Home & Garden Roundup: 08.26.06

The Chron ate crow in the most gracious of ways on Saturday: a somewhat repetitive run of Eichler stories that pretty much constitutes an apology for Kathleen Haley's kvetch...or does it? (Mary Jo Bowling slips a not-so-subtle defense into her Eichler background story.)

EICHLER UPDATE REMODEL: Helping a midcentury classic fit a 21st century style of living: A British family moves into a Palo Alto Eichler and hires SF's Baum Thornley Architects to remodel it in a way that honors the original plan. Mary Jo Bowling included their thoughts on how the open floor plan and indoor/outdoor space flow impacts the way they relate to one another.

EICHLER UPDATE / PRESERVATION: Saving the Eichler aesthetic: Bowling interviews other Eichler owners whose renovations hew to the prescient modernism of Eichler's originals.

JOSEPH EICHLER: Developer who made a difference: Bowling explains Eicher's legacy...and defends Unhappy with Eichler.

Life's goodness in one red pot: A treasured Le Creuset survives Katrina.

High season for heirloom apples, pears: Sophia Markoulakis includes some Bay Area orchard history in this piece on growing late summer varieties of apples and pears.

Comments (1)

I love the Le Creuset story. A set of Le Creuset from J.C. Penny's was one of my first "grown-up" purchases. It was basically a starter set; eight pieces for $250 (cheap!), but they look just just like the ones that retail at that price for one pan.

I can understand how to her it is "not just a pot", but a comfort piece that means so much more.