The Rural Modernist: Rose House

Can you imagine what a travesty it would be if it were torn down and replaced with a faux Tuscan McMansion? Ew. The Rose House and Pavilion is one of the most significant modern houses in the Chicagoland area and was featured in the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" when Cameron kicked his father's Ferarri through the glass curtain wall. The house is currently for sale and inquiries have been made to significantly alter the house or demolish it. The house is featured on Landmarks Illinois 2009/2010 Chicagoland Watch List, as a threatened historic structure. For more information, visit Landmarks.org.

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I launched my first blog, Doodle Whore in 2006 as a repository for my doodles and observations on popular culture (OK, mainly Britney, cough cough).

But I also have a passion for antiquing, flea marketing, interiors, art, crafts, music, food, and architecture which I wanted to blab about, but it really didn't fit in with my trashy Doodle Whore oeuvre. I'm a voracious reader of design blogs and shelter mags, but I find that many are simply too girly, too decorator-y, too serious, or just too perfect for me. If I have to read one more story about Hollywood Regency slipper chairs or floral abstract poppy patterned tea towels I'll barf.

So here I give you my perspective as The Rural Modernist: an illustrator and greeting card peddler living two hours north of New York City in the Catskills with his boyfriend and dogs, listening to The Smiths and Madonna while rearranging the furniture, surfing the net, scavenging through barns and tag sales, watching bad t.v., and keeping the bears out of the bird feeder.

Yours truly, The Rural Modernist

Remember that cool modern house in Ferris Bueller's Day Off?

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