On The Move
October 2026
This month, I found inspiration at a desk. Frank Lloyd Wright’s desk, to be exact, in his studio at Taliesin West. When Wright first established the property in the Arizona desert, it was essentially a camp (Who knew!), no running water, electricity or even conventional roofs or windows. Those came over time. The vision came first: architecture that settled into the landscape rather than simply sitting on it.
I’ve been fortunate to experience a number of Wright properties, and they never fail to create a sense of calm. Maybe it’s his relationship with each landscape and setting. Maybe it’s his mastery of proportion. Or maybe there’s a little architectural Jedi mind trick at work. Whatever it is, you feel the intention behind the design.
And then I came home to experience another kind of architectural treat. I had the opportunity to host Jennifer Buenrostro’s listing at 1070 Harriet St in Palo Alto; a 1973 Eichler (Oakland architect), original owner, meticulously maintained, and thoughtfully updated over the decades. And then there’s the still-operating retractable roof bringing surprise and delight – a reminder of what great architecture can do.
Different expressions of modernism, different places, different eras but both reminded me how much I love discovering the thinking behind a structure, not just looking at the finished product.
See more of Taliesin West @ Instagram.
– Lisa
On The Move is a curated mix of what’s inspiring me lately, what’s shifting in the market, and what might just shift your perspective or inspire you too.
– Vincent van Gogh
Cities… and billionaires… seem to have come back down to earth when it comes to statement architecture. Rising costs, sustainability concerns and a growing preference for buildings that respond to their surroundings have cooled the appetite for the splashy, signature projects that once turned architects into celebrities. If Ma Yansong’s fantastical Lucas Museum of Narrative Art does mark the end of the starchitect era, statement architecture is going out with one very otherworldly bang.
Photo Credit: Hufton Crow/courtesy Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Curtain Call
You’ve moved into the new house only to discover you have 27 windows and not a curtain among them?!?!?
If becoming an expert in pleats, linings, rods and Roman shades isn’t how you want to spend your remaining brain space, AD has done the homework, testing custom window-treatment services on everything from process and price to installation.
Read more @ Architectural Digest
Photo Credit: Laure Joliet
Does Staging Have a Season?
As the days get shorter, buyers are more likely to experience a home in lower natural light, or even after dark. Suddenly the warmth of a bulb matters more, a beautifully lit living room may carry more weight, and curb appeal includes what a house looks like when the porch lights are on. City Lights, in analyzing 4 years of Google Trends data, found that interest in home lighting is nearly 30% higher in fall than summer, with searches for “warm lighting” jumping almost 56%. It made me wonder: if the way we experience a home changes with the season, shouldn’t some of our staging decisions change with it?
And a small milestone behind how I found City Lights report, or how it found me. City Lights discovered my site and reached out with the research. Websites, much like real estate businesses, don’t become discoverable overnight, so after 18 months of steadily building my site, I’ll admit I was pretty thrilled to know it’s beginning to find its way beyond my network. And, you know I am particularly fond of new intel in areas I’ve never really thought about before!
Read the full report @ CityLightsSF
Photo credit: City Lights
RM X SFMOMA Exhibition
I can’t say I know a BTS song, although, with the wind blowing just right earlier this year, I did hear pretty much their entire concert at Stanford from my backyard!
But BTS member RM’s (no idea what the R and M stand for!)approach to collecting art got my attention. There’s something pretty cool about building a personal collection with a public dimension in mind from the start—and using your influence to bring more people, perhaps an entirely new audience, into museums along the way. ~200works from his collection will be shown at SFMOMA alongside pieces from the museum’s own collection.
Photo Credit: SFMOMA
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