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Robert Bruno

30Dec08

I received very sad and shocking news today. Robert Bruno died on the 9th December.

We were just at his wonderful house a few months back. It filled me with joy. Made me want to sit at the big window and have tea and sandwiches with him so we could talk about architecture, life, whatever.

Poetry can fill one with hope and the beauty of life and being.

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This is What I’m Talking About!

19Dec08

Check out this absolutely beautiful project. Earthy, poetic, powerful in all its rawness but elegant at the same time.

This embodies everything that inspires me from latin america.

Image from http://www.supersudaka.cl/

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First Wolfe Den Night Shots

15Dec08

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Macho Minimalism

24Nov08

The Wolfe Den is in it’s final stages. Little details are being completed like the front door handle and the landscaping is being installed. Becca of Rain Lilly Design has dubbed the front stone entry design “macho minimalism”. I really like that! I’m going to steal it;)

Enjoy, I am.

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Cal Lane’s Art at the Price Tower

06Nov08

MJ went to the Okhlahoma State University to lecture and he took the opportunity to go see the Price Tower, the only skyscraper that Frank Lloyd Wright got to build.

Cal Lane was exhibiting her exploded lace cars there, amazing stuff, not only it is beautiful art, but it is recycling too! Here’s a very interesting article on her by the NYT. I wonder if she’d let me do a short docco on her…

From Blogger Pictures

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VV is Working on These

31Oct08

… and once you open the door MJ designed for the Wolfe Den you find … Japanese angels!!! Just kidding

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La Porta

30Oct08

The Wolfe Den has a front door!

Check John, of Living Art Austin, getting his Uncle Fester on.

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Wimberly Cabin 2

28Oct08

Another design for an 816 square foot cabin in Wimberly. It also has a 480 square foot screened in porch to to take in the view and outdoors. So, light a fire and warm up some cider…

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You Don’t Know What to Get us for Christmas?

28Oct08

I’ll make it easy on you! Get a Mac!!! Our studio has always been on Macs. We own some very old ones and, yes, when Mac was dying we were going to go down with it.

Here’s an old article on Architosh about our working with Macs and we were featured on the Apple website eons ago but I don;t think you can find that link anymore… time for a new interview, Apple of my eyes guys…

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Blue Skies…

10Oct08

… over the wolfe den!

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Penalty!!! Come on, if you score, I swear I’ll…

09Oct08

Promises one will make if…

I just finished writing a few proposals (yey!!!) Thank goodness I didn’t make any promises like these:-)

These are from an Argentinian Film prodco, Peluca Films, that sent me an email today. Fantastic work!!!

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Big Foot

30Sep08

The recycled rubber floors are in at the Wolfe Den as indicated by the big foot prints of Living Arts Austin’s own Michael Kalish.

Check the stair detail that relates to the wrap around desk detail (see the post before this one).

And here’s a shot of the vanity in the master bath toilet room. Of course I had to take a couple of shots of the guest vanity again.

It’s gettng close now.

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Light for the Den

24Sep08

The recessed cove lights are burning. And a few more shots from today of that downstairs vanity and the upstairs wrap around desk.

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Let There Be Light

24Sep08

The skylight (w/insulated low E glass) at the Larkey remodel/addition is here! The light is wonderful, the trees can be seen swaying and the clouds rolling.

The existing, rusted through, fireplace has been replaced with a masonry one and the stone re-laid as close to the original funkiness as possible.

Next, some finish out action…

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