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The traditional stodginess of banks would have made all this impossible 20 years ago, but U.S. corporations are now established patrons of modern art. Chase Manhattan's art-collecting president, David Rockefeller, found an eager ally in the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It was obvious from the...
Indian-Mound Garage. Big Sur is challenging country. The land is periodically shaken by earthquakes, battered by 80-m.p.h. winds; rainfall can total 72 in. in three months, and termites abound. To cope with these problems, Owings designed a kind of concrete saddle over the ridge, anchored by eight caissons...
...Owingses decided to call their new house "Wild Bird" because "we have the feeling of soaring in mid-air-airplanes often pass below the house, and red-tailed hawks are our constant visitors." Through binoculars they have seen mountain climbers tumble to the beach below, once had to call in some professional rock climbers to rescue Nat Owings' 16-year-old daughter Jennifer, who was caught at nightfall halfway up the cliff...
Mosaic Carpets. To contrast with nature's grandeur, the Owingses tried to make the interior snug and warm. The only floor coverings are the pebble floor-mosaics designed by Mrs. Owings, but art abounds in the house-paintings by Morris Graves, drawings by Buffet, a candelabra by Seymour Lipton. When someone remarked that the house, with its redwood sheathing and massive chimney, was reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright, Nat Owings, a longtime aluminum-and-glass specialist, was taken aback, finally admitted: "Wright was a master of the organic philosophy of design. Perhaps anyone who reaches toward nature, or wants...
...Owingses are concerned, their home suits them to a T. Says Owings: "This is a onetime house for the rest of the time we expect to be here on earth...