In our bi-weekly dose of Eichler humor, the inimitable cartoonist Brian Narelle holds forth on one of the drawbacks to those big windows here in earthquake country.
The one-time disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright forged a design philosophy that valued low-footprint building and resource conservation, an antithesis to Wright's Broadacre plan and Eichler's suburban sprawl.
Two Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes languish on the market in Marin and Contra Costa counties. Their prices have been slashed but even in this hot real estate market nobody's biting. That's because buying a Frank Lloyd Wright means buying into an unending project.
A remodel featured in the Palo Alto Weekly provides a great example of how one can amplify the built-in elements of an Eichler, such as the indoor-outdoor feel, to make it even more Eichler-like.
The San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design announced more than a year ago that it had found a permanent home in the American Industrial Center, a former can factory that still looms on Third Street in Dogpatch. But it's taken a while to complete the move. Finally, though, the museum has a hard opening date.
While researching a story on home tiki bars, people kept talking about their happy childhood tiki memories. But as the grand tiki palaces of yore fade away, where can you take a kid to tiki today?
The artist known as Shag revisits an old Style Channel video, in which he shows us his tiki colleciton, flea market scores, and homemade lounge furniture.
Behind the scenes with the master furniture makers of Berkeley Mills, whose new Masaya chair is both handsome and ergonomic. Turns out building a midcentury-modern rocking chair is a lot trickier than you might think.
Carved to look like a paused VCR or glitchy digital photo, a piece of wooden furniture blurs the line between digital and real life. Kind of like Eichlers blur the line between man-made space and the outside world. Trippy!
