Enjoy our gallery of fascinating stories designed to enrich your mid-century modern lifestyle

WILD AT HEART
Doggone right -- glass houses make happier
homes for the pets we love and pamper

MID-CENTURY BREAKTHROUGH
When a meeting of classical and jazz in the 1950s sparked controversy and an era of new exploration

MAGAZINE WITH A MISSION
Arts & Architecture -- infused by John Entenza
-- was about much more than Case Study houses

TOO ALLURING TO FAIL?
Values of modern homes fell with the housing
crash -- but their appeal still stands strong

LAUGHING STOCK OF THE MID-CENTURY
Crazy, cutting-edge comedians who made America
a safer place to improvise, analyze and criticize

SOUL SEARCHING
Fire-ravaged architectural photographer Leland
Lee, 91, longs to keep alive a four-decade legacy

ART IMITATES LIFE
Passionate Artists and the Mid-Century
Modern Architecture that Inspires Them

MOOD TO BE WOOED
Beyond candlelight and cocktails -- classic crooners
of the mid-century who enhance romance for a song

ONE VOICE, TWIN PALMS
Hollywood and desert lore distinguish the legend
of croon king Frank Sinatra's original desert digs

SHAG'S WORLD
Where bottomless cocktails and hedonic cool get
served up with mid-century style and optimism

BOHEMIA BY THE BAY
Looking back on the Beat Generation: creative,
non-conformist spirits of the mid-century era

STAR-STUDDED PERFORMANCE
Ultra-modern SoCal home has an encore
behind Hollywood movie legend Gary Cooper

SHIMMERING NOSTALGIA
The aluminum Xmas tree: your modern
home's ultimate cool yule centerpiece

BEYOND FLASH & FANTASY
Visionary architect John Lautner and his
'keeping it real' approach to architecture

FROM RUSSIA WITH MODERNISM
Born nearly a century ago, the enchanting and
misunderstood theremin is still ahead of its time

HELLO, COOL WORLD
Hard-edge painter reconnects his modern art
with classic artifacts of mid-century California

HOME-RUN PURSUITS
An ambitious breed of California creatives finds
modern residences ideal, natural workplaces

ESQUIVEL IN ORBIT
Lounge music legend Juan Esquivel transported
easy listening to strange, wonderful destinations

BURIED TREASURES
Mysterious time capsules -- returning from deep
sleep to evoke the 'now' for future generations

STEEL IDEAL
Meet 12 California classics -- are these the
Golden State's finest modern steel houses?

FALLING FOR A FUTURO
A tenacious California architect takes on the
restoration of his out-of-this-world dream home

PREFABULOUS OR FAD?
Designers and builders of prefabricated homes
go modern and green -- but what lies ahead?

BOSSA NOVA: MUSIC OF MODERN LOVE
Reaching back to the 1960s to the cool, sultry
sound that riveted Brazil and seduced the world

LISTEN TO THE COOL
Uprising at the dawn of mid-century modern
-- California's 'cool school' of West Coast jazz

ON THE ROAD AGAIN
With a renaissance underway, broken-down
travel trailers return to reclaim modernist roots

LET'S HAVE A PARTY
Your home looks ready -- but do you have the
nitty-gritty ingredients for a swinging soiree?

EAST MEETS WEST
Four Eichler households find some inner peace
being at home with the Asian-Japanese aesthetic