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Cory Ryan’s Pics of Den @ Tour
Viviane’s pictures in display at the Den and visitors. Photo Cory Ryan
Hip Attitude on Credenza at Wolfe Den. Photo: Cory Ryan
She shot several areas you may have not seen because we haven’t posted. The hidden bath. Photo Cory Ryan
I love this photo: Thanks Cory! You can see the rest of the shoot here. Den’s Brown [...]
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I know you’ve been dying to see the Wolfe Den and get a tour… well… this weekend is the AIA Homes tour and the Wolfe Den is one of the selected homes. MJ and many gorgeous, young, and talented docents will be available all weekend to answer your burning questions about this fabulous home that [...]
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We’re in Dwell again!
Our slideshow is in the front page of Dwell. On the print version, we are in the “Houses we Love” section. Coolness. I love, love Dwell… and they are awesome to deal with, on top of it.
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THAT is a bottle of Prado Enea Muga 1982 a Rioja Gran Reserva that we’ve had for years. We had very good reasons to open it. We just won our fifth TSA design award! It was GREAT, both the wine and the winning:-)
Thanks, Texas Society of Architects. Jurors were Philip Freelon, FAIA, president of the [...]
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FIlm and Architecture anyone?
We, us, MJ Neal, AIA and Viviane Vives, taught a graduate advanced design studio at the University of Texas, Arlington.
This video explores how the use of film as a research tool in architecture informed the students’ projects and changed them. The students achieved a completely different relationship to the site by the use of documentary [...]
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Sustainable Homes in the USA
We are proud to be in this fine book and I’m particularly happy that my pictures are getting published all over the place. I’m enjoying photography more and more, as I have been mentioning in this blog. I’m preparing an exhibition… I’ll post about it soon.
Anyway, the focus of the book is sustainability. I encourage [...]
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First Wolfe Den Night Shots
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Macho Minimalism
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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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 [...]
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32nd Street Remodel
Some spanking new sketches by MJ for a remodel of an Arts and Crafs cottage in the University area.
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Tile, Tub, Trellis (TTT’s)
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A few images from the last site visit. Alex chats as John and Mike of Living Art Austin lean on the rift cut white oak guardrail just freshly installed. Dennis has the spoon tub installed and the shower running.
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Dancing About the Mulberry Trees
in 2003 we were asked to submit ideas for an Art Forum and Community Center in Annaka, Japan… Our design was centered about the Mulberry trees we were gonna plant, hundreds of them.
See if you can spot the kids with balloons and the dog (in the sketches.)
MJ and I have gone into macrobiotics lately, we [...]
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Twin Peaks Explained
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There seems to be a few questions about Twin Peaks on Apartment Therapy. I guess we can answer them here… Yes, the central piece seems to float off the walls. It’s structure is attached to the wall by brackets. Since the houses are not big, it allows [...]
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It must be Twin Peaks month:-)
Good Life Magazine and now Apartment Therapy
A house tour by Adrienne Breaux. Fantastic article and she took a bunch of pictures, there’s a pretty comprehensive slideshow.
Wow, it’s SO great to see a good picture of that table. MJ can design furniture like nobody’s business. I keep wishing we had the [...]
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Y mas y mas, y maaaas Lobo!
I’m just getting these up with the tile and the railing in the making and MJ already has taken more pics that will be coming up, he’s a MANIAC!!!
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