VINTAGE 1930’s PARIS FRANCE ~ AERIAL ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEW ~ ORIGINAL

Wow – check out this vintage original framed photographic print of early Paris!  Circa 1930’s Art Deco era. Massive in size with framed dimensions of almost three feet by two feet.  Photo includes Notre Dame de Paris, beautiful early Parisian architecture, vintage automotibles and vehicles, French waterways and canals, boats and more….  For more info and more pics, click the Etsy link in the right column…….>

ECO-FRIENDLY Architecture ~ Adobe Style Home Design

One of the many passive solar homes in Civano, a community conceived in the 1980’s as a living laboratory for ecological design.  Civano is a solar village near Tucson Arizona where builders and homeowners embrace energy-efficiency and agressive water conservation. 

 Link:  http://www.terrain.org/unsprawl/5/

BYWAYS Cottage Community

Excerpt from Cottage Living, January 2006

Photo by Marc Vassallo

Places I’ve lived… Texas, California, Nevada

A small sampling of some of the houses I’ve lived in over the years….

    

 

 

Just moving in – Newbury Park, California 1980-90’s

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  My grandson Austin and me on the front porch.

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The 1950’s, Sweetwater, Texas. Me in the snow making a snowball….

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My daughter and I at our first apartment in Las Vegas in the 1970’s.

 

Sweetwater, Texas 1960’s

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 My Mom and I.  Sweetwater,Texas in the 1950’s

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 Canyon Country, California

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Maralago Apartments, Desert Shores, Las Vegas, Nevada 1990’s

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THE WORLD’S COOLEST HOTEL ROOMS

 

The World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms (the Cool Hunter)

Written by one of the world’s leading trend spotters and proprietor of the widely-read Bill Tikos, The World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms opens the doors to more than fifty of the hippest, sexiest, newest, and most unusual rooms across the seven continents.  Featuring the work of today’s top architects and interior designers, this book offers diverse accommodations with one thing in common: impeccable taste with edge.

 

So wherever wanderlust may take you—from an idyllic getaway in Scotland’s remote Jura Island to the bright lights and nonstop action of Berlin—there is an amazing place to stay, and Tikos has roamed the globe to find it and the best room in the house.

…Boring is not an option.  There are rooms that fulfill rock star fantasies—complete with soundstage—and others that elevate the meaning of luxury, with sumptuously dressed daybeds in lush, secluded gardens with private pools.  Each entry provides the inspiration behind the hotel’s architecture, details the room’s special amenities, design features, and rate. Local points of interest are described as well.

 LINK - roaming the globe so you’re in the know - http://www.thecoolhunter.net/

 Kakslauttanen Hotel – Finland (click image to enlarge)

 

Book is available also at Target and at Amazon.com