Papercutter

Lakewood Shores condos, Lakewood, California, 1978. Photographed by Julius Shulman, © J. Paul Getty Trust.

Yosemite Falls

View from the East River ferry, Manhattan New York City

06.2017 Hamburg

Duomo of Pisa and its Leaning Tower

Kawagoe, Japan 2026

Claude Cortinovis inked one paper, "She" (2010), and the MR10 chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (ca. 1927).

cora solmar

Golden Gate

1954 … Arnez, Ball house - Palm springs by James Vaughan

Skylights and clerestories have been as important in modern architecture as that of the past of course, and not just in religious buildings. Every one of Frank Loyd Wright's buildings utilized light as a powerful aesthetic and emotive factor. Yet another of my favorite architecture pairs are the buildings Wright designed for Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr., the president of Johnson Wax, in Racine, Wisconson, not far north of Chicago. The Johnson Wax offices and research tower utilized miles of glass tubing to create a glowing translucent enclosure that peaks out through the lilypad concrete columns and curving brick forms. (Wright designed the offoice furniture, too.) Then Mr Johnson's home, Wingspread, spirals out from the spectacular domed living room, ringed by clerestories, which Wright called a "wigwam." A marvelous pair of buildings that seem almost to be in perpetual motion, bathed in light.

Modern decor and design

Culver City of all places. August 2025.

Art Deco Ingrid perfume bottle made of malachite glass by Riedel Glassworks, depicting a figure beneath a waterfall, Bohemia, Czech Republic, 1930s.