Monday, March 30, 2009

About that photo up there...

Bob Crais recently asked about the origin of the photo at the top of the blog. It's a digital photo Audry took last September of my family's summer house on Cape Cod. (Here is is again: click for a full-size version.)

Here is a 1965 photo of the house I found online. The window directly under the TV antenna is the reflective window on the right side of Audry's shot.


Oh, and that bicycle? That's MY old Sear's bike! Weird thing to come across on the internet, a photo of your old bike!

The house was designed by the famous Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer. Brueur designed the Whitney Museum and many other buildings, but he's probably most famous for his "Wassily" and "Cesca" chairs:



Click here for more about the house.
And here's another photo Audry took of the back of the main house:

2 comments:

  1. Awesome house, horribly painful looking chairs. Well, the second one doesn't look too bad i suppose.

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  2. The Wassily chair isn't as uncomfortable as it looks. The leather has a fair about of "give," so it sort of compromises to your shape.

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