Beware of the dandy. He has a cold heart and a cold hand, like the iceberg that sank the Titanic. He could kill to have his necktie on right. Jean Cocteau, the French poet-of-all-trades, had his character Orpheus say: “My friends,

In 2011, I was invited to participate in the design of a house for a skateboarder in Malibu, California. The client, a former world champion pro skater turned business owner, wanted to create a house where one could skateboard on

Paul Revere Williams was born in Los Angeles in 1894 and was a resident of the city his entire life until his death in 1980.  As the first African-American member of the American Institute of Architects (inducted in 1923), Williams