Articles for March 6th, 2008
Gregorius Pineo
Go to Walter Lee Culp today - if you’re not a designer, grab your closest decorator friend and check out the installation of the new Gregorius Pineo furniture. It is exquisite, and if you’re a furniture junkie like me, you have to touch it - you can also read a little history of it in the March DHome magazine. The finishes are beautifully hand-rubbed and complex, and the iron forging techniques are something I’ve never seen. You have to see this chest in person with it’s warm, deep finish and the drawers wrapped in lacquered rope. It’s expensive, but everything is handmade - hand carved, forged and finished in Los Angeles. And, that isn’t China, folks. There is a difference - check it out.
Re: Another Day, Another Teardown
Otherwise known as, another one bites the dust. On my weekend walk, my friend and I checked this house out - yes, we were trespassing, someday I’m going to be arrested. I always thought it was a fairly new house, (until we climbed through the fence and saw the circa 1930’s kitchen), with some unfortunate proportion issues - the arched colonnade is too wide for the house, but, I thought, easily fixable. Too late. What you don’t know is that the ceiling of the porch was frescoed in a delightful design, and the wooden corbels were all hand carved. All the eaves were painted a serene kind of blue underneath, probably to seem cool in the hot summer. There were numerous leaded glass windows, including an intricate stained glass window with the image of a scribe. I won’t go into a rant, (I’ve been silenced), but, please, don’t build your new home to the edge of the lot.
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