Arroyo Monthly September 2009 by Southland Publishing

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11 EARTHLY DESIGN 8 THIEF OF ARTS It may not be easy being green, but it’s certainly cutting edge in the hands of Pasadena product designer Mark Hannah. –By Carl Kozlowski

11 FLOCKING TO ROCK ROW Buyers snap up sleek new Eagle Rock townhomes that may be L.A. County’s first to be LEED-certified –By Ilsa Setziol

16 UPDATING A TREASURE Barton Phelps designs a seamless office addition to an award-winning Buff & Hensman home in the San Gabriel foothills. –By Katie Klapper

37 BUFF & HENSMAN Pasadena’s architects of the California dream were meticulous craftsmen. Now their surviving partner, Dennis Smith, helps return their homes to their original splendor. –By Michael Cervin

41 DREAMS FOR SALE Memories and musings at the Rose Bowl Flea Market –By Nancy Spiller

DEPARTMENTS 7 FESTIVITIES Pasadena Weekly and Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center

47 THE LIST Carol Channing, Lisa See, Lionel Richie and the Jonas Brothers 50 KITCHEN CONFESSIONS Kids who eat breakfast are smarter, nicer and better able to fend off Funyuns.

ABOUT THE COVER: A Buff & Hensman terrace by Tommy Ewasko

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EDITOR’S NOTE

GREEN DESIGN CERTAINLY ISN’T NEWS — AND THANK goodness for that. Still, the environmental movement, such as it is, is constantly putting out new shoots and sprouts. Take Thief, an unusual design showroom in Old Pasadena. Nearly everything Thief produces — from furniture to motorcycles — is repurposed from existing materials to avoid waste. Indeed, owner and designer Mark Hannah says design is an important front in the campaign for a greener planet. “Designers are fighting the battle between right and wrong all the time, between correct designs that enlighten people for the better and things designed poorly just to make a quick buck,” he told Carl Kozlowski, who introduces Thief in this issue. Restoring and expanding architectural treasures — which Pasadena valued long before some of its neighbors on the tear-down Westside — is another way design can be planet-friendly. Katie Klapper takes you on a tour of an award-winning Buff & Hensman home in the San Gabriel foothills, for which architect Barton Phelps designed an office suite that meshes seamlessly with the original building. As Michael Cervin notes in his profile of the Pasadena-based firm they founded, Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman were early environmentalists, designing homes with more efficient heating and cooling systems in response to the energy crisis of the 1970s. Of course, Pasadena’s hub of urban recycling has long been the Rose Bowl Flea Market. Nancy Spiller, an artist and author of Entertaining Disasters: A Novel (With Recipes) (Counterpoint: Jan. 2009), has spent many hours there in search of treasures that deserve another day. She offers a fresh interpretation of a local icon in a delightful portfolio of illustrations and prose poems. It must be a sign that green is edging closer to the mainstream when a new residential development in Eagle Rock, which may become L.A. County’s first to be LEED-certified, sells out before construction is even completed. Ilsa Setziol, a former environmental reporter for KPCC-FM (89.3) who celebrates the outdoors in her blog ramblingla.blogspot.com, introduces us to Rock Row — and a lifestyle that’s sure to help define the future. — Irene Lacher

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EDITOR IN CHIEF Irene Lacher PRODUCTION MANAGER Yvonne Guerrero ART DIRECTOR Joel Vendette JUNIOR DESIGNER Evelyn Duenas WEB DESIGNER Carla Marroquin COPY EDITOR John Seeley STAFF WRITER Carl Kozlowski CONTRIBUTORS Karen Apostolina, Leslie Bilderback, Michael Burr, Michael Cervin, André Coleman, Caroline Cushing, Mandalit del Barco, Patt Diroll, Gary Dretzka, Lynne Heffley, Katie Klapper, Bettijane Levine, Jana Monji, Arlene Schindler, Ilsa Setziol, Kirk Silsbee, John Sollenberger, Nancy Spiller PHOTOGRAPHERS Johnny Buzzerio, Teri Lyn Fisher, Gabriel Goldberg, C.M. Hardt, Melissa Valladares ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Dina Stegon ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES Fred Bankston, Dana Bonner, Carolyn Johansen, Lauren Kirshner, Leslie Lamm, Alison Standish ADVERTISING DESIGNER Carla Marroquin VP OF FINANCE Michael Nagami HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER Andrea Baker

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FESTIVITIES

Pasadena Weekly celebrated its 25th anniversary with a rousing ’80s-themed public party on the Pasadena Civic Auditorium plaza on July 30. The event, co-hosted by the Pasadena Convention Center and the new Pasadena Entertainment events company, drew 1,200 guests — some sporting vertical hairdos, shoulder pads and ripped clothing — who hailed the decade of the weekly’s birth by dancing to ’80s hits performed by the Spazmatics. Pasadena Weekly/ Arroyo Monthly Publisher Jon Guynn, Pasadena Convention 3

Center CEO Michael Ross and Pasadena Entertainment owner André Vener welcomed the crowd of newspaper readers, friends and current and former employees, who included Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard, Southland Publishing President Bruce Bolkin, public television’s Huell Howser and Pasadena Star-News Public Editor Larry Wilson, an alum of the weekly. The evening kicked off with a pre-party reception at redwhite + bluezz. Pasadena Weekly is Arroyo Monthly’s sister publication in the Southland Publishing group.

