Showing posts with label pipe dream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pipe dream. Show all posts
(I love this chair. It was just hanging out...)
Next is my favorite residential building in San Francisco. If I could choose to live anywhere in the Bay Area, it would be here. This Streamline Deco masterpiece was featured prominently in the 1947 Humphrey Bogart film " Dark Passage." On the facades of this building are three large silver relief-friezes. The friezes are stunning; the first showing California as a beautiful woman under a rainbow. The next frieze shows a European settler bravely exploring the Bay in a majestic old world sailboat. The third frieze depicts a stylized man, holding the world in his hand, stepping over the bay bridge with airplanes sailing above his head. I really love the prominent usage of airplanes as a design feature in the friezes, to indicate man's progress and ambition., and the exciting advances in technology bringing man out of the old world and into a life of leisure and luxury! Architect: Irvin Goldstine, 1937
Maybe if I just close my eyes and imagine buying the penthouse, currently for sale, I will find a way. Ommm...
I have to post a few pics of the interior of the penthouse. They are from the listing agents website...
Anyone have a cool $1,500,000 burning a hole in your pocket?
Sometimes I dream about what it would be like if I had a chance today to buy a property. What would I live in if I had the choice to pick anything? I guess that would be Villa Savoye.
This is the wee house. They are a set of modular home building blocks like legos. I like this small single studio. I would need a HUGGGGEEEE barn just outside of the frame to fill with my chair collection but I think that I could get down like this... This winter photo reminds me of home too, so I had to post it. Maybe someone will buy me this and me and my sister can both live in modern modular style...Here's the link to Weehouse's website.
I think really though, this will probably be a few years off. I am too young for such opulence. Here is something that I stumbled across that would be a pretty sweet other choice, at least until I am able to afford my Parisian modernist estate.
I just have to put one more picture of my dream home's dream tub...
"It was totally configurable in software and we had 16 stage envelope generators for both frequency and amplitude, so it was kind of like the grandfather of the Yamaha DX7. On ours, you could build your own algorithms, using any of all of the 64 oscillators in any position in the algorithm. If you wanted additive, you could add 16 of them together. The phase modulation was similar to what Casio did with their CZ series. You could designate any tuning you wanted and save it. You could split the keyboard, stack sounds, model different parts of the keyboard for different parts of the sound, and save that as an entity - the kind of things that are common now." The ADS 200 featured "Additive synthesis, phase modulation, frequency modulation, nested phase and frequency modulation, and combinations of all modes." says inventor Tim Ryan.
...and only two were ever made. Whoever is lucky enough to have the opportunity to touch this fascinating piece of electronic music history is very lucky.
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