tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-251423462024-03-13T22:42:37.242-07:00Recentering El PuebloI'm an urbanist, in love with cities. I'm also a real estate agent in Los Angeles. My "beat" includes West Adams and environs, Midtown, the Echo Park empire, and the Northeast; most of L.A.'s oldest neighborhoods, several in transition, and many with undeserved reputations.Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.comBlogger542125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-12514934553105308132011-09-27T19:14:00.000-07:002011-09-27T19:22:00.913-07:00Blogus Defunctus<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RYEYgXLvKJg/ToKDuFqwIjI/AAAAAAAAAGk/eQQ7BnRCnwM/s1600/IMG_6229.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RYEYgXLvKJg/ToKDuFqwIjI/AAAAAAAAAGk/eQQ7BnRCnwM/s200/IMG_6229.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657228909749477938" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I took a hiatus of sorts, maybe a little tired of the writing grind, distracted by social media; and, cured of the insomnia that facilitated so many two am postings.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br />Stumping for preservation doesn't always make for joyous rallies either. Developers</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> are seldom</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> opposed by </span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vl4jBYP4MYQ/ToKETS3WjHI/AAAAAAAAAGs/AlAH3tbGN3g/s1600/IMG_6652.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vl4jBYP4MYQ/ToKETS3WjHI/AAAAAAAAAGs/AlAH3tbGN3g/s200/IMG_6652.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657229548947147890" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">indentured city council persons; and only the </span><span style="font-size:130%;">wealthiest, most resourceful </span><span style="font-size:130%;">neighborhoods are spared the threshing machine.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I'm not opposed to contemporary architecture in principle. In fact, there's a many a</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PtaS6r9uVtU/ToKCCJGeH8I/AAAAAAAAAGc/G04MQULR3DI/s1600/IMG_6880.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 146px; height: 218px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PtaS6r9uVtU/ToKCCJGeH8I/AAAAAAAAAGc/G04MQULR3DI/s200/IMG_6880.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657227055245172674" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> Corbusian crib, in Venice and environs, I admire. Still, it's enthusiasm dampening when so many folksy Tudors are obliterated for 'builders cubes.'</span>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-14921449839221075592011-04-25T19:13:00.001-07:002011-09-27T19:39:21.056-07:001759 S. Bronson Avenue<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4-npvqdoABQ/TbjQdf2TfVI/AAAAAAAAAFA/Xfzpok3G_0g/s1600/IMG_6838.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4-npvqdoABQ/TbjQdf2TfVI/AAAAAAAAAFA/Xfzpok3G_0g/s200/IMG_6838.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600455341819264338" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Airplane bungalow with "Japo-Swiss" flair in Arlington Heights</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">De Vaux Family Residence. Built and designed by Emil Gross in 1913</span><br /><br /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hIxREnSe1IQ/TbjQvZs48EI/AAAAAAAAAFI/rDIvaVpBNR8/s1600/IMG_6852.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hIxREnSe1IQ/TbjQvZs48EI/AAAAAAAAAFI/rDIvaVpBNR8/s200/IMG_6852.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600455649406808130" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Stately public rooms embellished with pristine, golden mahogany woodwork. Three bedrooms (plus study), including commodious master (18.5 X 12) with gargantuan closet (11 X 6.5), windows on three sides.<br /><br />Detached garage with second-story office/guest quarters (replete with kitchenette and bath).<br /><br /></span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-zB_5FK9co/TbjRXQe6zHI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/GccBeBtMimQ/s1600/IMG_6858.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z-zB_5FK9co/TbjRXQe6zHI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/GccBeBtMimQ/s200/IMG_6858.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600456334127058034" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Multiple systems improvements, including freshly rendered exterior (paint and stain).<br /><br />Period details, including fixtures, built-ins, oak and maple flooring.<br /><br /><br /></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3n6U4IoOTTQ/TbjSUQjDBlI/AAAAAAAAAFg/WidQaAMooNU/s1600/IMG_6860.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3n6U4IoOTTQ/TbjSUQjDBlI/AAAAAAAAAFg/WidQaAMooNU/s200/IMG_6860.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600457382116394578" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Offered as a fully cooperating pocket listing and shown by appointment<br /><br />3 beds, 2 bath; 1,947 sq. ft. (not including detached space); lot size: 6621<br /><br />Price: $650,000.00<br /><br />Thomas Guide: 633 F5<br />[Editor's note: withdrawn from market]<br /></span>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-52404667105154218712011-01-29T16:53:00.000-08:002011-09-27T19:40:17.854-07:00Spanish Revival Retreat in Wilshire Vista<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUTCaAOgiOI/AAAAAAAAAEo/p1YSZxgEQBk/s1600/IMG_6803.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUTCaAOgiOI/AAAAAAAAAEo/p1YSZxgEQBk/s400/IMG_6803.