1. Mayor Bill Bogaard, Jon Guynn, Huell Howser and Mike Ross 2. Larry Wilson and Kevin Uhrich PHOTOS: By Hillary Chen and Tom Queally (Pasadena Weekly) and courtesy of Glendale Memorial Hospital

3. PW’s Leslie Lamm and Bruce Bolkin 4. André Vener 5. The crowd 6. A Pasadena trifecta: Planning & Development Director Richard Bruckner, former City Manager Cynthia Kurtz and Chamber of Commerce President Paul Little Background: The Spazmatics

Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center honored Marcia Ray Breast Center volunteer and 20-year cancer survivor Susan Stanton on July 30. Stanton received the Donald Bogdon, M.D., Award for distinction in the fight 2

against cancer at the 13th annual Cancer Survivor Celebration on the hospital’s grounds.

1. Center staffers Sona Kirakosian and Monica Flores

The event’s theme was “Fiesta de la Vida (Festival of Life),” and more than 100 guests

2. Back row: Joy and Craig Stanton; front row: Drew, Sadie, Gene and Susan Stanton

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3. Center staffers Adela Iraheta and Heidy Ortiz

and performances by a Spanish guitarist and flamenco dancer. Maryann Robertson, the breast center’s administrative supervisor, chaired the event committee.

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Thief of Arts

IT MAY NOT BE EASY BEING GREEN, BUT IT’S CERTAINLY CUTTING EDGE IN THE HANDS OF PRODUCT DESIGNER MARK HANNAH.

BY CARL KOZLOWSKI 8

A two-inch sign and a house slogan aren’t the only curiosities at Thief, a highly unusual design showroom in the heart of Old Pasadena. Thief’s owner and designer, Mark Hannah, sells stylish furnishings, wearables, rideables and artwork,

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all created from repurposed materials. And with his five-year-old company, he hopes to radically reinvent what consumers consider “new” goods. Hannah’s slogan is “Thief it,” which he hopes will someday be as popular as Nike’s ubiquitous “Just Do It.” Why Thief it?” he writes on his Web site, thiefit.com. “It is an answer to a question. Next time somebody asks you what to do with an object that would otherwise be thrown away, tell them to Thief It. Create a unique object or product that is your own and save it from the future, which would probably have been a big hole in the ground and, depending on its composition, a very, very long time decaying.” Hannah, 39, designs clever variations on traditional American products, such as a wall clock wryly emblazoned with the letters in “stop watching” instead of numbers and planters made from empty paint cans, even motorcycles made from reclaimed parts. The highlight of the collection is what he calls the Turn Series — furniture built from reclaimed hardwood flooring, recycled metals and plastics, which can be transformed into a variety of objects: desks, tables, sculptures and benches suitable for just about everywhere, from living rooms to offices and playgrounds.

The pieces are composed of hollow, undulating wooden slats that resemble tank tracks. Turn the Turn table one way, and its flat surface serves as a desk. Flip it over, and its dipped surface serves as a recliner. Stand it up, and it can be a sculpture. The same goes for the metal versions, which can either serve as a three-seat bench or a table, depending on which you way you turn them. Thief starts with either reclaimed pine, maple or oak from its own collection, sustainable bamboo or materials provided by its customers, and then turns them into Turn objects at a family-run wood-and-metal-working shop in Hannah’s hometown of Grants Pass, Oregon. The series, which was included in the Pasadena Museum of California Art Design Biennial in 2007, is Thief ’s most popular and lucrative line, ranging in price from $400 to $2,500. Hannah says the Turn Series evolved serendipitously. “I was forced to create an object for a very small space I was living in, so I wanted to focus on manipulating an object that could be used for many purposes,” the trim, steely-gazed designer recently explained at his Pasadena showroom. “I made a table, lounge chair and sculpture that could be pushed off to the side to create the most space, and I love kinetic sculpture because it can move around and turn into different things. It’s great for those who need lots of space, and I also like to create objects you can interact with.” More important, the furniture, which reduces waste, is planet-friendly. Yet Hannah, who opened the showroom in 2006, doesn’t identify with the green mainstream. “Green is just a color,” he said. “It’s not really meaningful the way

