Sunday, August 26, 2007

Did You Miss This?

Did You Miss This?

Today's Times magazine has a letter about a house designed by Thomas Mayne, a house now owned by Beth Harris, a house that the Times wrote about recently.

Mayne likes to incorporate “conflict” into his structures.

“He truly achieved his goal. As a former co-owner of this structure, I found that its reflective surfaces and lack of demarcation of full rooms and the Escher-like tight stairways truly made this a house of torture -- and one that certainly helped contribute to my separation from my wife.”

The letter is signed: Brent R. Harris, Irvine, Calif.