Posts from — October 2009

I’ve been aching to get these sofas for a long time now but they are very rare. I finally ran into one but they were being sold for 5,000 dollars. The one above was being sold at Palm Springs for a more reasonable price but including the side table it was actually too big for my place. Hopefully I can make a promise to myself to get one in the future.

Source: 01. 02

I’ve been looking for this Eames Era modern lamp called Laurel / UFO mushroom lamp for a while, but it’s hard to find a one in good condition with decent price.

These lamps are definitely modern classics. The one on the right corner is now available on ebay for $195.00.  It still has 4 days left. I’m not sure if I should bid on this or not……..

Source: Flickr 01, 02, 03

This is a mobile art that I’m hanging in my living room. I love the poppy colors and abstract form.

You can find some beautiful mobile art from this site.

“Tomado is a hugely successful Dutch metal wall shelving system in the 50s/ 60s. You could choose between red, yellow, gray, blue and black standard shelves, plus quite some intricate variations. A functional, affordable and exciting household statement, reflecting the joyous new era of consumer prosperity and technological progress. You screwed it on your wall, and created an instant Mondrian in your home.”

I found this rare wood version on ebay, and it came all the way from Netherlands recently. I also got these color system to display my catherineholm. I will post it once I finish mounting it on the wall.

Source: Atom-A, Apartment Therapy, design addict

Without further ado, here are the remaining homes of the MAK Tour.  The house pictured above is the Hansen House (Harwell Harris, 1950-51) which has an amazing patio facing the Silver Lake Reservoir. The owner of this house was very influenced by Asian aesthetics. We even had to take off our shoes before entering the house. One notable feature of the house was that it had beautiful landscaping done in the back courtyard which contained a small waterfall and some bamboos.

Moore House (Craig Ellewood, 1964) This house is located in a quiet neighborhood below Griffith Park. The layout of the house was very linear where each room followed another vertically. This gave it the ability for more natural lighting coming into every room. The owner of the home had many original George Nelson furniture including the sofa and the bench.

Schrage House (Raphael Soriano, 1951) Raphael Soriano built this house for this original owner who still lives here for about 30 years. When we visited the house, the owner kindly welcomed us to explain some details about the house. He bought the house for about approximately 280,000 in 1978 and he still kept his receipt! He told us that the placed an additional screen door outside the patio because of their cats. Here we find another cat lover who owns an MCM home! The owner of this home was also a locomotive aficionado, and his backyard had a beautiful miniature train track complete with tunnels and a small waterfall.

Avenel Housing Cooperative (Gregory Ain, 1946-48) The tour was ended up with these amazing cooperatives that was commissioned by a collective of WWII veterans as an option to typical suburban living.(source) This complex contained a total of 10 units but we only got a chance to see inside 4 of the units where mostly architects reside. It was really fun to see how each owner decorated their homes differently. I had good time to see the small details:)

The only house we’re missing is the How House because they didn’t allow photographs. Since the tour was self driven, there were many times where we got lost. Most of the homes were also on narrow hills so they were very difficult to get to. But overall, it was worth the effort to see these homes. I definitely recommend for those of you who are interested to see them next year.

You can see more pictures of this MAK tour 2009 : Modernfinding’s flickr