we usually hear about it. People think if you recycle or drive a Prius, you’re green. Those are good actions, but they constitute what I call a green mold — fitting into what popular belief and industry is telling them is green.” And that doesn’t go far enough, in Hannah’s view. He believes that a green lifestyle should be all-encompassing, guiding consumers’ choices from the sustainable ethanol they buy for their high-mileage cars to homes built from recycled materials and reclaimed wood. “I’m trying to encourage people to take products and create a second use for them, no matter what the project is, from clothes to water bottles to wood floors,” he said. “I make very simple designs with an eye toward making a very powerful statement, whether with cigarettes or Turn tables. You have to do it instead of just saying, ‘I’m green.’ A lot of what we do in society amounts to lip service.” His father, former electronics technician Terry Hannah, says Mark was raised to be aware of his impact on the planet. “I’ve always been kind of a real stickler for recycling and, as a family living in Oregon, we were conscious of the environment in particular,” he said. As a student in industrial design at Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design, Hannah took part in work programs in both interior and exterior design at the Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Motors in Michigan. He later parlayed that experience into designing Web sites for a global branding firm and a marketing company, as well as other products for the Walt Disney Co. and Columbia Pictures. Thief sprang out of a job he did in Pasadena. “There was a local business that I was working with that decided not to pay me for copyrighted work,” Hannah recalled. “I had developed T-shirt designs for this company, and they had licensed this stuff out and didn’t want to pay me any part of the licensing

10 fees. So I started Thief, and I put the name Thief on all those T-shirts. It was a tongue-in-cheek joke to that person, but to the rest of the world, it was a new T- shirt company. It evolved into recycling shirts from whatever company I thought could be doing a better job in their designs. And if you put your own twist on an existing product, then you too could ‘thief it.’” Hannah’s most intriguing creations with a message may be his Kiss My Butts boxes — painted cigarette packages, which he encourages smokers to fill with used butts and send to consumer response centers. “We say if you use the cigarettes, fine, but participate in environmental action by mailing the butts in a stamped package we provide to the manufacturer, for them to take care of the trash,” Hannah said. “Cigarettes are one of the worst trash sources on the planet, with billions littering the planet anywhere people live.” Indeed, in Hannah’s world view, even everyday objects speak volumes. “There’s a statement being made when someone asks, ‘Why would you use a coffee pot for a planter?’” he said. “It’s a conversation piece, and a very important conversa11 tion at that. I say you bought it, you Pictured: use it; take responsibility instead 1 & 2: Turn table, $2,500 of throwing it down in a big hole 3. Cube, $500 4. Trash plant, not for sale in the ground.” AM 5. Kiss My Butt packages, $10

Thief is located at 47 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Visit thiefit.com or call (626) 831-7894.

6. Skateboard bracelets, $10 7. The Plug stool, price upon request 8.-10. T-shirts, $20-$35 11. Clock, $50

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Thief of Arts

IT MAY NOT BE EASY BEING GREEN, BUT IT’S CERTAINLY CUTTING EDGE IN THE HANDS OF PRODUCT DESIGNER MARK HANNAH.

BY CARL KOZLOWSKI 8

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Thief is located at 47 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. Visit thiefit.com or call (626) 831-7894.

6. Skateboard bracelets, $10 7. The Plug stool, price upon request 8.-10. T-shirts, $20-$35 11. Clock, $50

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BUYERS SNAP UP HOMES IN A SLEEK NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN EAGLE ROCK THAT MAY BE L.A. COUNTY’S FIRST TO ATTAIN LEED CERTIFICATION — THE GOLD STANDARD FOR GREEN BUILDINGS. BY ILSA SETZIOL

EARLIER THIS YEAR, RETIRED TEACHER KAREN MCKAY AND HER HUSBAND JOHN WERE SEARCHING THE ONLINE REAL ESTATE SERVICE REDFIN FOR A HOME IN THE PASADENA AREA. NOTHING STOOD OUT. “A LOT OF THE PLACES WERE 1920S BUNGALOWS,” SAYS MCKAY. “THEY WERE CUTE BUT REQUIRED SOMEONE YOUNGER AND MORE ENERGETIC TO KEEP THEM UP.” PLENTY OF CONDOMINIUMS WERE LISTED, BUT THE MCKAYS DIDN’T WANT TO DEAL WITH A HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATION.

Then they read about Rock Row — 15 new homes squeezed together on half an acre on Yosemite Drive in Eagle Rock. The individual parcels were tiny — only five inches separate the residences — but buyers would own their lots. There were no shared walls and no potentially contentious homeowners’association. Plus, the project was in the vanguard of environmentally friendly construction. “We didn’t know that —CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 ARROYO ~ SEPTEMBER 2009 ~ 11

