handcrafted modern/limited edition prints

One more image from Handcrafted Modern that I have decided to print up as a limited edition print. A couple of friends have made a request for it but I have been thinking about it anyway. This one will be 18x24". All the better to let lost in all the stuff on Gropius' desk.

handcrafted modern/outtakes/gropius

Another out take from Walter Gropius' home. I have no idea what this piece of art is or who it is by but I want one....

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Ok...is it in poor taste to be in love with a toilet? I truly think that Walter Gropius' is the perfectly designed toilet (if there is such a thing). I love the shape and how the top is slightly smaller and then curves down. When I toured the house - long before Handcrafted Modern was even an idea in my head - I was the crazy woman on the tour who would not stop talking about how perfect this toilet was. Such is life. I stand firm in my assessment.

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Back to some outtakes from Handcrafted Modern today.
This is one of my favorite images from the Gropius house, but we went with a wider view of his daughter, Ati's, bedroom. Still, I like the quietness of this shot.

handcrafted modern/outtakes/on their bookshelves...

I have been trying to decide on which outtakes to show you all this week and I finally came to the decision to show you everyones bookshelves. I got really interested in what everyone had on their bookshelves.

Walter Gropius' was one of my favorites  because he had a bunch of books on birds of New England (seen here). Then I noticed he had two sets of binoculars on his desk. I imagined him and his wife both watching birds out their office window.

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Continuing on with the outtakes from Handcrafted Modern. This entire room at Walter Gropius' house did not make it in to the book. Just so much good stuff and not enough pages! This is the guestroom. He continues his restrained color theme - black, white, grey with red accents.

On another note, I have had a lot of firsts on these four days since the book was released. Yesterday I was interviewed in person for the first time, asked to sign my first book (and I blushed...I could feel it happen...) and Handcrafted Modern was in the NYTimes! Wow! (I hear myself saying "wow" a lot lately.) It is pretty awesome that Pilar Viladas likes my book.