My presentation “Modern Women: Trailblazers in Mid-Twentieth Century Mosaic” for the British Association of Modern Mosaic (BAMM) is now on YouTube. At the Annual Forum 2017 held in October at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, I presented work from...
Mosaics were hitting a new stride in America by the mid-nineteen fifties. Many architectural firms were employing craftsmen and artisans to deliver large scale mosaic installations for their modernist buildings. In Los Angeles for example, Millard Sheets was covering...
I live in a 1963 Eichler home designed by Claude Oakland. These modernist suburban residences are known for open floor plans featuring plenty of glass sliding doors and atriums, and the indoor-outdoor feel makes living with nature, well, natural. The home makes a...