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ROCKING EAGLE ROCK: Kevin Wronske and his sustainable townhouse interiors —CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

worked for the prominent late architect George Yu and the Museum of Contemporary Art before striking out on his own. The homes look a bit boxy on the outside, the result of packing 1,300-to1,600-square feet of living space (plus decks and a garage) onto lots averaging 1,500 square feet. Inside the spaces are light-filled and open, with 10-foot ceilings. For graphic designer Dyna Kau, the contemporary look was a welcome refuge from the faux facades of most new homes. “This was cool design that didn’t have run-of-the-mill aesthetics,” she says. “It looked relevant in today’s design world.” The golden-brown bamboo flooring is strand woven, a manufacturing process that makes it twice as durable as a standard bamboo floor, according to Wronske. The appliances are super-efficient Bosch models, and the taps flow low. Several of the homes are topped with a low-growing garden, known as a green roof. LEED buildings are generally considered healthier not just for the planet, but for people too. Rock Row’s painted walls don’t emit chemicals (volatile organic compounds [VOCs]), shelving units are free of formaldehyde and tailpipe fumes are fanned out of the garage. Wronske says the project wasn’t easy to pull together. “I had a terrible time securing some of the materials for the project,” he says. “Some of the more common items — no-VOC paint, tankless water heaters — weren’t too bad, but when I was ordering specific finish materials, it became very tricky to find what I wanted.” He also struggled to secure subcontractors who would guarantee work meeting the more rigorous standards of the Home Energy Rating System (HERS). The Heyday Partnership estimates that environmentally

friendly upgrades added about five percent to the project’s cost (not counting the add-on solar panels). Despite its noble goals, the company wasn’t encouraged by the City of Los Angeles. When Rock Row was launched two and a half years ago, the planning department did not provide incentives, guidance or resources for green construction. Since then, L.A. Council President Eric Garcetti and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have made sustainable projects a priority. An ordinance passed last year requires all new developments larger than 50 units or 50,000 square feet to meet LEED standards. There are also incentives for smaller projects. Garcetti says, “We’ve worked to establish a system to expedite permits for projects that meet certain LEED standards and to offer financial incentives for high-efficiency appliances and fixtures.” It was too late for Rock Row, but Heyday’s future projects will benefit. Wronske expects them all to be green. Rock Row has faced other hurdles as well. Heyday had wanted to address some environmentalists’ concerns that new buildings capture and recycle water to help cope with the region’s declining water supply. Rock Row is slated to include a permeable driveway that allows rain to trickle through droughttolerant turf instead of sweeping pollution into waterways. But the developers found storing rainwater or reusing greywater — the mostly clean stuff that

flows out of showers, sinks and washing machines — to be too expensive and bulky. Ted Bardacke, senior program associate of the environmental group Global Green USA, sympathizes with the developer. “You have to have a place to store the water,” he says. “To find space for storage tanks is not easy. We also need in L.A. to build at very dense units per acre. That’s an environmental virtue, too.” The first group of homeowners is expected to move into Rock Row this month. Dyna Kau is one of them. “I’m so excited,” she says. “It’s my first home. I wanted it to be perfect, and it will be. It’s a very smart and environmentally conscious design.” AM

PHOTOS AND RENDERINGS: By Ilsa Setziol and courtesy of the Heyday Partnership

people were building like this,” McKay says of the dual-flush toilets, doublepane windows, low-water landscaping and more. The McKays consider themselves lucky to have found Rock Row in time. Priced around $500,000, the homes sold out within a month. If the project holds up to rigorous third-party inspections, it could become the first multihome development in Los Angeles to earn a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating, the gold standard for green buildings. The two- and three-story Rock Row homes are energy misers. Every possible hole or crack has been insulated or sealed and checked by specialized inspectors. The vinyl windows are glazed with a reflective coating that screens out radiant heat; a layer of aluminum in the roofing also keeps interiors cool. Most of the homes will draw at least half their power from solar panels on the roofs. The project designer, 32-year-old Kevin Wronske, says he didn’t set out to be a green architect. Sustainable design wasn’t emphasized at the Southern California Institute of Architecture when he studied there in the late ’90s. But by the time he and his developer brother, Hardy, formed an Eagle Rock–based partnership called Heyday in 2001, they felt it was a responsibility they had to take on. “The position we’re in as developers — where we’re offering a lot of homes at the same time — we can have a big impact,” says Wronske, who

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ROCKING EAGLE ROCK: Kevin Wronske and his sustainable townhouse interiors —CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11

PHOTOS AND RENDERINGS: By Ilsa Setziol and courtesy of the Heyday Partnership

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PRESERVATIONISTS EVERYWHERE BREATHE A SIGH OF RELIEF WHEN HOMEOWNERS EMBRACE THEIR ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES, OPTING TO ADAPT THEM TO CURRENT NEEDS RATHER THAN TEAR THEM DOWN AND START OVER, AN APPROACH SO POPULAR IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. IT’S A SUSTAINABLE CHOICE AND THE ONE MADE BY OWNERS OF A CONTEMPORARY GEM IN THE SAN GABRIEL FOOTHILLS, WHICH WON AN AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AWARD IN 1990. THE COUPLE APPROACHED LOS ANGELES ARCHITECT BARTON PHELPS WITH THEIR DESIRE TO ADD AN OFFICE SUITE TO THEIR 5,000-SQUAREFOOT HOME. THE ELEGANT TWO-STORY RESIDENCE, DESIGNED BY THE INFLUENTIAL FIRM OF BUFF & HENSMAN IN 1984, WAS CREATED FOR CLIENTS INSPIRED BY LE CORBUSIER BUILDINGS THEY HAD SEEN IN PARIS. Opposite page: A Japanese-style door opens onto an office addition and light-filled balcony. Near right: A striking marble table anchors the wife’s office space. Far right: Light spilling onto an interior garden travels through windows in the floor.

