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The Other Glass House

I thought I would stay on the subject of movies and post a few pics of the glass house located outside Stockholm, Sweden and featured in the movie The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo.  I did get to see this movie over the holidays and thought it was pretty good as well.
According to Curbed.com the director declined “to include the swimming pool out front, and fog obscures the view in a few scenes.  The house had been lingering on the market for the indie-film budget of $5.62M for a while, but very well may have sold since the movie was released-the listing was pulled from the Southeby’s Stockholm website just last night”.  

~images via curbed


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Vidal Sassoon : : Neutra’s Singleton House

This weekend I was able to watch Vidal Sassoon the Movie and really enjoyed it.  The movie explores the life and legacy of the most influential hairdresser in the world, whose influence far outreaches the industry he changed forever.  
 
“My whole work, beginning in the late 1950s, came from the Bauhaus,” Sassoon explains in Architectural Digest. “It was all about studying the bone structure of the face, to bring out the character. Architects have always been my heroes,” he adds.
After hearing how architecture influenced his work as a hairdresser it seems only natural that he would of course live in an architectural gem of a home (one of my favorites). In the movie there are glimpses of the famous 1959 Richard Neutra’s Singleton House that he and his wife renovated after purchasing it in 2004.  Last year Architectural Digest featured the Bel Air home in its April issue with the pictures shown above.
God, I can smell the Almond scented Shampoo and Conditioner that I used in the 80s so clearly right now.
~images via architecturaldigest.com
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WET Magazine – Gourmet Bathing and Beyond

HELLO 2012

It might be 2012, but I’m feelin’ the 80s today. Probably something to do with my 3 1/2 year old wanting to show me his break dancing moves (the Robot included)  and listening to Van Halen II, Malcolm McLaren and Sonic Youth.  I posted a cover of Wet Magazine on my Tumblr last year after finding a few issues for sale on Alan Rosenbergs Books.  They’re too good not to post more.  
WET was an avant-garde Los Angeles – based magazine that revolved around the idea of”gourmet bathing” and later evolved to “gourmet bathing andbeyond.” Its publisher andcreator was Leonard Koren,an architecture school graduate. The magazine covered cultural issues and wasknown for its innovative use of graphic art…
Over theyears, Wet began to reflect a broader expanse ofstories, capturing a kind of smart, artsy Los Angeles attitude that wasemerging at the same time as punk, but had its own distinct aesthetic.
Wet lasted 34 issues, spanning the years1976 to 1981. ~wikipedia.org


In case you didn’t know, well, now you know.
You can check out a couple issues here and here.  Do it.
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Vintage Architectural Digest

I picked this one up and a few other issues in MINT condition at the Long Beach Antique Market yesterday. They are not dated, but I think this one is from 1957 and the others around the same.  It’s so CLASSIC.  With photos from Julius Shulman, Interiors by Paul Laszlo (both commercial and residential)  Trousdale Estate homes by Paul Williams and the newly built and designed interior offices of the Capitol Records Tower in Hollywood.  Such a find!
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For Sale…

14875 McCarger Road

Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240

The Desert House, 2005. Art, architecture and environmental awareness have been forged together in Marmol-Radziner’s custom prototype for their industrially fabricated residential architecture. Recycled steel framing, highly energy-efficient glass, and solar-assisted power add an all-important, eco-friendly element to this milestone achievement. From the two-parcel, nearly 7.5 acre site on which the main house, guest house, studio and nearly 2,400 square feet of outdoor decks reside, broad panoramic vistas across the pool capture the all encompassing desert floor sweeping out to towering Mount San Jacinto and San Gorgonio. While imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, future versions of this design may, in fact, be the sincerest form of social responsibility.

~See additonal images and full listing here on architectureforsale.