by Marisa | Apr 16, 2020 | Architectural Features, contemporary modern, Uncategorized
Ben Waechter is the principal architect, designer and founder of Waechter Architecture (W.A.) in Portland, OR. The firm has completed a variety of projects in the Pacific Northwest – from commercial buildings, hospitality to residential, both single-family as...
by Marisa | Apr 10, 2020 | Architectural Features, Art
You’re likely reading this from your living room as you shelter-in-place to help decrease the spread of COVID-19. First of all, thank you for doing your part to flatten the curve! Secondly, by this point, you’ve run through your top picks of Netflix series...
by Marisa | Apr 7, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern, Places
Pietro Belluschi is our city’s most acclaimed and accomplished architect as well as one of the great American modernists of the 20th century. Over the course of his career, Belluschi participated in the design of more than 1,000 buildings, in the Pacific Northwest and...
by Marisa | Mar 31, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
The word “utopia” stems from the Greek ou-topos, meaning “no place”, but at the same time, it also refers to eu-topos, “a good place.” It was first coined by Thomas Moore in 1516, which was used to describe a fictional island society in Greece. The origins of the word...
by Marisa | Mar 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Pacific Northwest was a veritable hotbed of midcentury design in the 20th century. Architects, sculptors and artists alike left their mark not only on the region but on the world of design. And you may not know it, but you’ve been passing some of these...
by Marisa | Mar 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
“Cover Picture courtesy of The Cultural Landscape Foundation” Thomas Dolliver Church, also known by Tommy, was a renowned and innovative 20th-century landscape architect. He is nationally recognized as one of the pioneer landscape designers of Modernism in...
by Marisa | Feb 18, 2020 | Client Stories, Mid Century Modern, Modern Homes
Sometimes finding the right home is not easy. My buyers were looking for a specific style of home in an area with good schools which doesn’t sound too challenging except it seems that so are a lot of other buyers. It took a few attempts at offers on homes, some that...
by Marisa | Feb 11, 2020 | Architectural Features, Atomic Living, Mid Century Modern
“My own way has been to design the outward forms of nature but emphasize the results of the processes of nature…This act of transmuting the experience of the natural landscape into a human-made experience is, for me, the essence of the art of landscape...
by Marisa | Feb 6, 2020 | Atomic Living, Listing, Mid Century Modern, Modern Homes
10375 SW 42nd Ave. Portland, Oregon, 97219 Pristine mid-century design with classic Northwest Regional style features throughout. Spacious sunken living room with a soaring vaulted wood ceiling, exposed beams and a wall of windows with Mt. Hood and territorial views....
by Marisa | Jan 14, 2020 | Architectural Features, Mid Century Modern
Born in 1903 in Paris, French architect and designer Charlotte Perriand always believed that better designs create better societies. After her high school teacher noticed her talent in drawing and with her mom’s encouragement, Charlotte studied at the École de...