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567788791330015458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Atop a gentle rise, a masterfully re-worked Spanish Revival with contemporary scale and light-gathering capability awaits.<br /><br />Open kitchen outfitted with upscale appliances, cork flooring, and custom maple cabinetry.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUS93cJD79I/AAAAAAAAAEg/R5Hy_qU1Th8/s1600/IMG_6731.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUS93cJD79I/AAAAAAAAAEg/R5Hy_qU1Th8/s200/IMG_6731.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567783799481429970" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Sophisticated period details remain including art tile, flooring inlays, and multi-light casement windows.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Voluminous living room with barrel vault ceiling.<br /></span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUS7K89uxbI/AAAAAAAAAEI/71FKssCG0TY/s1600/IMG_6771.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUS7K89uxbI/AAAAAAAAAEI/71FKssCG0TY/s200/IMG_6771.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567780836174906802" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Spectacular master suite with two sets of french doors, ample closets, and bonus meditation space.<br /><br />One block North of a revitalized Pico Blvd. strip featuring Sky's Taco's, Pico>Modern Furnishings, Whole Body Gallery, Chic Restaurant, and Bloom Cafe, amongst others.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUS8BnEv_7I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/-BsiI0l4QNA/s1600/IMG_6756.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUS8BnEv_7I/AAAAAAAAAEQ/-BsiI0l4QNA/s200/IMG_6756.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567781775191572402" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Detached garage, well suited for office conversion or creative space.<br /><br />Sweeping system upgrades including electrical, plumbing, heating/cooling, tankless hot water.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUS9I9lZXCI/AAAAAAAAAEY/B7vPs2Tva1g/s1600/IMG_6792.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUS9I9lZXCI/AAAAAAAAAEY/B7vPs2Tva1g/s200/IMG_6792.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567783001004792866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1306 Hauser Blvd</span><br />Los Angeles, CA 90019-2521</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">2 beds + 2 baths<br />1,421 square feet (per public records)<br />Year built: 1925<br />Lot size: 5,270<br />Thomas Guide: 633-C4<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">$679,000.00</span></span><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUTDXtYugYI/AAAAAAAAAEw/WT_f4x7-61M/s1600/IMG_6748.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TUTDXtYugYI/AAAAAAAAAEw/WT_f4x7-61M/s200/IMG_6748.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5567789851424489858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Shown by appointment gladly and enthusiastically.<br />Sale is subject to lender approval; negotiated by seasoned agent. Seller has complete lender package ready.<br /><br /><br />Co-listed with Kristine Halverson of Prudential California Realty.<br /><br />More images, information available.<br />[Editor's note: sold]<br /></span>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-63767531804656602082010-08-11T14:03:00.000-07:002011-09-27T19:41:16.407-07:002158 W. 24th ST.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-041-748463.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-041-747971.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2158 W. 24th ST</span><br /><br />Does anybody remember this listing? It's baaaaccccckkkkkk! After a couple of false starts, we're finally marketing in earnest.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kinney Heights Craftsman Retreat</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-177-732897.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-177-731910.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>A broad, recessed dormer and a bold two-story bay punctuate this dynamic early Craftsman form, with generous, extended eaves and supple rafters. The delightful complexity continues inside with substantial, successive, detail-rich rooms, each with dual exposure. Dramatic interplays of volume persist on the second floor with soaring, lancet-shaped cove ceilings, and an intimate, tree top sleeping porch. Sophisticated kitchen, with pantries, recycled glass tile backsplash, and superb linoleum inlay floor, opens onto a <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-228-766762.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-228-766281.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>mature acacia tree, providing beautifully filtered ambiance, and picturesque sightline.<br /><br />An unusually generous lot size, bolstered by an exceptionally wide frontage, is made even more pronounced by a relatively small building footprint. An unrivaled, outdoor life inducing green space results. The front garden is landscaped with live oaks, toyon, coral bells, lilacs and a host of California natives and climate-suited <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-120-777452.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-120-777074.