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Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction QUOTES

Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction QUOTES

1 " Bathrooms that traded mirrors for glass walls invited prurience on occasion, but they also drew the inhabitant's gaze away from himself toward an increasingly threatened nature. "

― , Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

2 " Gifford presented the house to Bonaguidi as a series of 'telescopic' spaces in the landscape, and his inspiration hints at the atmosphere in the Pines at this time. A telescope is a device often used for spying: it elongates when engaged in order to capture objects in its gaze. "

― , Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction

3 " Gifford's early homes were delicately situated into the landscape, their rooflines arcing just above the trees. His tower houses were less self-consciously beautiful and more demanding, echoing tumult both personal and societal. The gables, hips, and arcs of Gifford's early confections gave way to a more abstract vocabulary that relied exclusively upon flat and shed roofs. Scale became intentionally ambiguous, as his influences veered toward monumental sources. "

― , Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction