by Lynne Rostochil I am the least crafty person on the planet, but every holiday season I make a gallant but ultimately pathetic attempt to create something in the spirit of the season. The project may be a painted ornament or a centerpiece or even a mod gingerbread house like this one I made a […]
by Lynne Rostochil. One of the best MCM neighborhoods in all of Oklahoma is surely the gloriously mod Lortondale in Tulsa. The unique homes in this great area were designed by local architect, Donald Honn, appeared in the January 1954 issue of House + Home magazine, and ultimately won numerous design awards. He even built […]
by Lynne Rostochil. The June 1948 issue of American Home magazine features one of my very favorite OKC mid-century modern homes on the cover, the fantastic Vahlberg House in Forest Park. Here’s what the home looks like now: Pretty amazing, aye? This really is such a stunning home, one that architect Robert Vahlberg designed and […]
by Lynne Rostochil. Magazine from Lynne’s collection. Recently, I picked up the August 1971 issue of the Ford Times that features an effusive article on the Sooner State’s newest state lodges, the glitzy Fountainhead and the organic modern Arrowhead, both of which were designed by Bailey Bozalis Dickinson & Roloff and completed in 1964. […]
by Lynne Rostochil Not too long ago, we profiled the wonderful Coston House in Edmond, which was beautifully photographed by Julius Shulman soon after it was built in 1954. I thought I knew all of the publications the house appeared in until I stumbled across the Fall-Winter 1958 issue of the Home Modernizing Guide at a […]
Recently, Tim Brauer posted an article about a 1946 Frank Lloyd Wright visit to OU — perhaps his first visit, from what I can tell. Tim’s dad, architect Leslie G. Brauer, and Tulsa architect Charles Ward were photographed with Wright for the article, which is likely why this bit of yellowed ephemera has been so well […]