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>Mediterranean plants. Gravel mulch gives way to thick shows of wildflowers in spring. Stonework and a dry-stream bed by Pasadena firm Urban Organics capture and keep rainwater. The rear garden boasts a second arroyo, an Italian fountain, and meandering paths dividing beds stocked with apple, apricot and plum trees underplanted with roses, sage and lavender. At the rear is a raised bed for vegetables and a two-story carriage house with room for dirty play downstairs and a studio above.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-197-748088.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-197-747658.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2158 W. 24th ST 90018</span><br />3 beds, 1.5 baths<br />1,712 square feet<br />Year built: 1906<br />Lot size: 58 x 150<br />Lot Area: 8,700<br />$690,000<br />[Editor's note: sold]Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-25991430889875613162010-05-30T07:19:00.000-07:002010-05-31T13:44:30.242-07:00West Adams' Creative Canvas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TAQfVQ3UXXI/AAAAAAAAADc/YJgOtV6wC9Y/s1600/lack+007.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TAQeUgNltwI/AAAAAAAAADM/gqVQ4KEALKE/s1600/IMG_6532.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TAQeUgNltwI/AAAAAAAAADM/gqVQ4KEALKE/s200/IMG_6532.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477536384382514946" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">West Adams Heritage Association Spring Tour</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A doozy, entitled Art in Historic Places: West Adams' Creative Canvas, this year's tour showcases the work of West Adams resident artists. Ten architecturally diverse venues are on tap, including those pictured, single family homes, a 1920's fourplex, a carriage house turned studio, and an early movie theatre.</span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TAQe2SPT03I/AAAAAAAAADU/KBV5apnMrwk/s200/IMG_6533.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477536964747187058" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Featured artists include: Rob Remer, Marina Moevs, Max Miceli, Sue Ann Jewers, Jenny Hager, Steven Irwin, Tom Lazarus, Taidgh O'Neill, Tolanna, Shelly Adler, Dianne Lawrence, Art Curtis, David Pacheco, Rory Cunningham, Susan Arena, Art Tobias, Mas Ojima, Donald Ferguson, Aaron Morse, Kim Lee Kahn, and Fredric Booker.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This self-guided, drive--or bike--yourself, tour is scheduled for </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/TAQfVQ3UXXI/AAAAAAAAADc/YJgOtV6wC9Y/s200/lack+007.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5477537496954068338" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Saturday, June 5th, between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets are $30 on the day of the event, at the check-in: 1824 S. 4th Avenue (at Washington Boulevard).</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For more information, call 323-733-4223, or write tours@westadamsheritage.org; and, as always please wear shoes that won't mar hardwood surfaces.</span></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-41057774428972142552010-05-06T09:34:00.001-07:002010-05-06T09:35:19.306-07:00America's Second Most Famous Architect?<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;"><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-Lt6TP3ZwI/AAAAAAAAACs/kRm86IN9mX4/s1600/IMG_6490.JPG"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-Lt6TP3ZwI/AAAAAAAAACs/kRm86IN9mX4/s200/IMG_6490.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468194483436218114" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">In January, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) nominated ten Frank Lloyd Wright designed structures for inclusion on its list of world cultural heritage sites, an unparalleled honor. Wright is doubtlessly America's most famous architect. But who is number two?</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I surveyed ten "archiphiles," a group of architects, planners, </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-LuPVy2XRI/AAAAAAAAAC0/7zx56kMjkCs/s200/IMG_6492.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468194844897074450" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">architectural historians, and authors. Responses varied, from Canadian born Frank Gehry to Chinese born I.M. Pei, from Thomas Jefferson to modernist mad men.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The consensus number two with a whoppi</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ng two votes: Henry Hobson Richardson (or H.H. Richardson), a giant of late 19th century architecture, progenitor of the Richardsonian Romanesque Style, which loosely reinterpreted Medieval characteristics.<br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-LvG0N14WI/AAAAAAAAAC8/o0afXBeT4AM/s200/IMG_6493.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468195797956157794" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Is there another American cultural form so beholden to the legacy of a single practitioner? Who would vie for the mantle of America's greatest painter, film director, fiction writer? Miles Davis, Ansell Adams, Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth, Elvis Presley, Fred Astaire, none seem as peerless as Mr. Frank Lloyd Wright.</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>(Images are of FLW's Hollyhock House)</div></div></span></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-83204749531633056072010-05-05T16:15:00.000-07:002010-05-05T16:17:19.022-07:00No More Apologies<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-H7Vn6CbzI/AAAAAAAAACU/dydvmaYxOB4/s1600/IMG_6482.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-H7Vn6CbzI/AAAAAAAAACU/dydvmaYxOB4/s200/IMG_6482.