Mies/Farnsworth House
An interesting video on the Mies Farnsworth House. Part one: Part two: Part three:
New Boston Mag Post
There is a new post up at Boston Mag. But I feel my unedited version of these colorful listing descriptions is better than what ended up posted there, so here is the unedited: As we gear up for the spring market, I offer you my latest choice selections of favorite prose from the remarks section...
Mad Men and Mid-Century Modernism
From my most recent post for Boston Magazine: My business partner and I have been asked by docomomo’s New England chapter to make a presentation to its members next week regarding the marketing and selling of New England’s mid-century modern houses. This is an area that I have specialized in, setting up the popularModernMass.com blog in 2007...
Selling Residential Modernism docomomo-US/New England
Monday, March 12 6 – 8p.m. BSA 290 Congress Street Boston, MA,: docomomo-US/New England presents Bill Janovitz and John Tse of Hammond Residential Real Estate, Lexington, MA, who will speak about their work in educating buyers and sellers about Modernism in the Boston region. Please RSVP to RWalsh@VHB.com and marie@artifactre.com by 12 p.m., Friday March 9, if you plan to attend....
ModernMass (and other stuff) on Pinterest
You can follow me on Pinterest. I am mostly posting cool mod houses and other mid-century items there.
Spring Brings Inventory
Sorry the site has been so quiet lately. Winter is generally a dead time in real estate around here. However, the buyers are out early and all indications are that it is going to be a very busy spring. There are multiple offers on a Peacock Farm house that just came on at $699,000. We (Bill and...
New Boston Magazine Post
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: All real estate is local. I’m part of the local brokerage Hammond Residential Real Estate, which spends a lot of time culling through and interpreting data in Boston (the “micro-environment”) as well as the spokes emanating from the city. With this in mind, I will explore some...
Lincoln Hilltop Stunner
I had the pleasure today to finally visit this listing atop Tabor Hill Road in Lincoln. Tabor Hill is a cul-de-sac of Henry Hoover-designed and other modernist homes, culminating at the top of the road with buena vistas out over the reservoir, Route 2, Lexington and the Boston skyline beyond. This siting of this renovated...
Lincoln Hilltop Stunner
I had the pleasure today to finally visit this listing atop Tabor Hill Road in Lincoln. Tabor Hill is a cul-de-sac of Henry Hoover-designed and other modernist homes, culminating at the top of the road with buena vistas out over the reservoir, Route 2, Lexington and the Boston skyline beyond. This siting of this renovated...
AD 20/21
Omnibus Sectional sofa by Vladimir Kagan, from Machine Age, and exhibitor at AD 20/21 AD 20/21 Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries & The Boston Print Fair will be returning to the Cyclorama, at the Boston Center for the Arts for it’s 5th year March 15-18, 2012. Building on the success of...
Dieter Rams
A piece here on the SFMOMA retrospective of the work of designer Dieter Rams. It is fun tracing the lineage of good, clean, modern industrial design from Apple, to Polaroid (we just sold the house of an erstwhile Polaroid designer), to Braun, and Bang & Olufsen.
