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Caren Motika and Adam McPherson bring healing arts to the LA community with the space, Window of the Sky

root — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 03:06:13 +0000

Their humble residence was originally conceived as a test model: Built by a man who made a successful career as a carpenter in Los Angeles (he went on to design and build Barbra Streisand’s mythic Malibu compound), the house was an opportunity to explore new ideas and techniques with wood. He believed in the idea

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Jay Nelson

root — Tue, 12 May 2015 23:30:10 +0000

They bought the building with friends and Jay tore his apartment down to the studs and rebuilt it, mostly by himself. Little details like the porthole window that peeks into the back garden are immediately recognizable as his touch. It’s out behind the building where you fully step into Jay’s world – through a solarium

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Strings of Life: Frank Rittwagen

root — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 23:03:21 +0000

It is a craft of skill, dedication and patience – delicate work, a process of construction, dismantling and reconstruction, that must be achieved before meeting the standards of a professional player or the instrument’s maker. Enter Berlin-based luthier, Frank Rittwagen. Born and raised near Stuttgart, he comments that although he has the “usual post-war childhood,”

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