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467927771512729394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Despite a plethora of celebrated Mexican and Salvadorean eateries, barbecue and soul food spots, the restaurant scene in West Adams has seldom been trumpeted; and, the question--oft asked is, 'Does one have to leave the neighborhood for a decent meal?'<br /></span><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;">As it happens, the previously under-served USC area is exploding with new options, including a fleet of gourmet loncheras, mostly stationed along Jefferson and Hoover. Greek, Korean-Mexican fusion, Vietnamese, pizza by the slice, and desert trucks, an ever changing roster, have enlivened these bustling corridors.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-H7hn2a3HI/AAAAAAAAACc/5YyhMLHlD3Y/s1600/IMG_6486.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-H7hn2a3HI/AAAAAAAAACc/5YyhMLHlD3Y/s200/IMG_6486.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467927977655983218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Adjacent to the events center on Figueroa, the USC hospitality folks have assumed control, replacing a tired Sizzler with a gastropup (The Lab), replete with firepits and flatscreens, added an upscale surf-n-turf (McKay's), and a pizzeria.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size:100%;">At Grand Street and 37th, Mercado La Paloma, a former warehouse, hosts six restaurants and a couple handcraft vendors, sprinkled about communal space. Amongst the food choices: noted <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-H7-LrbN8I/AAAAAAAAACk/hZc7G_rkW2g/s1600/IMG_6484.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S-H7-LrbN8I/AAAAAAAAACk/hZc7G_rkW2g/s200/IMG_6484.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467928468309882818" border="0" /></a>Peruvian-Japanese establishment Mo-Chica, and a satellite location of Westlake's legendary Yucatanean hot spot, Chicken Itza.<br /><br />A veritable restaurant row is in the making, making my response easy.<br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-79071042447070731892010-04-29T07:43:00.000-07:002010-04-29T07:51:27.613-07:00Chalet Leftovers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S9mcZ8XSOjI/AAAAAAAAACI/ar0RfUX161E/s1600/IMG_6231.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S9mcZ8XSOjI/AAAAAAAAACI/ar0RfUX161E/s320/IMG_6231.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465571592305261106" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S9mcA94rZWI/AAAAAAAAACA/vnGimk5N8VI/s1600/IMG_5741.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S9mcA94rZWI/AAAAAAAAACA/vnGimk5N8VI/s320/IMG_5741.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465571163217028450" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S9mbiYbXPJI/AAAAAAAAAB4/f9er2VoYWps/s1600/IMG_6244.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cnWlkeSeoBM/S9mbiYbXPJI/AAAAAAAAAB4/f9er2VoYWps/s320/IMG_6244.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5465570637765885074" /></a>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-84821114848960644652010-04-16T06:37:00.000-07:002010-04-17T08:04:14.137-07:00Diamonds are Forever<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4203-770348.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4203-770046.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The varied shingle idiom is amongst the defining characteristics of the late Victorian house styles. </span><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The diamond motif, possibly inspired by playing cards, appears often.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6232-770177.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A void, filled inexplicably, by a curtain of vellum.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4324-711985.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The term imbrication refers to the overlapping of shaped (patterned) tiles or shingles.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Image left features a diamond, set bindi-like, in a front facing gable.</span></span></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-30806438039972353802010-04-01T07:51:00.000-07:002010-04-06T11:03:47.987-07:00April Fools Market<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5361-719320.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6254-724540.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6254-724214.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Real estate's new Magilla Gorilla is the escrow process, longer, and more onerous. Appraisals are uncertain, rendered by out of area know nothings, loan approvals take an eternity to garner, lender demands: unceasing and often idiotic. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Not only is the 30 day escrow process a thing of the past, but even a 45 day time frame is ambitious, perhaps ill advised. Best plan on three months for an FHA deal. Delays a plenty. Need synchronized closings? Forget it, better to build in a seller rent-back.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Appraisal Story</span></span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5584-739150.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The appraiser surveyed the property, clipboard in hand, likely ignoring my neighborhood spiel.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"It's a new house," he blurted, questioningly. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"No," I responded flatly--a bit astonished, "it was built in 1898. Where are you from," I continued.