It wasn't clear whether we would be able to join the home tours today as a snafu with the buses caused scheduling problems. All of the tours were sold out before noon today, but we able to join the V.I.P. tour at the last minute. It would have been a shame to miss this one featuring the homes of Lorcan O'Herlihy, Ron Radziner and Steven Ehrlich (we got to see the inside today after checking out the street view on Friday).

Lots more as you continue...

Reference: CA Boom - Day 2 (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom - Day 1 (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom Opens! (L+L)
Reference: CA Boom: A Festival of Contemporary Design (L+L)
Link: CA Boom

After checking in for the tours we took a quick spin past the Quinze & Milan exhibit to check it out... we were getting around to it, MoCo ;-).

Quinze & Milan furnishings were used extensively throughout the lounge areas at CA Boom, mostly the foam cube poufs and duo chairs with a few lounges, all of which were quite comfy and surprisingly firm and resilient. The interior of the Airstream featured the beautiful glass works of esque and intriguing beeswax and digital print paintings of Amy Ruppel.

Having spent a lot of time in the exhibit areas the last few days, we moved on to the Home Tour.

A quick note before we get into the homes... we could easily do a full feature on each of the houses we toured this weekend. Since there is just not the space in these reports we have used the text provided by CA Boom as a brief overview.

All of the houses we toured were fabulous, but we had a particular fondness for the home of Steven Ehrlich. Without any further ado, the homes...

Home of Architect Steven Ehrlich
The 700 Palms residence addresses the freedoms and constraints of residential design in Venice: maximizing volume, light and privacy on a narrow lot, sensitivity to scale and context, the use of raw, honest materials appropriate to the grittiness of the Venice environment. North African courtyard houses have influenced this homes' design whereby the inner world of privacy integrates into and is adjacent to the active neighborhood community.

This house can transform itself through the dissolution of barriers between indoors and outdoors via huge sliding and pivoting doors. External shades; radiant heat, no air conditioning and recycled materials reinforce the homes' sustainability.

Home of Architect Lorcan O'Herlihy
This 2300 square foot residence diverges from the pre-established response to front and back yards by balanced articulation of the skin on all faces in the vertical direction. A simple material - cement board - has been innovatively used in conjunction with three types of glazing. This allows a powerful commentary on surface manipulation, defining architecture through the envelope of a volume rather than through the volume itself.

Home of Architect Ron Radziner
Responding to the surrounding context and lot sizes in Venice, the 2,700 square-foot Glencoe residence is a stepped two-story house designed for an architect's family. Exterior connections between the ground floor living areas flanked by a garden running the length of the narrow lot maximize the available land.
(Photos were not allowed within the property, so the bottom two photos are from the Marmol Radziner website where more images may also be found.)

And last, but not least, we were able to obtain some images of the exterior of the Scarpa residence which we toured yesterday. Too bad we don't have any interior shots, because the house is spectacular.

As we mentioned previously, we will follow up tomorrow with a recap of the event.