Portland interior designer Max Humphrey s new book,Â
Modern Americana, shows how the old can be new.
By
Reina Harwood
4/13/2021 at 12:46pm
Portland interior designer Max Humphrey has a special eye when it comes to thrifting. He plays around with funky vintage patterns and shapes from subway tiles to brick & mortar styles. To him, vintage shopping is all about a thrill of the hunt mindset.
On April 20, Humphreyâalong with author Chase Reynolds Ewald and photographer (and frequent
PoMo contributor) Christopher Dibbleâare releasingÂ
Modern Americana (Gibbs Smith, 2021), a new design book highlighting Humphrey s interior design projects from Bend to the Oregon Coast. Ahead of the book s launch, we talked to Humphrey and mined his brain for design tips. When it comes to incorporating style and shopping vintage, he says it s 99% about confidence.â Â
Red Rice
Makes 4–6 servings
This recipe for the Low Country classic was inspired by the erudite Damon Lee Fowler, culinary historian and cookbook author from Savannah and a keeper of old southern culinary traditions. This tomato pilau is one of the greatest dishes ever to emerge from the Low Country and can be adjusted depending on your tastes. This recipe was published in Fowler’s The Savannah Cookbook, published in 2008 by Gibbs Smith, and is included here by permission.
Ingredients
1 medium onion, trimmed, split lengthwise, peeled, and chopped
1 medium green bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, and chopped 1 cup long-grain rice, washed and drained
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From thrifted to high-end, DIY style drives Portland designer Max Humphrey’s ‘Modern Americana’ book
Updated Mar 05, 2021;
Posted Mar 04, 2021
“Modern Americana” by Max Humphrey with Chase Reynolds Ewald encourages DIYers to paint old furniture, shop their basement or Dumpster dive to create a timeless Americana decor that lets you kick up your heels.Christopher Dibble
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Max Humphrey gets it. We don’t want our do-it-yourself home projects to look less than professional, but we also don’t want to live in a perfectly staged magazine spread. The Portland interior designer’s rooms are – you can’t avoid the word – “homey.”
Henry H. Gutterson, Supervising Architect of St. Francis Wood Truthful to the many styles and variation of styles as reflects the people of California.
by Richard Brandi, Copyright 2007 Henry H. Gutterson, Supervising Architect of St. Francis Wood -
The career of San Francisco architect Henry Gutterson spans the first half of the 20th Century. Beginning in 1905, when he graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of California Berkeley to his death in 1954, Gutterson s 50-year career most closely relates to the Beaux-Arts, Bay Area Arts and Crafts, and Academic Eclecticism periods. He attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts but was also influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement and he became one of the acknowledged practitioners of the early Bay Area Style. What set Gutterson and other young architects in the Bay Area style apart from others in the U.S. was, the peculiar way of using historical forms and details, the complexity of forms and spaces, miniaturizati