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"La Canada," he volunteered, stealing a glance at his car, parked next to a hydrant.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"Have you ever been to this neighborhood before," I asked warily, "we're close to USC you know."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He hadn't, he didn't, and he tanked the value, comparing the property to others North of the freeway, apples and oranges. </span></div><div><br /></div><div>*********************************************************</div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5361-718978.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Supposedly we're safeguarding the consumer, thwarting cronyism with these new reforms, Good Faith Estimates, and the Home Valuation Code of Conduct (HVCC), which mandates an anonymous appraiser pool rather than area-experienced specialists. Frankly, I think it's bunk. Window dressing, at the consumer's expense, to mask financial mismanagement and a creative shortfall.</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-80570311230981328812010-03-19T16:41:00.000-07:002010-03-19T20:45:23.467-07:00Swiss Chalet Style (Part 2)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6139-761084.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6132-786688.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6132-786157.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Please see preceding post: Swiss Chalet Style Part 1</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Disappointingly, most of L.A.'s Chalets have been significantly altered: projecting porches enclosed, or eliminated; detailed balustrades, scroll sawn railings, lost or replaced by hollow core metal.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6171-709302.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">An outstanding model from versatile, creative architect Charles Whittlesey (image middle), and the Angelus Vista neighborhood. Whittlesey's rendition includes an extending ridge and tapered modillions.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6139-760657.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Bavarian spirit is alive and well in Adams-Normandie thanks to notched stickwork and scalloped details.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><br /></span></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-84691747996215810882010-03-18T12:22:00.000-07:002010-03-18T14:57:23.779-07:00Swiss Chalet Style (Part 1)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5657-760616.JPG"></a><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6131-750885.JPG"><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6131-750537.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Few examples of the Swiss Chalet Style exist in Los Angeles, and almost all were built during the Edwardian era. </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Two principal sub-types can be distinguished. The first (see image top) combines a low-pitched front-gabled roof, with clipped (or jerkinhead) end, deep eaves, and exposed rafters.</span><div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5351-751834.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The second (see image middle) is sited perpendicularly, and a large, elaborate masonry chimney serves as a visual centerpiece.<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tudor-like half-timbering, patterned stickwork, and a second story porch or balcony paired with substantial brackets, are also defining features. <br /></span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5657-760119.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Chalet elements were frequently applied to the pervasive Craftsman plan type. In the third image, a bungalow bears Chalet style stickwork in its gables. Note the elaborated, pendant-like, ends.</span></div><div> </div><div>Part 2 tomorrow....</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "></span></div></div></div></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-28299091398818229162010-03-17T08:49:00.000-07:002010-03-17T08:56:33.752-07:00Happy St. Patrick's Day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6082-755701.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6082-755344.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6083-760384.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6083-760024.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6081-774417.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6081-773995.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-43088496357575047282010-03-08T15:49:00.000-08:002010-03-08T17:10:16.703-08:00Irving Gill (Part 1)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4682-740267.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4679-776927.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4679-776243.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;"><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Contrary to architectural mythos, the subordination of ornament--the neue Sachlichkeit--was not first realized in Vienna or Glasgow, Berlin or Oak Park, but in the sleepy, seaside hamlet of San Diego, California, where architect Irving Gill, began practice in 1893, following a brief stint in the legendary Chicago office of Adler & Sullivan.</span><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4681-700630.