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            <author>Janis@MarinModern.com (Janis Peterson)</author>
            <title>Moviemaker George Lucas Transforms San Anselmo's Miracle Mile and Amazing Grace Music store</title>
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Thank you George Lucas for your community spirit and generosity! 

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For everyone who travels the Miracle Mile every day, you can't help but
admire the handsome stone building across from United Market, now home to
Amazing Grace Music.  George Lucas, who
lives nearby, rescued Amazing Grace from their dilapidated 1936 building,
purchased the property, and set in motion a major renovation of the median that
separates east and west traffic on the Miracle Mile.  Not only di... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:47:24 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>San Rafael's West End Neighborhood Beautification Project Goes Wild</title>
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It's a Poppy Palooza on the West End Street in San
Rafael.  West End Street is travelled every
day by West End neighbors as they merge onto 2nd Street headed to
downtown or 101 and where the Ali Akabar College of Music is located. This is
also a favorite route for bike riders.

 



Several years ago, the median was overgrown with weeds and a
real eyesore in the neighborhood.  As
part of our mission, the West End Neighborhood Association voted to take this
on as a beautificati... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 17:30:56 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>Janis@MarinModern.com (Janis Peterson)</author>
            <title>San Rafael Resident with a Lifetime of Stories</title>
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If you're looking for a guide to the
West End and San Rafael or a personal history of the Great Depression and World
War Two, or maybe a unique garden tour, a musical evening, just the right screw
for that broken door hinge or perhaps just some fatherly advice, then all roads
should lead you to Stan Kosta's home on a quiet cul-de-sac above the Miracle Mile.



Stan,
who turned 93 last year, has lived in his two-bedroom house since he bought it
for $10,000 in 1948, bargaining wit... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:11:25 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>Lisa@MarinModern.com (Lisa Mallon)</author>
            <title>The Definitive Source of All Marin Real Estate Blogs</title>
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While there is certainly an abundance (arguably, too many) of real estate blogs in Marin County, our Modern Blog offers a depth and balance of interesting, highly relevant and informative topics that I’ve yet to see in any other.  Admittedly, I am biased as a regular contributor of the Marin Modern Real Estate blog but I do read an array of other blogs specific to Marin County Real Estate on a weekly basis.

We are a highly experienced and technology savvy group of sales professionals, each ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:04:44 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>robertleeper7@yahoo.com (Robert Leeper)</author>
            <title>An Italian Villa's Garden &amp; Modernism - Presentation at the Tiburon-Belvedere Library this week!</title>
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And now for something completely different . . . An Italian villa's garden!  

You may be asking why I would suddenly depart from mid-century modernism to talk about a garden that was started in the 1400s. Well, mid century modernism never would have happened without gardens like this one. Here are three reasons why I am dicussing this garden.First, I am going to be giving a slideshow presentation about the garden at Villa Gamberaia (outside of Florence, Italy) on Thursday, October 7th at 7:30... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 08:57:41 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>robertleeper7@yahoo.com (Robert Leeper)</author>
            <title>Case Study: Eichler Landscaping - the Atrium &amp; Courtyard</title>
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This is a continuation of a previous blog, where I wrote about landscape ideas for an Eichler home in Marin. Last time, we focused on the front. And now, on to the courtyard!
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One the most important exterior parts of many mid-century modern house is the courtyard space. Not every home has a courtyard, of course, and some have atriums, which is generally an indoor space.
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 Wiki had this to say about courtyards:
&quot;Courtyards&mdash;private open spaces surrounded by walls... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:53:21 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>robertleeper7@yahoo.com (Robert Leeper)</author>
            <title>Eichler House Landscape - A Case Study</title>
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Whenever people ask me, &quot;How do you figure out what to do?&quot;, my first response is, &quot;I don't really know, it's mostly intuitive at this point.&quot; But the reality is that there is a whole lot of theory, education, travel, exposure, reading and practice that goes into how any designer comes up with ideas of what to do with a property.


From my education - at LSU, in Baton Rouge - we were taught that the design comes from 3 places: first, the style of the home (no sense goin... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:08:57 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>robertleeper7@yahoo.com (Robert Leeper)</author>
            <title>Heroes of Modern Landscape Design: Roberto Burle Marx</title>
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Robert Burle Marx holds a special place in the development of modernism in the field of landscape architecture. Often times in books - and in my professor's history courses - he was set apart from others of the same period. In Elizabeth Rogers' book, Landscape Design, she gives him his own sub-chapter: Roberto Burle Marx and the Garden as Abstract Art.


Wikipedia says:



&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Roberto Burle Marx in Brazil combined the International Style and native Brazilian plants a... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 08:47:23 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>robertleeper7@yahoo.com (Robert Leeper)</author>
            <title>Heroes of Modern Landscape Design</title>
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The first thing I thought about writing for this blog was a brief history of landscape design during the Mid-Century Modern period. Whenever I need to learn - or refresh my learning - about landscape design, I turn to Elizabeth Barlow Rogers' encyclopedic masterpiece, Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History. If it isn't in there, it hasn't happened yet! And even though her website says it took her ten years to write, I secretly think it must have taken twenty - this book weighs a... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 20:46:01 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>Renee@MarinModern.com (Renee Adelmann)</author>
            <title>Robert Leeper Landscape Designer &amp; Guest Blogger at Marin Modern</title>
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I'm delighted to announce that Robert Leeper, an established &amp;&nbsp;hip landscape designer, has joined our popular Marin real estate blog as a contributing editor for all things landscape and landscape design related.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;


Robert is the founder of Robert Leeper Designs, an award-winning landscape design firm he established in Austin Texas and subsequently expanded to address the needs of&nbsp;his growing&nbsp;clients base throughout the&nbsp;United States.&amp;nb... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 22:25:03 -0500</pubDate>
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