Indeed, the dynamic arrangement of the structure’s white rectangular volumes does bring to mind the work of the French modernist master. Organized by strong vertical and horizontal axes, the U-shaped structure wraps around an interior courtyard featuring Japanese rock gardens and profuse plantings. An elevated walkway continues straight through the house, extending into the backyard and over the swimming pool until it ends at a sculpture wall at the rear of the property. Inside is a soaring two-story living room shaped by clean white walls, warm oak flooring and rift-sawn oak cabinetry. Vast quantities of glass and numerous skylights admit plentiful natural light. While grand in scale, the effect, notes the current owner, is “simple, serene, with a Japanese sensibility.” After living in the home for a few years, the owners decided to add an extensive office suite. Maintaining the home’s serenity and respecting its original architecture were high priorities, so they brought in a firm known for sensitive updates of important buildings — Barton Phelps & Associates. In addition to a nationwide portfolio of private homes, Phelps is responsible for the renovation of UCLA’s historic Royce Hall, as well as the expansions of Frank Gehry’s Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and Richard Neutra’s University Elementary School at UCLA. —CONTINUED ON PAGE 18 ARROYO ~ SEPTEMBER 2009 ~ 17

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The assignment called for his-and-hers offices, plus a combined office/kitchenette for an assistant, a bath and substantial additional storage and bookshelves. Whereas the original plan provided for a second-floor office/library in an open loft above the living room, the owners wanted rooms that could be closed off from the rest of the house — quiet and private, yet easily accessible. As it became clear that the logical place for the addition was above the garage and adjacent rooms, another objective emerged — maintaining the natural lighting of the first floor. Fortunately, as Phelps notes, “The manipulation of daylight was pivotal to my training with the master, [the prominent late architect] Charles Moore.” To transmit light previously admitted through skylights, Phelps located a small Japanese garden at the center of the new wing. With its walls opened on three sides, the garden bounces light from a large skylight through windows in its floor to the downstairs bath and hallway. Featuring a bronze Han figure, plantings and river rocks, the garden brings a serene sensibility to the new wing. As the wife and owner acknowledges, “Instead of an insurmountable problem, Phelps seized this challenge as an opportunity to innovate.” The garden is flanked by two commodious offices connected by the assistant’s office/kitchenette. While the wife’s office is anchored by a marble conference table and a fireplace, the husband’s space has a meeting table by a window and a comfortable sofa for casual confabs. Both offices feature skylights and varied ceiling levels and are completely wired for upto-date computer networking. To create a seamless join to the rest of the house, Phelps employed many of the same materials seen elsewhere in the home. The extensive built-in shelving, cabinetry and desks are of rift-sawn oak. The flooring matches the original, the windows are framed like the originals and hardware is repeated. “Most people don’t know this is an addition,” the owner says. Because Phelps is interested in how a building interacts with its surroundings, he used the addition as an opportunity to improve the home’s relationship to the outdoors. Where the original plan heavily Large windows in one of the new offices fill the room with natural light. favored views to the pool and rear gardens, Phelps accentuated views to the front courtyard. The wife’s pieces, Phelps created a dramatic recessed niche above the fireplace, lit by a office surrenders most of one wall to floor-to-ceiling windows that open onto skylight, and cantilevered a pair of wooden shelves to support the sculptures. courtyard views and an outdoor balcony that leads to a stunning Zen rock The office addition not only adds substantial space, it completes the origgarden on the roof of the garage. inal Buff & Hensman composition. Without expanding the home’s footprint, To complement the owners’ Asian art collection and echo a living-room the new wing strengthens the sense of enclosure around the entry courtyard table fashioned from a Japanese door, Phelps integrated a replica at the entry and provides comfortable, yet separate, work quarters. “This is the part of the of the new wing, copying the hardware from a Tonsu chest and hiding its house we live in the most,” the wife says. “Barton gave us a seamless addition sliding hardware behind a soffit. The wife wanted to feature a pair of bronze — and yet it is distinctively his, with his genius and flair.” AM Han Dynasty horses above her bluestone office fireplace. To highlight these 18 ~ SEPTEMBER 2009 ~ ARROYO

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This page: Four views of Buff, Smith & Hensman’s Moseley Residence in Pasadena, 1999