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Aided by one of his early partners, William Hebbard (who also emanated from the great Chicago seed pod), and possibly influenced by an early job stabilizing the ruins of the Mission San Diego de Alcala, Gill began offering minimalist interpretations of established styles as early as the late 1890's. The improvisational Gill may have also gained from "primitivist" Frank Mead, a student of Andalusian forms, who joined the firm in 1905 and with whom Gill briefly partnered in 1907. </span> <br /></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5220-714265.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Solo by 1908, and pursuing a style without definite historical precedent, the ever inventive Gill who experimented with new materials (concrete, magnesite) and methods (thin wall, tilt-slab construction), was labeled a cubist and a secessionist by an uncomprehending press. </span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5232-710454.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That nothing so fresh was produced along the Eastern seaboard for a whole generation is a manifold cause for astonishment, though perhaps Gill was liberated by San Diego's isolation and freedom from architectural precepts. While the office building had undergone a streamlining, courtesy of the Chicago gang, Gill's brand of austerity--particularly in the domestic arena--was unprecedented.</span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5228-782464.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Irving Gill's architectural legacy is unmatched in San Diego, where the majority of his projects can be found, and where he died in 1936. Gill fostered a series of inspired disciples, largely arts and crafts geometricists, including his nephew Louis Gill, Lloyd Wright, Hazel Waterman, and Emmor Brooke Weaver.</span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4682-739531.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The San Diego Heritage Association's Annual Historic House Tour, on Saturday, March 21st, is featuring four Gill and Hebbard designs, on Balboa Park adjacent Seventh Avenue. For more information and tickets, go to www.SOHOSanDiego.org.</span></div></div></span>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-60792316989244098572010-03-06T06:58:00.001-08:002010-03-06T07:34:59.263-08:00Block Changers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6080-791693.JPG"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It's nice to be associated with architectural masterworks, bag hefty commissions, bask in reflected glory. But my greatest source of professional satisfaction is representing buyers on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">block changer</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">s, typically long neglected, tenant-occupied dwellings, spewing adverse impacts.</span><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6077-702334.JPG"><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6077-701956.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"></span><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">While it's important to shepherd the comings and goings of swans, neighborhood trajectories are altered most by the passage of ugly ducklings. Because seldom is an entire block guilty of impiety; instead, a single residence is the source of horn honking, the feral cat population, late night shenanigans.</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6080-791262.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 213px; " /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bad apples put to compost. "The Christmas House" lay vacant after evicting a deadbeat tenant, vandalized and collecting refuse. At "La Casa Azul" people slept two to a bed, and in bunks, in violation of occupancy restrictions. The yard grew wild and brown (photo is post trim). <br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Homeownership may be a right, but it's also a responsibility.</span></div></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-84032592588254465682010-03-03T02:36:00.000-08:002010-03-03T02:52:41.689-08:00Screen Savers<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5616-726666.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5616-726247.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5773-780702.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5773-780354.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6064-784794.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_6064-784391.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-69227472310311588652010-03-02T20:55:00.001-08:002010-03-03T02:23:39.612-08:00Death of a Model<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-177-779725.jpg"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/More-15th-032-713890.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/More-15th-032-713513.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>Most good listing agents have a signature touch, be it catered brokers opens, property specific web-sites, or staging preferences. I've a trade secret too: marketing images incorporating animals.<div><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/bar-removal-007-719530.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div>I've featured half a dozen dogs and cats, in backyards, amongst tall grass, splayed across the kitchen floor, balled on a comfy chair, exhibiting happiness, vulnerability; engaging.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/Green-177-779188.jpg" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div>While I've yet to outlive a client, a couple of my most irresistible subjects have passed.</div><div><br /></div><div>Here's hoping for a doggie and kittie heaven.