PHOTO BY MARK MENDEZ
Midcentury Modern homes are always in need of a renovation. No matter the pedigree or the recently completed project, it’s just the nature of owning a home that’s more than 60 or so years old. The modern masters knew it even then when creating these marvels. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe said, “Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.”
Thus we as stewards of these homes continue to let them slowly unfold their form. Whether in the sensitive restorations, the careful updates or the humble ways we personalize them for the way we live (and let’s be real, the maintenance), a modernist’s work is never done.
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