Posts Tagged ‘living’

BARROOM BLITZ

May 14, 2008

Where else is there to go when you have your own in-home bar?

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Apartments like the airy, two-story, three bedroom unit just off Retro Row rented by Susan Janz and Jennifer Celio can at once leave you feeling overwhelmed and pissed. Overwhelmed, because you realize this is but one of our city’s legion [...]

PURE FIXATION

May 7, 2008

A meticulously-restored Bixby Knolls mid-century modern gets found in the details

PHOTO by EILEEN PUGH
It was as if they were restoring a killer 1954 Cadillac Coupe deVille. Virtually every metal component was pulled apart and hand-dipped in liquid alloy, the carpet was stripped and replaced to look exactly the same and anything worn was sanded clean [...]

RINGSIDE

April 9, 2008

The Petersons’ penthouse loft was once ground zero for white-collar boxers

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
Nine years ago, developer Dan Peterson was in the hydraulics business—setting cities up with heavy equipment to repair things like trash trucks—when he found himself irresistibly drawn to the Insurance Exchange building at Broadway and the Promenade.
He’d never, ever redeveloped a building [...]

 

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