</div></div></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-41155120883159952682010-02-26T21:49:00.000-08:002010-02-26T21:58:09.606-08:001880's/1920's/2000's<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5947-701582.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5601-770510.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5601-770050.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Times;"><div style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 3px; padding-left: 3px; width: auto; font: normal normal normal 100%/normal Georgia, serif; text-align: left; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Periods of prosperity, each with deflating finales.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The booms encouraged American weakness: love of magnitude, a penchant for land gambling, deplorable waste.</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But after the love is gone?</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The 1890's delivered a decade of unmatched eclecticism, exotic <br /></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5949-778395.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">revivals, rusticism, the Chicago School, new forms of expression, the basis of modern architecture.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In the 1930's a machine aesthetic, best exemplified by the Streamline Moderne--the continued development of those ideas first engendered in the late nineteenth century, tamped the fantasy and romance that infused America's bucolic post war period. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5947-701235.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The late 2000's? </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To Be Continued....</span></div></div></span>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-53795750593223461592010-02-17T01:48:00.000-08:002010-02-19T14:59:03.491-08:00The Awful Tower<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5612-773596.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5612-773067.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">While less tall than the U.S. Bank Tower or Aon Center, L.A. Live's 54-story hotel and condo complex nonetheless dominates sightlines, immodestly isolated on downtown's Southwestern edge.</span><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5645-763616.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The sleekly framed Q-tip mass, designed by big project poobahs Gensler, is the latest big city skyline marring "signature structure," joining the ranks of San Francisco's One Rincon.</span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5729-751784.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Checkboarded in blue tinted glass, the structure rises, exclamation point like, along the 110 freeway, defying scale, defiling scale.</span></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-75562440155357232212010-02-15T09:40:00.001-08:002010-02-15T09:45:30.652-08:00Valentine's Day<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5358-713619.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5358-713273.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5841-786147.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5841-785600.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5791-700736.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5791-700410.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-61054164883260146932010-02-06T09:00:00.000-08:002010-02-06T17:01:43.770-08:00Super Bowl XXXX Something or Other<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5919-788390.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5919-788039.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5918-772924.JPG"></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">While I've a fondness for the Colts franchise, many things Baltimorean, I'll be rooting for the New Orleans Saints. The Colts' furtive relocation to Hoosier land, and recent big game win (2006), make the 'Aints-no-more, my feel good favorites.</span><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5918-772924.JPG"><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5918-772576.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Saint franchise, christened in 1967, and playing in its first Championship game, is led by mortal-sized quarterback Drew Brees. The Colts are captained by pleasing pitchman Peyton Manning, the likely product of genetic engineering.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">While Indianapolis has been installed as the odds on choice, significant Colt injuries may be a factor.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>(Images courtesy of the writer's dog-eared sports card collection.)</div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-60060386013080998702010-02-03T16:53:00.000-08:002010-02-03T17:20:55.302-08:00Density Dogma (Part 2)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5878-796806.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5875-766845.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5875-766505.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Please see Density Dogma Part 1 (12/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">14</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">/2009)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br />Only density, charge the growth shills, can forge the new mecca: v</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ibrant, walkable communities</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, like immoderately wealthy land islands Manhattan and San Francisco. Density dendrites, linking decentralized purlieus, offer salvation, sustainability, more bakeries, a trattoria.