Pasadena Showcase House of Design 2024: Step Inside the English Tudor Revival Manse

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• Thomas Douglas Stimson
• NYC firefighter, 36, dies of heart attack after being fired to pay for migrants — leaving his family with nothing
• Stimson, Thomas Douglas and Achsah J. Spencer, House, University Park, Los Angeles, CA (1890-
• Designation as historic building
• Pickfair
• Kamala Harris to make personal visit to her Los Angeles home this weekend, first trip to area since inauguration

This home, as the architects envisioned it, would be entered from the road by crossing a bridge connected to a door just below its roofline. Once inside, owners and guests are presented visually with views of the home’s soaring four stories, a deck at each level, and the forest and lake beyond. Stimson House is a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Built in 1891, it was the home of lumber and banking millionaire Thomas Douglas Stimson.

Thomas Douglas Stimson

As is typical of Meier buildings, the house is completely white made with reinforced concrete and glass except for two steel pipes that extend from the chimney up to the roof, framing views at the entry level. This flamboyant essay in the usually more sedate Richardsonian Romaneque Style was erected for a Michigan-based lumberman, T.D. One of the city's most expensive residences when built (costing about $150,000), the Stimson House was designed by Carroll H. Brown, a notable, young architect working in Los Angeles, CA, during the 1880s-1910s. Brown also designed a large commercial office building for Stimson in Downtown Los Angeles at about the same time. Meier furnished the home with furniture designed by Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and himself, and when completed it needed no ornamentation other than the nature it was designed around.

NYC firefighter, 36, dies of heart attack after being fired to pay for migrants — leaving his family with nothing

A brick-walled patio became a party-ready outdoor kitchen and dining area thanks to Douglas R. Sanicola of Outdoor Elegance. Sanicola and Monique Wood installed Caesarstone countertops fabricated by Carlito’s Way Stone to create a functional space for outdoor entertaining. Designer Mark Hermogeno paid tribute to Silver Queen Susanna Bransford Emery-Holmes in the kitchen, butler’s pantry, family room, powder room, and mudroom. “We had thought, What if she actually came back to life and asked us to remodel the space?

Stimson, Thomas Douglas and Achsah J. Spencer, House, University Park, Los Angeles, CA (1890-

Nods to Pasadena’s famous peacocks can be found throughout the designs, and many creators fearlessly brought in statement floors, enveloped their spaces with jewel tones, and added texture to ceilings. Others focused on bringing the beauty of the estate’s gardens and views inside with verdant murals, floral fabrics, and nature-inspired lighting. Due to its location, Meier layered four floors and anchored the house into the hill.

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Designation as historic building

Notably, when Stimson registered to vote in Los Angeles County in 1892, he gave his occupation as “farmer,” rather than something like “capitalist,” so he apparently preferred to keep a lower profile in his efforts in local real estate. However, his stay in the city was short and Stimson died on 31 January 1898 at age 69. Quickly, Stimson built an empire with ample supplies of spruce, fir and redwood forests in Washington, Oregon and northern California. The Stimson Lumber Company was under the day-to-day management of some of his sons, so Thomas lived in Chicago and then, in 1890, relocated to Los Angeles, perhaps for health reasons, as so many others did.

Biden, the oldest-ever US president at 81, made the blunder as he ripped his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, 77, in front of the star-studded crowd. Designer Ashleigh Miranda focused on juxtaposing technology and earthy elements in her moody media room. “I really wanted to showcase state-of-the-art technology but in a way that was grounded and spoke to our primitive nature.” Cutting-edge tech from Bang & Olufsen, Lutron, and JoshAI is balanced by curvaceous seating and unique art. Bursts of hot pink and apple green energize Steven Cordrey’s design for the home’s veranda.

Kamala Harris to make personal visit to her Los Angeles home this weekend, first trip to area since inauguration

Presidential and vice-presidential visits to Los Angeles often result in traffic tie-ups as the Secret Service and local law enforcement block off roads to provide secure motorcade access. Although the former U.S. senator primarily lived in the Bay Area prior to last year's election, she and Emhoff maintained a home in Brentwood. Harris has no public events on her schedule during the three-day visit, according to a statement from the Office of the Vice President. LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff are expected to visit their Los Angeles home this weekend, returning for the first time since she took office. Their design for the Douglas House, bright white and freestanding, simultaneously contrasts and complements the deep green of the surrounding forest, as well as the sapphire blue of Lake Michigan.

