Hollywood
Modernist: William Haines
Originally published: Spring 2006 for POPLife magazine.
William
Haines was never supposed to be a designer. William Haines was supposed
to be the biggest actor in Hollywood and for several years, he was. He
was Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Russell Crowe: the handsome actor who got
all of the romantic leading roles and more importantly, turned massive
profits for the studio.
All Mod Condos
Originally published:
Spring 2006 for POPLife magazine.
When
Enrique Smith began looking for a place to live, he had specific
requirements: an open floor plan, clean lines and something with the
ability to adapt to his love for mid-century modern design.
Cliff
May Case Study, Part 1
Originally published: Fall 2005 for POPLife
magazine
If you can remember the
details of our last issue, you’ll recall the introductory article of
POPLife’s ongoing case study of a 1954 Rancho home designed by
architect Cliff May. If you can’t remember, I’ll get you up to
speed...
Book
Reviews
Originally published: Fall
2005/Spring 2006 for POPLife magazine.
This section contains my collective reviews on books pertaining to art,
architecture and design.
Cheers! A Mod Nod
to British Art
Originally
published: April 2, 1999 for the OC Register
He still has five solid days before his first
stateside art exhibit opens, yet Max Presneill is frantically moving
from door to door around the various art galleries and corner shops
scattered throughout the Santa Ana Artists Village as if the show were
to open this instant.
American
Goth
Originally published: March 7, 2002 in the
OC Weekly.
"I
remember being in a college photography class and being so turned-off by
the whole scene," John Pope says as he scratches his faint-orange
goatee. "It was all about the gear, and it was almost always the
guys. Who has the most expensive equipment? Who has the biggest lens? It
was phallic."
Art of Glass: Caleb
Siemon
Originally published: Jan.
26, 2001 in the OC Weekly
I first met Caleb Siemon in
January 2000 at his six-month-old studio, United Glass Blowing, a
converted car mechanic’s garage in the industrial part of Costa Mesa.
The place was filled with racks of 30- and 40-pound chunks of clear
glass that could easily be mistaken for blocks of party ice...
Mad About Glass Caleb
Siemon lands in OC.
Originally published: March/April 2000 in Angeleno Magazine
Caleb
Siemon might be the glassblower to watch out for in the year 2000,
but you'd never know it from a visit to his six-month-old Costa Mesa
studio, aptly named United Glass.
