Greco residence masterfully combines Modernist design rigor with quintessential California cool.
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Chelsea Sektnan / December 7, 2011 12:17 pm
History will soon come full circle to the Redondo Beach pier after council members and waterfront stakeholders announced Tuesday morning that the new, vintage-inspired waterfront revitalization plan will soon be implemented.
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Mark McDermott / November 20, 2011 2:56 pm
Architect Peter DeMaria’s home in Manhattan’s tree section is more quietly daring than his famed Container House
On Pine Avenue in Manhattan Beach is the house that two brothers named Michelangelo and Luciano built.
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Neely Swanson / November 11, 2011 4:35 pm
He understood function, they understood form, and she understood color. He was the concept, she was the artist, and together Charles and Ray Eames formed the very definition of conceptual artist.
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Edith Johnson / October 14, 2011 7:05 am
Nothing remains from the original property on 32nd Place in Manhattan Beach where the Montgomery Wright residence now stands save a doorknob and a palm tree.
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Mark McDermott / December 30, 2010 6:13 pm
Modernism arrives in the South Bay
In decades past, the South Bay was known more for its utter lack of architectural significance than for anything actually built here.