The firm of Buff & Hensman was launched in 1952 and soon went on to participate in the prestigious Case Study House program, a midcentury experiment in residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine. Like other Case Study architects, such as Richard Neutra and Pierre Koenig, Buff and Hensman were partial to simple post-and-beam construction, which called for glass walls and capacious floor plans. Producing an impressive body of work during their long partnership, the pair contributed to the innovative and transformative architectural styles that defined 1960s cool — low, flat homes that were easy to get around, with all the most current technologies and materials. They designed homes for many of the era’s reigning celebrities, including the Governor’s Mansion for Ronald Reagan and private residences for James Garner, Steve McQueen, Frank Sinatra and Jay Ward, the animator of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Overall, they designed and built more than 300 homes throughout Southern California, including 44 projects in Pasadena — condominiums, an office building and a restaurant among them. Along the way, they collected more than 40 awards from the AIA. Beyond the numbers and accolades, Buff and Hensman were, in essence, the postwar counterparts of Pasadena’s Arts & Crafts Movement icons Greene and Greene. Dennis Smith, who heads the firm’s current configuration of Buff, Smith & Hensman, which moved to Pasadena in 1988, says, “The roots are from Greene and Greene, and that means craftsmanship and caring.” That Pasadena is topped only by Malibu as home to 38 ~ SEPTEMBER 2009 ~ ARROYO

the most award-winning Buff & Hensman designs telegraphs the number of upscale patrons. As Smith notes, “Pasadena was where the action was.” The duo gave the California dream of easy living an ideal architectural setting. Thomas A. Heinz, a Chicago architect who worked with Buff & Hensman, still marvels at their strong connection. “The fact that they even found each other is remarkable,” he says. “They were so in sync with each other, not exactly mind readers, but when one started an idea, the other caught on immediately. They were two peas in a very tight pod.” Heinz recalls their ability to sketch an exterior design on one piece of paper at the same time, one of them drawing upside down. Starting out after World War II, they created simple affordable homes for returning servicemen. Open floor plans, the use of natural materials and broad expanses of glass became their distinctive trademarks. “A place for everything and everything in its place” seems to have been the motto they adopted early, and it served them well — so well in fact that they were one of the few design firms asked to design more than one Case Study House (they also designed No. 28). The Saul Bass Residence, a.k.a. Case Study House No. 20, built in 1958, is the iconic example of their early work. Arts & Architecture magazine wrote of the Altadena home, “Although drawings, models and photographs partially convey the quality and nature of architecture, its reality lies in the direct experience of the observer and his emotional and intellectual reaction to space and its defining forms.” This is exactly where Buff and Hensman excelled. Classic post-and-beam construction and the San Gabriel Valley’s ideal climate made it possible for them to develop wood-frame and glass-panel

PHOTO: © J. Paul Getty Trust. Used with permission. Julius Sherman Photography Archive, Research Library at the Getty Research Institute (2004.R.10)

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PHOTOS: Moseley Residence by Alex Moseley

At right: Buff, Straub & Hensman’s Case Study House No. 20 (Altadena, Calif.): rear exterior, 1958, by Julius Shulman

architecture that melded effortlessly with its surroundings, inviting nature in, gently encouraging residents outside. From 1958 until 1963, the firm was known as Buff, Straub & Hensman. During that period, the partnership included Calvin Straub, who, like his colleagues, taught at USC. Straub eventually relocated to Arizona to pursue his own design interests, and the firm was again reduced to two principals. Around that time, Smith, a student of all three men at USC, joined the firm and stayed for more than three decades, eventually landing the critical role of partner in 1988. “In the early days we did everything: interior design, furnishings, even landscape work,” Smith says. “Buff liked to work in the studio whereas Don was a people person.” Heinz says they used to frequent The Chronicle Restaurant, Pasadena’s well-known old-school steak joint, which closed in 1996. They would organize luncheons, “inviting friends and clients to meet on the last Friday of the month” so they could get to know each other. Smith recalls that Hensman would often nurture his crew on construction sites. “He used to make gallons of soup and serve the contractors.” Some original clients still reside in their Buff & Hensman homes decades after they were built, a testament to the livability of their designs. When the energy crisis hit in the 1970s, the state instituted new building regulations and, like many of their peers, Buff and Hensman adopted a new style that foreshadowed the green movement. “Part of it was sheer boredom with post-and-beam, but a good deal was due to the energy crunch,” Buff wrote in the 2005 monograph Buff & Hensman, published by Princeton

Architectural Press. “We had to learn to use glass only where it was meaningful to the inhabitants. We sought greater mass in our buildings, making them easier to heat and cool, and we wanted a look of strength.” The King Residence, completed in 1979 in the Arroyo Seco, displays the firm’s craftsmanship at its peak when it came to site, landscape, building and furniture design. Recently designated a historic monument by the City of Pasadena, the house has furniture and hardware handcrafted by Buff himself. A collection of low-lying pavilions, the residence is constructed with redwood, stucco and quarry tile and rocks found on site. The house rests on a dramatic plot abutting the creek, below the massive Colorado Street Bridge. The Kings have stipulated that after their passing, the house will be donated to USC, following the fate of the Gamble House and its current affiliation with the university. Smith hopes the King Residence will eventually become a Buff & Hensman archive in homage to the men who helped bring about the Southern California lifestyle. Also concerned with preservation is Smith, who focuses the firm’s current practice on restoration. “I want to be identified with that era, movement and style of architecture,” he says. These days, Smith spends much of his time overseeing structural and cosmetic changes needed to return a remodeled Buff & Hensman home to its original state. “I’m bringing the old works back seamlessly,” says Smith, who took over the firm after Hensman retired in 1997, eight years after Buff ’s death. He also updates some of the older designs, sometimes making rooms larger to accommodate the needs of 21st-century families or —CONTINUED ON PAGE 40 ARROYO ~ SEPTEMBER 2009 ~ 39

