A friend recently told me to run, not walk, to the Museum of Modern Art  in New York to see the Henri Matisse Cut-Outs exhibition. It was on my agenda, but there always seemed to be other priorities. I stopped making excuses and finally took the time to see the exhibit complete with its audio component.  It was spectacular!!

A number of years ago I was fortunate enough to take a tour of the Saarinen House at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI. It was one of those extraordinary experiences in visual imagery that, even to this day, continues to factor into my design thinking. Actually, I wanted to move in to the house so that I could study the countless rich details, the palette, materials and texture of the house Saarinen built for himself and his family on the campus of Cranbrook. It is quite possibly one of the most significant houses built during the 1920s.