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Post by pooka on Jan 6, 2022 2:58:33 GMT -5
I posted on the other site about a stove similar to a members Town & Country stove in an architects Frank Gehry house. I went looking at other homes he built, & ran across a 1981 house in Calabasas, CA that features a Chambers cook-top as well as a more modern stove. The place is a bit spartan & modern for my taste, but hey, it's got a Chambers, so it can't be all bad. I don't know if the cook-top is a later addition or original.
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Post by nana on Jan 6, 2022 19:15:01 GMT -5
Spartan is an understatement! And it is kind of weird to have a cooktop next to a stove. It looks like a kitchen in a barely finished institutional basement. What do the outsides of this architect’s buildings look like? I’m thinking I would not be a fan…
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Post by pooka on Jan 7, 2022 8:42:32 GMT -5
Yeah. I don't think you'd care for it. If you follow the link above the pic, I think it's a real estate listing & has nine pics. Well actually eight, & one of the view. It sort of looks unfinished. One three story box next to another one story box, with a rooftop terrace. The exterior is clad in roofing. Brown on the tall part, & grey on the short part. The two are connected by an out door staircase. It's got bare beam ceilings throughout. The ad says two bed rooms & two baths. It's got flat roofs with skylights. It's only 1,719 square feet. The Listing Price is $795,000. Probably par for the area. I get the sense it's more like a vacation house rather than a place you'd live in as a regular residence. I'm thinking the stove hood looks newer, & so does the stove, so maybe in 83 when it was built, there was no hood, & there was an oven where the stove is now. The whole interior is painted white, so the furniture & art is what sets the tone, & doesn't compete with the grand view of the valley bellow, & the mountains in the distance.
If you look at Frank Gehry's Wikipedia page, there's pics of some of his projects. A few look more conventional, but others look like they're in the process of falling down, or are twisted & warped out of shape. He doesn't seem to favor straight lines
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Post by nana on Jan 8, 2022 9:14:07 GMT -5
I checked out the links, and as I suspected, I am not a fan. Some buildings were clever in a sculptural way, but they remind me of the outfits at haute couture fashion shows: more like the designer’s expression of “look what I can do with fabric” than actual clothing people can wear and use!
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Post by pooka on Jan 9, 2022 2:21:24 GMT -5
Yeah, some artistic types, be they architects, fashion designers or artists like to put their thumb in the eye of convention, & perhaps be shocking in their style. If they're charismatic enough at selling it, we'll buy into their vision. The cutting edge of what's fashionable or acceptable is a fuzzy area. By definition, many will hate what's offered. Some will take the bait to feel progressive. Others go along to be included with the IN crowd. It's an odd collision where some are reluctant to be intellectually honest with their opinion. Personally, I try not to hate anything, but I do have my own like & dislikes, & know it's an individual thing. There's really no right or wrong style, but I guess there are some extremes that may give some of us pause where maybe we don't know what to think.
While this house it not really my thing. With some bold art & furnishings, it could be more palatable. Honestly this house is all about the view. The building is stripped of detail so as not to distract you from the vistas. The layout, amenities like the roof top terrace & skylights are cool, but give me something to anchor it to the location like stone or adobe wall. The stark boxes just seem like an alien intrusion saying "LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME". That is what Frank Gehry is famous for. They describe it as “deconstructivism” style of architecture.
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Post by nana on Jan 9, 2022 13:19:58 GMT -5
Most times the more extreme design elements of clothing get toned down for the hoi polloi if it’s something that people like the look of, but doesn’t really work in real life. I guess with a building, as long as it is structurally sound, anything goes. Someone, somewhere, will think it’s the bees knees. But as for me, I prefer balance and symmetry in a building, and if it has something like a turret or a parapet, it has to be worked into the overall balance, not stuck on like an afterthought. But to each his own!
Although some attention needs to be paid to the climate where the building is…You can go where the weather suits your clothes, like the old song says, but your house pretty much has to stay put! A lot of the early settlers here were Scotch/Irish, and they built houses like they had in Merry Old England, with no thought given to where the snow and ice would land when it came off the roof, so most of the time it was smack dab in front of the door. Even later houses like mine, long after people had some experience with the kind of winters we get here, still had issues because they were built to satisfy what was in style. My mom always remarked on it because she grew up in Bavaria, where the houses in the Alps all had the doors under the peak, not the eaves. The snow could just keep piling up, no problem!
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