: About Me

I have written for a variety of national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Interior Design, Robb Report, Traditional Home, Modernism Magazine, Home Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, Woman's Day, Country Home, Latitudes and Coastal Living. I am a frequent contributor to the Home & Design section of The Miami Herald, Sandow Media's Luxe magazines, and the Florida Design publications. I am also a contributing editor to Modern Luxury's MIAMI and Manhattan magazines. My European/Asian credits include Residence Magazine (The Netherlands), Casamica (Italy), Style: Living (Singapore) and Architectural Digest in Austria and Germany. With one book to my credit, Big Home, Big Challenge: Design Solutions for Larger Spaces, a second book, Four Florida Moderns, will be released by W.W. Norton & Co. in October 2009. My ezine, www.DesignCommotion.com, surveys everything dynamic in the field of design. I am also a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors.

Home & Garden > Architecture The architecture of John L. Volk

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Though AutoCAD and IntelliCAD have changed how architects work and store their ideas, preserving traditional, unwieldy plans is no small feat when an architect has been blessed with a long and successful career. John L. Volk, who completed over 2,000 commissions during a career that spanned six decades, is one of these prolific draftsmen, and his wife, Lillian Jane, believes it's the artistry with which he approached each project that made him one of the premier architects in Palm Beach from the 1920s to the early 1980s. For doubting Thomases, she can easily prove her claims by foraging th...

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