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At right: Buff, Straub & Hensman’s Case Study House No. 20 (Altadena, Calif.): rear exterior, 1958, by Julius Shulman

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LAST OF THE SUMMER DIVE-INS Sept. 4 — The Langham, Huntington Hotel & Spa bids good-bye to summer with a final installment of its Friday night “Dive-In Movie” series. Hotel guests can relax by the pool or on The Terrace patio and watch a family-friendly movie on a giant screen. The event offers pool floaties for the kids and food and beverages from the pool bar. Jonas Brothers: The Concert Experience starts at 8 p.m. The Langham, Huntington Hotel & Spa is located at 1401 S. Oak Knoll Ave., Pasadena. Call (626) 568-3900 or visit pasadena.langhamhotels.com.

LIONEL RICHIE HONORED ALL NIGHT LONG Sept. 12 — The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) will honor singer/songwriter Lionel Richie with its Award of Excellence during the organization’s 31st annual television special, “An Evening of Stars,” which will be taped at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Richie will be recognized for his career achievements and support for minority education. The two-hour musical tribute will feature a variety of artists performing songs Richie made famous and will be televised nationwide in January, 2010. Tickets cost $100 and are available at ticketmaster.com. The Pasadena Civic Auditorium is located at 300 E. Green St., Pasadena. For information, visit uncf.org/aeos.

HERITAGE SQUARE MUSEUM TURNS THE BIG 4-0 Sept. 12 — The Heritage Square Museum in Los Angeles celebrates four decades of promoting and preserving Southern California’s heritage, cultural diversity and architecture with a fundraiser at the historic San Antonio Winery in Lincoln Heights from 1:30 to 5 p.m. The event includes winery tours and costumed docents. Tickets cost $125. The San Antonio Winery is located at 737 Lamar St., Los Angeles. Call (323) 225-2700 or visit heritagesquare.org.

CAROL RAISES CHANNING THE ROOF IN ALTADENA Sept. 6 — Broadway icon Carol Channing visits the Altadena Community Church for a special unplugged performance of “Carol Channing Raises the Roof” to benefit the church’s roof repair fund. The 7 p.m. concert includes a preview of her new gospel CD, For Heaven’s Sake, as well as her signature tunes like Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend and Hello, Dolly! Adult tickets range in price from $35 to $125 for VIP seating, which includes a reception with Channing; tickets for children ages 13 and under cost $10. The Altadena Community Church is located at 943 E. Altadena Dr., Altadena. Call (626) 395-9923 or visit altadenaucc.org.

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PROMINENT ARTISTS COLLABORATE ON AIDS GALA Sept. 13 — Bold-faced names from the art, literary and entertainment worlds pitch in to help with “Art Out of the Box,” a gala benefiting the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance’s (GAIA) campaign to provide care for people with HIV/AIDS in Malawi. Martin Puryear, Alison Saar, Joel-Peter Witkin and Kenton Nelson will turn cigar boxes into artworks for auction. Rainn Wilson and Jane Kaczmarek will emcee the event, which includes an address by author Anne Lamott and runs from 4 to 7 p.m. Tickets cost $250 and are available at thegaia.org. The Bistro 45 Restaurant is located at 45 S. Mentor Ave., Pasadena. For information, visit thegaia.org.

Sept. 17 — The Vans Warped Tour celebrates its 15th anniversary with a special theatrical event at 8 p.m., which will be screened locally at AMC Santa Anita 16 & IMAX. The two-hour movie will feature the best performances from the L.A. leg of the tour, to be recorded Sept. 6 at the Nokia Theatre. Performers are scheduled to include Bad Religion, Katy Perry and Ozomatli. Tickets will be available at the theater box office. The AMC Santa Anita 16 & IMAX is located at 400 S. Baldwin Ave., Arcadia. Call (888) AMC-4FUN. For information, visit warpedtour.com

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RAISING GLASSES FOR GOOD CAUSES IN LA CAÑADA Sept. 20 — A festival showcasing more than 90 wines and dishes from 20 local restaurants and caterers tempts taste buds at Memorial Park from 2 to 5 p.m. A wine auction follows from 5 to 6 p.m. The event, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of La Cañada, the La Cañada Flintridge Educational Endowment Foundation and the La Cañada Chamber of Commerce, benefits Skid Row’s Midnight Mission, the Habitat for Humanity and literacy, arts and health programs for children and youth. Tickets cost $55 in advance, $65 at the door. Memorial Park is located at 1301 Foothill Blvd., La Cañada Flintridge. Call (310) 770-6384 or visit lacanadakiwanis.org.

