Friday Finds // Rose Seidler House

As part of our one year wedding anniversary celebrations my thoughtful husband surprised me on our way to Sydney with a visit to Rose Seidler House. 

This is my type of House. I was coveting the Mid Century Furniture and wondering if anyone would notice if we carried eight 'Eames' dinning chairs out to our car...they would look fantastic around our dinning table.

Found on Historic Houses Trust

The house is only small but the full height glass windows in each room and the open plan make it feel so spacious. One of the finest examples of mid-century modern domestic architecture, the house contains a collection of original furniture by important post-war designers Eames, Saarinen and Hardoy.

Rose Seidler House was the first commission for internationally renowned architect Harry Seidler. It was built in 1948-50 for his parents Rose and Max, who lived there until 1967. The house retains a close relationship with two neighbouring Seidler houses on part of the original 2.6 hectare family estate of natural bushland overlooking the Ku-ring-gai National Park.

Definitely worth a look if you are in the Wahroonga area on a Sunday. 

Thanks Luke for being a great listener. 

Friday Finds // N.E.E.T. HOMES: MANDI JOHNSON

Here is my Friday Find this week from N.E.E.T Magazine, i couldn't resist sharing this lovely home with you.

"...Mandi Johnson – paper designer, Etsy vintage shop owner and interior design student – shares a home with her brother, Matt Graber, a graphic designer, in the Akron area of Ohio. Their home reflects their creative eye, with great quality furniture, subtle pops of color and vintage poster wall art..."

John Lautner // A Single Man

I have been a little sick this week. While i was off work one day resting, i watched the Tom Ford film 'A Single Man'. A visually stunning film starring Colin Firth & Julianne Moore.

'While Firth is unquestionably the heart of the movie, and Julianne Moore is his most visible co-star, a supporting-role nod must go to the mid-century modern house in which Firth's character, a college professor grieving for his deceased love in early-1960s Los Angeles, spends much of "A Single Man."

The movie is the directorial debut by legendary fashion designer Tom Ford, who clearly has an eye for visual detail. From the immaculately tailored Kennedy-era suits George (Firth) wears to the vintage Mercedes he drives, "A Single Man" is a visual delight, which provides a fanciful ballast against the movie's morose subject matter.'

George's home is supposed to be in Santa Monica near the ocean, but the real house, designed by architect John Lautner, is nestled in the Whiting Woods area of Glendale northeast of the city. 

'Lautner (1911-94) was one of America's foremost 20th-century architects, particularly when it comes to the legacy of Southern California modernism. He spent six years as an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright, joining the first group of Taliesin Fellows. In 1937 he supervised construction for two of Wright's projects, afterward establishing his own practice in Los Angeles. Lautner's first solo project was a house for his own family, which architectural critic Henry-Russell Hitchcock called "the best house by an architect under 30 in the United States." Later Hitchcock remarked that "Lautner's work could stand comparison with that of his master."'

Lautner is one of my favourite Architects and i highly reccomend the docuumentary 'Infinite Space' which showcases a few of his standout designs.