I think we can all agree that the Street of Eames tour is a welcome event. Last year’s tour featured some excellent local midcentury-modern single family homes, and on April 14 comes this year’s follow-up. Best of all, the whole thing is a fundraiser for after-school programs for homeless and low-income children at Chapman Elementary.
At least four of the six homes in this years tour are occupied by their designers, all talented architects and nice people. Two of them, Joachim Grube and Ned Vaivoda, are veteran principals from Yost Grube Hall and AIA Fellows (a kind of lifetime achievement recognition). The home of Grube (pronounced GROO-buh, I believe), a German native, is cloaked in wood, with a warm but modern feel that is the very definition of Northwest modernism. Beautiful stuff.
The home of Vaivoda, who used to be a principal at Thomson Vaivoda, is more pristine (similar […]
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