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Memory Palis

There were shots of Will Rogers’s house—and more with his car, his stable, and his horse Soapsuds—and of the old Presbyterian Conference Grounds in Temescal Canyon.

Wrighters’ Room

Would Louis B. Mayer (or his accountant) have ever signed off on a design so lush, so louche, so über-Wright as this?

Broad Code

The vault abides.


Sun Day Sudday Sun Day

Offering “self-care for you and your car” and multitiered memberships, Sun Day aims to disrupt the $15 billion car wash industry through a waxy formula of millennial minimalism, inspirational branding, and venture capital.

When You Wish Upon Mylar

Near the end of the film, Ciocchetti attends a party at Bernard Judge’s Triponent House (1962), a low-key affair that nonetheless sends him into a panic attack, banging against the dome home’s transparent Mylar windows.

Echoes of Deco

All the spectacle really does seem contrived to prohibit actual shopping.

Every String Everywhere All at Once

Throughout her wondrous life, Madeline Gins tried to rewrite the rules of the ultimate game.

Carriegate

And Just Like That … I had a proposal for a New York City zoning amendment.

Come Zither

In a venue where the art often plays second fiddle to the 360-degree view, Jones’s quiet refinements don’t try to compete with other stimulations.

Great Manse Theory

George Malone was a hawk-eyed patrolman of the Holmes Electric Protective Company turned dynamite snuffer.

Is It Clocking?

Time ain’t what it used to be.

Masc Modernism

It’s the bulky geometry of a more anatomical kind, revealed on page 193, that proves especially memorable.

Nevermind the Bullocks

If you throw a coin in the Trevi fountain, you will return to Rome. If you rub the testicles of this giant steer or, more specifically, if you are photographed doing so, you will become rich.

Rem Diagram

Koolhaas writes himself into the canon of information visualization.

Squatters’ Rights

This wasn’t a luxury condo viewing, but rather an “art show celebrating insurrectionary urban development.”

Oh the Hermanity!

Life in and among towers in the park is rarely shown to be this appealing.
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