Bob Plunket Highlights Tour of Homes

Bob Plunket discusses the Modern Tour of Homes on ABC 7.
The tour is this Sunday from 11am to 4 pm.

Please see attached link for Bob's wonderful piece about this Tour of Homes and others in the Sarasota area.

http://www.mysuncoast.com/global/video/flash/popupplayer.asp?vt1=v&clipFormat=flv&clipId1=4590775&at1=News&rnd=21034252

42nd Street on Modern Tour of Homes

This Sunday from 11am to 4pm please join us for one of Modern Sarasota's fabulous tours of the modern homes of Sarasota. $5.00 a per person and students are free! All proceeds benefit the Habitat for Humanity.

Please see the link below for more information. Hope to see you there.

ttp://archive.constantcontact.com/fs033/1102386899522/archive/1103136596918.html

Longboat Key Garden Club Tour of Homes

This Saturday March 6th from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. the Longboat Key Garden Club is hosting a Tour of Homes. Seibert Architects is pleased to have one of our firm's projects featured 0n this tour. For more information please contact Sarah Tate at 941-383-0117. Cost is $15 for members and $20 for the public.

The Murphy Residence is an extensive renovation project that converted an inward focused courtyard house to a pavilion-like space taking full advantage of the courtyard and adjacent waterway.

The rich palette of materials used answered the owner's desire for a warm sophisticated yet comfortable ambiance. Developing the interior design along with the architecture by incorporating the materials, finishes, detailing and eventually furnishing into the architectural concept gives the home a unified and cohesive feel.

Visit the Cohen House this Sunday

This Sunday, June 21st you have the opportunity to visit one of the iconic Sarasota School of Architecture homes located on Siesta Key at 101 Garden Lane, Sarasota, 34242.

The Cohen house was designed by Paul Rudolph in 1955 for Sarasota's Mayor. The Cohen house was recently featured in book Modern America Houses, Fifty Years of Design in Architectural Record. Seibert Architects was also recently award the AIA Award of Merit for the Cohen house.

The Cohen house is currently for sale at $1.1 million, you could own a piece of architectural history. For more information on the Cohen house please call Martie Leiberman at 941-724-1118.

A Classic Time Piece

Photographs by Matt McCourtney

The T.H. Mitchell House by Seibert Architects is recognized in the article

"The Once and Future House"

from the Style Magazine A Magazine of the Herald-Tribune March 2009

By Marty Fugate

The article walks you through the home, detailing every encounter and the man accountable for it - with always having a great story to tell behind every piece.

"The lines are clean and the materials honest; a simple, rectilinear geometry of glass, white Ocala block and white fir post and beams."

"New Owner Michael Cichon is the man responsible. An avid art collector and art dealer, he's equally in love with the art of yesterday and today. Ancient tribal masks and figures bump shoulders with contemporary paintings, photographs and sculptures. It all looks great in this timeless house."

Cichon had purchased the house in 2003 with ambitions of restoring a lost civilization's timepiece.

"Cichon got to work, 'I took a utility blade to the rug...' Cichon kept working, but not alone. Architect Sam Holladay, AIA at Seibert Architects coordinated the restoration"

"For Cichon, it's the perfect house. There's 1560 square feet of interior space and 940 square feet of patio space, but it's all the house he needs. Nothing needs to be added, nothing could be taken away without hurting it. And that's how he defines perfection."

Cichon continues to say,

"Keep it honest - nothing fake. It's a good policy for architecture, and a good policy for life."

Junior League Holiday Tour of Homes

For those of you getting into the Holiday spirit, why not take a tour of one of Seibert Architect's projects decorated for the holiday season?

The Rupp/Seibert house is part of the Junior League of Sarasota's 31st Holiday Tour of Homes (604 42nd Street).

Starting Friday December 7 at 10a.m. and 4 p.m. and Saturday December 8th at 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Tickets are $25.00 at the door of the home tours.

Other homes included on the tour: Ella Sulla Westerman Tenant House, 1716 Oak St.; Dr. Walter Kennedy House, 1876 Oak St.; Pearsall/Van Helden House, 1905 Alta Vista St., Sarasota.

Happy Holidays to Everyone.