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The New York Times: 08.29.08

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The New York Times posted a slideshow over the weekend of this house designed by artist Roy McMakin. McMakin is responsible for the oversize typewriter eraser, ampersand and concrete benches in Seattle's Olympic Scuplture Park, and the house he designed for k.d. lang's personal manager is no less an installation art piece.
 
 
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The Vashon Island home typifies McMakin's obsession with "blurring the lines between art and architecture," as articulated by New York Times contributor Pilar Viledas.

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The article and accompanying slideshow are an excellent read.

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Don't like it at all on the outside---not even as a country house. I would not call it designed!

posted by poptart on 2008-09-03 14:49:18
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Brrrr..... Gives a whole new meaning to "chill out". Very univiting.

posted by peachpie on 2008-09-03 14:57:48
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There's something Tim Burton-ish about this house - for me not a good thing. I did like the wrap-around-corner windows though...

posted by Novabass on 2008-09-03 15:25:01
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Looks like Early American House Poor. They clearly broke the bank on the house and lot, but didn't have anything left for the furniture.

posted by hejiranyc on 2008-09-03 16:05:48
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The typewriter eraser is by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen.

posted by mizrobot on 2008-09-03 16:30:39
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