On March 21st from 5 to 7 pm, Vancouver’s Inform Interiors is hosting a book launch and presentation of Eppich House, The Story of An Arthur Erickson Masterwork II. The presentation will begin at approximately 6pm at the store’s in our 50 Water Street Showroom.
Eppich House II
Eppich House II tells the story, through stunning images and Arthur Erickson?s own words, of how a unique collaboration with ?dream clients? resulted in Erickson?s most striking residence. It?s a daring experiment that embodies Erickson?s West Coast modernist ideas about site, material, and form. His first steel residence explores both the structural and aesthetic possibilities of the material, with curved beams, dyed cladding, and milled furnishings designed with Francisco Kripacz?features that would normally be impossible to achieve in residential design. But after seeing the first Eppich House, built for Hugo?s twin brother Helmut, Hugo entrusted Erickson with creating and furnishing the entire house, inside and out?another first for Erickson?and made available the Eppich brothers? Ebco steel fabricating plants, which built virtually every component of the home. The book also expands on the interior design, landscaping, modern art by Egon Eppich, and extraordinary achievements of the Eppichs. The house is described in the Foreword as ?An episode in Pacific Northwest architectural glamour? by Michelangelo Sabatino (Dean of the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Tech...