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David Hockney is gone, one for the ages. Though delightfully and joyfully productive up to the end, his early works were mesmerizing. And he could draw like a god. His early career coincided with my years as an architecture/art student, and I have been enthralled ever since. Here are some drawings (and prints) from those years, along with one of the great paintings from those years. Good bye sir, and thank you!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck77rg88gd9o

Our poolhouse is not for sale, but you have a chance to buy Villa K2, Carlo Mollino’s modernist masterpiece on Italy’s Lake Maggiore for a mere $2.2 Million!

The floating 1950s retreat retains many of the legendary Italian designer’s original interiors and custom furnishings (like the coathooks in the last photo). Mollino, who became famous for blending surrealism, engineering, and sensual Italian modernism into his work, designed the property to feel almost suspended in nature. Built in 1953 in the village of Agra in Lombardy, the current owner’s great-grandfather, Luigi Cattaneo, commissioned midcentury Italian architect Carlo Mollino to design the stone-and-timber home as a holiday retreat. In addition to being an architect, Mollino was also a bon vivant, pl***oy, skier, interior designer, furniture designer and photographer of risqué Polaroids. (Not too risqué example at the end.) One of his best-known buildings is Turin’s Teatro Regio, with voluptuous red interiors, of which he oversaw the rebuilding in the late 1960s and early ’70s, decades after a fire destroyed the original theater.

"RUSTIC AND LIVED-IN":
Check out the MY Architecture Spring Quarterly:

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