Apr 17, 2017
Host George
Smart reports from February's
Modernism Week in Palm Springs, the Mecca for all things
Mid-Century Modernist! He spoke poolside from the Hotel
Skylark with keynote speakers from the amazing annual
event.
Bill Earls is the author of The Harvard Five in New
Canaan, Modernist houses by Breuer, Gores, Johansen, Johnson, and Noyes. A virtual tour
of thirty-five landmark houses, 1947-1966, that elicited strong
reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still
astonishing today.
Devon Chivvis is a writer, director, and producer of
narrative and documentary television and film with a passion for
visual storytelling. Since 2003, she has produced, written, and
directed documentary and narrative television and film for a
variety of clients such as Nat Geo Channel and Travel Channel.
She's working on a documentary on the Harvard Five architects with
Bill Earls.
Bert Simonis is the producer of Quiet
Elegance, a documentary on Palm Springs architect Hugh Kaptur. Originally
from Amsterdam, Simonis' other documentaries include The Last
First Comic, an award-winning film chronicling the start of
stand-up comedy in the burlesque industry; Mid-Century
Moderns: The Homes That Define Palm Springs; 88 Days in the
Mother Lode: Mark Twain Finds His Voice; and The Neon
Struggle.