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Douglas Honnold (August 17, 1901 – March 14, 1974) was an award-winning Canadian-born American architect. He designed many residential properties and commercial buildings in Los Angeles, California. He won an Honor Award from the Southern California Chapter of the American Institute of Architects in January 1947 for his design of the Embassy Shop in Beverly Hills alongside architect John Lautner.

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“It was one of my favorite rooms in the house because it was the one that had the most history preserved, and I wanted to really celebrate that,” she told AD PRO. For her Foyer of Enchantment, Scheff installed a custom mural by Hattas Art Studios, a John Richard chandelier dripping with glass leaves, a silk wall covering by Aux Abris, and organic furniture created with Amorph Studio. “I wanted you to feel like you were transported to another time and place,” Scheff says.

The bedrooms were designed small and cabin-like, intimate for their private function. The layers of the floors are read on the exterior through these window mullions, and the interior public and private zones can also be determined depending on the number and sizes of the windows. Designed by Carroll H. Brown, the nearly 13,000 square foot Romanesque style mansion, including a distinctive tower, was finished in 1891, shortly after Stimson moved to Los Angeles, allegedly at a cost of well in excess of $125,000. Taking the natural surroundings into consideration during the construction, the house was positioned to remove as few trees as possible. Architect Carroll H. Brown to build his three-story, 30-room Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in what is now the University Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in 1890. It is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Hand-beaded light fixtures illuminate the seating areas, which feature tables and chairs from Janus et Cie’s Amalfi Coast outdoor collection. Visitors are greeted by a soothing waterscape and garden by Chad Morrill of California Waterscapes, Inc. Below, tour the inspiring rooms and outdoor spaces of the 2024 Pasadena Showcase House of Design. But the design is also deeply rooted in the modern idiom, which informed its initial parti, or organizational decisions. Pickfair featured a collection of early 18th-century English and French period furniture, decorative arts and antiques. The Pickfair art collection was wide and varied and included paintings by Philip Mercier, Guillaume Seignac, George Romney, and Paul de Longpré.

The glamorous touches continue in the ensuite bath, where Sabatella added a custom mirror-tiled tub that plays off the vintage French tile floor. As one of the country’s oldest house and garden tours, the Pasadena Showcase House of Design benefits the Pasadena Showcase House for the Arts, an all-volunteer organization that contributes to arts and music nonprofits in Southern California. The event draws more than 25,000 guests each year and offers several dining spaces, including Roe Japanese Fusion, the Tudor Rose Bistro, and Wattle & Daub Tavern.

Designer Lara Hovanessian packed plenty of bold design elements into the powder room and adjacent lounge. A moody House of Hackney floral wall covering lines the dressing area, which leads to a powder room accented with a Kelly Wearstler’s Graffito II from Walnut Wallpaper. A black-and-white triangular mosaic tile floor by Artistic Tile from Mission Tile West puts a contemporary twist on the classic checkered pattern. Where the Smith House proceeded upward, the Douglas House falls away in a cinematic promenade.

I’m completely wiped out.’ I had to tell him, ‘Donald, I’m sorry, I can’t help you,'” Biden quipped. The fundraiser was held in the backyard of the A-listers’ riverfront home, where about 100 people sat under a tent to listen to Douglas and Biden speak, according to a pool report. The president was in Syracuse prior to the fundraiser, touting $6 billion in subsidies given to semiconductor manufacturer Micron through the CHIPS Act. Government offices in Irvington, including the town court and library, closed at 1 p.m. Westchester County officials closed about a 2-mile stretch of Route 9, from Tarrytown to Irvington, ahead of the 81-year-old president’s appearance at the high-dollar fundraiser.

Cozy Stylish Chic Creative Director Jeanne K. Chung and designers Angela Lee and Caroline Meloche brightened the dark wood-paneled library to create a space where residents can unplug. “Our two main goals were to create a space that was comfortable and a little bit updated while also retaining that history and not touching or harming all the really cool features that were innate to the room and came with the house,” Meloche says. Wallpaper was added to the ceiling and the backs of the bookcases, and heavy wood blinds were replaced with soft draperies and Roman shades to make the space feel lighter. The firm used a mix of fabrics and wall coverings by Ralph Lauren Home from Designers Guild throughout the space. “I really feel like the dining room is a forgotten room,” says the designer, who set out to prove how vital the space is to a home.