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Holiday Shopping Guide 2017

by Lynne Rostochil Thanksgiving is over and the frenzy of holiday shopping has begun in earnest!  If you’re still making your shopping list, here are a few gift ideas for the modern lover in your life. 1.  Give the gift of Goff This year, former Bruce Goff student and Professor Emeritus of Architecture at OU, […]

Sportsmanlike Driving

by Lynne Rostochil.   With a newly minted driver in the house, the topic of being safe behind the wheel has been at the forefront of many conversations with my teenager over the last year.  I’ve also regaled him with stories of taking driver’s ed back in the early ’80s, where I had fun using ancient […]

Books We Love: The Story of the Tower by Frank Lloyd Wright

by Lynne Rostochil There’s nothing more fun than going to someone’s book-filled house and scouring their library for interesting titles (and making a mental note to add said titles to my endless list of books to look for in the future).  Well, not too long ago, I found myself hanging out in Koby Click’s office and […]

John G. York and the York House

After posting the color photo of John York’s house in our blog about the Cole Clinic the other day, Robyn did a little research and found that she owns a book that contains several more images of his beautiful home in Harlingen, TX.  The book, Designs for Living by Katherine Morrow Ford and Thomas H. […]

Signs and Asides, Part 1

To me, there is nothing better than going out on a photography safari and stumbling upon an old sign with crazy angles and peppy typography that harkens back to the space race days when we really thought that the future was now.  You can still find a smattering of these odes to the halcyon days of yesteryear […]

Matchcover Then and Now

by Lynne Rostochil Gone are the days when you went out to eat, visited your local bank, or stopped off at a gas station for a fill up (by an attendant, of course) and could pick up a book of profusely illustrated matches and pocket them for a future smoke of your favorite cigarette, cigar, […]