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innovative architects…

How to Napoleon-proof your home:
convert a Martello tower

Owner and designer Duncan Jackson worked with Piercy Conner Architects

to make this ancient defense tower into a home of the 21st century.

Twelve-foot-thick walls enclose what is now a contemporary home

with light tubes that bring daylighting into the depths of the spaces.

Transforming such a formidable building into a livable home was no easy task.

 

The hard work of these designers was recognized with

Britain’s prestigious RIBA award in 2010

VitA

…weird to see myself painted

Federico Castelluccio

Vita (2006)

Oil on canvas, 72” x 85”

Commissioned by Christine E. Lynn
for the benefit of the Boca Raton Community Hospital

these are a few of my favorite things…

Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Dutch, 1894
Oil on canvas

A procession of women and children descending marble stairs carry and wear brightly colored flowers. Cheering spectators fill the windows and roof of a classical building. Lawrence Alma Tadema here represented the Victorian custom of sending children into the country to collect flowers on the morning of May 1, or May Day, but placed the scene in ancient Rome. In this way, he suggested the festival’s great antiquity through architectural details, dress, sculpture, and even the musical instruments based on Roman originals.

Adolphe William Bouguereau
French, about 1880
Oil on canvas

A young nude woman sits with her arms outstretched, pushing away a winged boy. He is Cupid, the god of love, holding up an arrow to pierce her. The title suggests that the young woman is trying to defend herself, yet she smiles and struggles unconvincingly against the mischievous little god.