</span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5877-701233.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But what of Maywood then, I ask, to a sea of blank faces. Maywood: California's most densely populated city. More densely populated than Santa Monica, San Jose, or San Francisco. Have the residents of Maywood forsaken the combustion engine, biking to nearby jobs, past corner close farmer's markets and keen shops, enkindled by vitalizing street life?</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Nope. </span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5878-796414.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Are basic services, life's little necessities, nicely arrayed along the main drag, East Slauson?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Necessities perhaps, but little else, and many storefronts appear lifeless or relegated to automobile uses. Recreational opportunities, meanwhile, are nearly non-existent for Maywood's 40,000 residents, limited to a pocket park and a thin strip of L.A. River badlands. Maywood hasn't a movie theatre, or performance space, gym, toy store, libreria, cookwares shop, art supply source, or athletic fields. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The ideal urban construct, apparently, requires a bit more than up-zoning. </span></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-20544456868744576512010-01-30T02:47:00.000-08:002010-01-31T11:16:07.034-08:00The Dating Game<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5894-792281.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5893-736436.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5893-736060.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Many colonial era buildings incorporated a date stone, bearing the year of finished construction.</span><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5898-710372.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dates have also been memorialized in wood, on plaques, even stained glass.</span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5894-791918.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">When I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">assume the fantasy position of Building Czar, date inscriptions will become obligatory; and, any facade changes will require notation, such as:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Built in 1914<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Re-sheathed in 1972</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Window Replacement in 2003</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps commemoration will give pause.</span></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-79177008431933280222010-01-19T22:20:00.000-08:002010-01-20T15:16:31.881-08:00Eyebrows Again?! Part 2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4511-761916.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4408-759337.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4408-758834.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Fleeing the bracing modernity of the Craftsman period, and the techno horrors of the Great War, English country/cottage revivalism--comfort housing, gained favor in the 1920's. </span><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4410-794076.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A medieval pastiche, half-timbering, prominent chimneys, irregular massing, decorative brick work, and rooflines with thatch-like characteristics were all key traits of this romantic style.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_4511-761474.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The wavy eave, or eyebrow eave (see Eyebrows Again?! 6/21/2009), a wall/roof junction with a wavy, or undulating profile, often paired with correspondingly shaped doors or windows, helped complete the illusion with a feature-softening come on.<br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25142346.post-12523769108537305672010-01-17T08:44:00.000-08:002010-01-18T16:29:56.930-08:00Acanthus<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5617-736738.JPG"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5784-758159.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5784-757834.JPG" border="0" alt="" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Acanthus, favored flora of the Mediterranean, first used as ornament by the Greeks, in the Corinthian and Composite orders, and in many subsequent eras, found favor during the Arts & Crafts period when stylized representations of nature </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "></span>dominated the decorative arts.</span> <div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5882-733178.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Not uncommonly portrayed in scrolls, and with its caulicoli exposed, alternately spiky or curly tipped, the Acanthus (aka Bear's breeches) appears often as a frieze, tempering bulk (image top).</span></div><div><br /></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "><img src="http://s93883215.onlinehome.us/adamjaneiro/uploaded_images/IMG_5617-736369.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px; " /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Some historians, who have have traced the evolution of vegetal garniture, most notably Alois Riegel, claim the acanthus motif is actually a derivation of the palmette, a ubiquitous form in classical decoration.</span></div></div>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06822768809883886933noreply@blogger.com0