LISA SEE AND HARRY BRANT CHANDLER AT THE AUTRY Sept. 20 — Los Angeles novelist Lisa See speaks to the Autry National Center of the American West Book Club about her latest work, Shanghai Girls, which explores the Chinese experience in Los Angeles and Hollywood during the anti-Communist mania of the 1950s. In 2000, See curated an exhibition for the Autry — On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience — which traveled to the Smithsonian Institution the following year. She also helped develop the Autry’s interactive Family Discovery Gallery. The event runs from 2 to 4 p.m. Club dues are $10 per year, on top of the Autry mem-

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HATHAWAY-SYCAMORES HONORS SUPPORTERS AT ANNUAL BENEFIT Sept. 24 — Hathaway-Sycamores Child and Family Services hosts its annual “Celebrating Children” benefit from 6 to 8 p.m. at a private Pasadena home overlooking the Arroyo Seco. The evening honors supporters Ardella and Bill Horsfall, who co-chaired the group’s centennial celebration in 2002. Ardella Horsfall also chaired the Board of Directors that year. The celebration includes a cocktail reception and a performance by the Hathaway-Sycamores Children’s Grief & Loss Choir, a group of youngsters from South Los Angeles who are receiving counseling for the loss of a family member. Tickets start at $75 per person. To purchase tickets or an ad, call (626) 395-7100. For information, visit hathaway-sycamores.org. AM

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Here comes back to school, racing toward me like two freight trains, one having left Cincinnati at 6:36 a.m. at a speed of 55 mph, the other from Omaha at 4:55 p.m. at a speed of 36 mph. Summer is definitely over. No more adventures. No more sleeping in. No more ice bottom — I even subjected myself to Radio Disney for several years. No sacrifice

cream three times a day. Even if you don’t have school-

is too great for the health and happiness of my family. (Have you heard the new Jonas Brothers song? They’re so dreamy!)

age kids, you will no doubt notice a sudden lack of

But despite all my efforts, they still groan when breakfast time arrives. The only thing that has ever really worked is the because-I-said-so offense. I’m sure they think

squirrely teens hanging about. For the rest of the year,

that “the most important meal” is just an advertising ploy perpetuated by the egg board. (This is probably because I am constantly telling them that everything is an advertising

you will get run over by skateboarders only after 3 p.m.

ploy.) But breakfast really is important. If you don’t eat breakfast, you will be starving at lunch and more likely to eat whatever is in front of you…which is usually red-hot

This is excellent news for the ladies-who-lunch crowd. When I was a kid, I loved back to school. I would spend August poring over

Funyuns and blue Powerade. I just can’t let that happen. So, after many years, I have finally embraced my nagging. I drone on and on and on about eating breakfast because:

the extra-thick fall fashion magazines to create the perfect first-day-of-school out-

I am mother, hear me roar.

fit, which usually involved something in wool plaid. When the day finally arrived,

I need healthy people to take care of me in my old age.

after spending a fair amount of time with the curling iron perfecting my feathers, I

I have spent too many mornings in public school classrooms. As a

would ride my bike to school in fog, which would burn off by third period into 80-

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degree weather. By lunch, I was a flat-haired, sticky, sweaty mess.

California,” I see the morning demeanor of kids all over L.A. My classes

Now I love being grown up.

are the first activity of the day, and my first question is “Who had break-

These days, I am always sad to see summer end. I like my kids way more

fast?” The number is always low, and after an hour, it is clear that the

when they’re out of school, and I really enjoy our lazy summer mornings, hanging around the house in our PJs and leisurely preparing for the day. It is nothing like our mornings now, when our kitchen is more like a NASCAR pit stop than the

kids who didn’t are out of gas. Parents would be astonished if they saw the performance (or lack thereof) of their breakfastless kids. According to the California Department of Public Health, there is a clear cor-

heart of the home. Lunches here, lunches there, buses to catch, car pools to

relation between breakfast and behavioral, emotional and academic achievement.

meet, don’t forget your PE clothes and blah blah blah.

Kids who skip breakfast have lower test scores, visit the nurse more often and

But I have to nag. If I don’t, they won’t eat breakfast. Why they resist this

have more discipline problems. Adults who skip breakfast are more likely to be a

most important of meals, I will never know. Personally, I think it’s the best meal of

pain in the neck. Plus, eating breakfast is one of the easiest ways to keep weight

the day. If I could, I would have breakfast for lunch and dinner too. (And some-

in check, lower cholesterol and avoid hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Why

times I do.)

would anyone skip it?

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LASER HAIR REMOVAL

CO2 RESURFACING

ACNE TREATMENTS LASER FOR RED & BROWN SPOTS AFFIRM LASER (FOR ANTI-AGING, SKIN TIGHTENING)

FRAXEL (NON-ABLATIVE RESURFACING)

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