Comments on: Beach Condo Decornucopia

By: Emerald63

Emerald63 — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 20:48:27 +0000

@TJF: Greetings! Thanks for the suggestion. I did google, but found only the same photos from the Redfin listing that was linked above. A link is provided for every post here, just under the various "share" buttons beneath the last photo. Also thanks for letting us know the place had been Larry Hagman's. I always did like him, even if I loathed the most famous character he played. But then, that was the point, wasn't it?

By: TJF

TJF — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:43:39 +0000

If you google you will find the rest of the photos on the internet.

Larry Hagman played JR on the long-running series DALLAS and recently, upon his passing, his condo went up for sale.

I remember seeing it, I think, on Curbed or in the Wall Street Journal or somewhere. There are a lot more photos, too if you google.

By: Anodean

Anodean — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 17:10:36 +0000

I am always grateful to come here and be educated. :D

By: Paradox

Paradox — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 06:11:45 +0000

@Emerald63:
Multiple parallel layers of identical reinforced concrete surfaces, both horizontal and vertical; repeated identical mass-produced, drop-in shapes (windows particularly), minimised trim and decoration (though pure Bauhaus would have had next to none of it) which is also mass-produced and in uniform repetition; essentially a case where the shapes and textures of standardised industrial production necessary to the building of the place are also the primary architectural elements.

This would be in contrast to, say, the shingled dome we looked at here…
http://looneylisting.com/2014/05/20/make-your-home-in-a-dome/
… where each of those shingles, though undoubtedly split by machine, are nevertheless different from all the rest, and were hand-applied according to the skill of the roofer on the job. There is very little of the design or the appearance of this dome home that is identical to any other building… :-)

The dome home is turned out according to the psychology of the designers and builders, and the structure is adapted according to its usage by the occupants.

The condo is turned out according to the economic strictures of mass production and demands the occupants adapt to it, and not the other way around.

The Bauhaus movement itself had plenty of high-falutin’ rationalizations for the path it took, but the reality driving it was that the only way to quickly repair the enormous infrastructure damage from WW1 was via speedy assemblage of mass produced standardized elements.

By: Emerald63

Emerald63 — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 22:15:29 +0000

@Paradox: What is it you see about the space that's Bauhaus-ey?

By: Paradox

Paradox — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 05:35:52 +0000

One gets the distinct impression that the wooden furniture indicates a life-or-death battle between the psyche of the owner and the more-or less “generic Bauhaus”-ey architecture of the condo.

By: Emerald63

Emerald63 — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:56:48 +0000

Yup, that view can make up for all sorts of stuff. :D Although the color coordinated comforter in Pic 15, perfectly pastel rainbow hued to go with the perfectly pastel sunset, is pretty cool.