midmodtalk

      The Art Moderne is really taking shape and all of the little details I have been sweating are coming together one by one. The inside is just about finished and we took the first load of ‘staging’ furniture over today. Nothing brings out a house’s...

  I spent a few sleepless nights trying to envision how we could finish the edges of the cork flooring with our radius curved walls.  It’s no wonder these concrete houses were all carpeted!  But I knew some sort of permanent flooring was essential to the integrity of...

  George Nelson, one of the godfathers of American Modernism, is coined in his online bio as ‘the creator of beautiful and practical things’.  We all know and love the ball clock, bubble lamps and of course, his iconic slatted bench.  But did you know he designed...

  There is slow and steady progress at the Moderne.  Arlen and I took our youngest daughter to violin camp in Michigan last week (our ‘vacation’), while our son Trent (home from college for the summer) was busy painting the outside of the house.  Gone (almost) is the...