Excellent post on Pierre Koenig's Case Study House #21
Hoss. (I meant to tell you earlier but I kept getting sidetracked)
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One thing (among many) I was curious about was that hilltop you see in the distance with the top leveled off. Do you think someone was preparing to build on it? (they saved the tree)
The same hilltop can be seen out the bedroom window.
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In another of the photographs there's a large water tank visible on a different hill.
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Color view into the bathroom.
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I've been trying to figure out what the 'chrome-orb-thingy' is that's in the hallway. (behind the cactus plants)
Is it a rather uninspired decorative fountain or something more utilitarian like a sump-pump? -halfway kidding
If you look closely, the bottom of the rectangular pool is slanted.....from very shallow to deep at the other end.
Oh my, I just now noticed that spray of water hitting the wall. -so this really
is a fountain!?
The modernity of the house...the shallow pools surrounding it ...and that strange hallway 'fountain'
made me think of the home with the ridiculous fish fountain in Jacques Tati's
'Mon Uncle'.
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