Another one back on the market after a hiatus. 1979 Davidson Residence designed by architect Robert Thiele and artist James Hubbell, and hand-built by the homeowners in Alpine, CA. 2bds, 1ba, 800sqft, $750k (Zillow's est.: $741,300)
Brick wall and some steps up to the main entrance.
It's small, b/c it's not even 1,000sqft. So, you've got a very sculptural living room/kitchen combo. The fireplace is cute.
There isn't much room for seating.
You can tell that the owners weren't brick masons, but it's a free-form art piece.
Small rounded kitchen with a stained glass window and mosaic counter and backsplash.
This door opens to a small den.
It has built-in shelving.
There's room for maybe a small desk, then it steps down to an area with a mosaic floor.
You might be able to fit a chair or two, then double doors open to the yard. There's supposed to be a 2nd bedroom, but it's not shown. I doubt that it could be this small space.
Up in the loft, this seating area is part of the main bedroom. Note the way that the windows open.
Then, you walk into the bedroom and there's a wall, so it's not open to the 1st floor.
It's small. I guess that's a full size bed, but you couldn't get a Queen size in here and have much space left.
They did their best on the mosaics and it's nice, but it's not what an artist or professional tiler would do, b/c it's lumpy and uneven.
The shower/tub is sculpted.
A little peep hole for natural light.
It would be a cute summer or vacation home. The lot dimensions, according to the listing are .5 to 1 acre.
sorry im not done gatsbyposting. the nyc celebrations for its 100th anniversary are so uniquely deranged. like here you have a book that absolutely scathes new york parties & dress-up & entertainment & alcohol & careless wealthy east coast elites. and the way the city is celebrating the 100th anniversary of one of the most beautifully written & personally devastating literary tragedies this country has ever produced is by. offering 10% off gatsby-themed cocktails at luxury bars. hosting pay-to-attend 1920s themed costume balls in the wealthiest areas of midtown. setting up penthouse hotel suites to ostensibly resemble locations from the book. a few hours ago at an exclusive private event they had the cast of the glamorous broadway musical, all in designer clothes, light up the empire state building green to advertise their show where tickets cost up to $670. one of them said the green light ‘represents the beauty of the american dream.’ i think you could power all manhattan with energy generated from the rotational torque of f scott fitzgerald spinning wildly in his grave
anyhow i celebrated this international holiday by leaving work early & dressing up & driving north five and a half miserable hours to see the empire state lit up green because this was a true once in a lifetime event & this book changed my life & i wanted to celebrate a character i loved and mourned & see a glittering green light shining on the water & reach for it like dreamers do. but even though all the websites and blogs i could find told me it would be green on the 11th—that it would blaze green all night on the 11th, and i triple checked each one—by the time i got there at 8:15 pm they’d turned it off. and the parties had happened thursday night, not friday. so i ended up alone & exhausted & rain-drenched & freezing & quite frankly absolutely crying my eyes out on the shore across from the city, just fucking stupidly sobbing above the water, wishing i could go back just a little way into the past. and THATS how you do gatsby. ill kill you all
For Sappho’s Sake is now available as an ebook on Libby! If you have a library card, please consider suggesting it as a purchase to your local library. And if you don’t have a library card yet…what are you waiting for?
« A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything…. Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla. »
— Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
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