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• Architect Carl Abbott: House Tour, Talk, Reception and Book Signing

  • When
    Sunday, January 17, 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Butterfield House, 101 Ogden Lane, Sarasota, FL 34242
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  • Registered
    54 registrants

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  Discover the creative world of Carl Abbott – the highly awarded Florida architect discusses his process in designing one of his exciting new projects here in Sarasota.
  
  Carl’s designs have a timeless quality. He is strongly informed by his experiences of the sacred Architecture of the ancient Egyptians and Maya – the manner in which their designs respond to the land and to the movement of the sun and stars. He feels strongly that Architecture and Nature shape our lives.
  
  At Yale in the ‘60s, Carl studied under Paul Rudolph then worked in the Pacific Islands and Caribbean, in New York with I.M. Pei, and in London as an original member of TEAM 4 with Norman Foster and Richard Rogers. He then opened his firm in Sarasota, becoming part of the Sarasota School of Architecture.
  
  Abbott is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and one of the most highly awarded architects in the Florida Caribbean Region receiving the Medal of Honor for Design, the Architectural Firm
  Honor Award and the greatest number of Test of Time Awards given for “buildings of enduring quality and significance”.
  
  “Carl has a boundless enthusiasm to share his passion for Architecture.” – Lord Norman Foster
  

  Join SAF for an exclusive house tour of the newly completed Butterfield House followed by Carl Abbott in conversation with Harold Bubil. Including a wine and cheese reception with remarks by record architect Leonardo Lunardi and contractor Pat Ball.
  
  Carl Abbott served as the honorary chairman of the second annual SarasotaMOD architecture festival celebrating Paul Rudolph in November 2015 and is a member of the Sarasota Architectural Foundation advisory board. Visit CarlAbbott.com
  
  Harold Bubil is the Herald-Tribune real estate editor and winner of AIA-Florida's Bob Graham Architectural Awareness Award.
  
  Event proceeds benefit the 2016 SAF - Paul Rudolph Scholarship Fund.
  
  Thank you to homeowners Leslie Butterfield and Steve Sadoskas for generously opening their home for this special fundraising event.

  Limited seating, advance reservations recommended.
  
  $30 SAF Member
  $40 Public
  $15 Student

  3:00 to 4:15 pm House Tour
  4:15 to 4:30 pm Introductions
  4:30 to 5:15 pm Carl Abbott Talk with Harold Bubil
  5:15 to 6:30 pm Q & A, Sunset Wine and Cheese Reception

  Carl Abbott's book "IN/FORMED BY THE LAND" will be available for purchase and book signing.
  
  Questions: 941-364-2199, [email protected]
  

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• SAF Annual Members Meeting

  • When
    Monday, February 01, 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    South Gate Community House, 3145 South Gate Circle, Sarasota FL 34239

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  Monday, February 1, 2025
  5:30 to 7:30 pm
  South Gate Community House
  3145 South Gate Circle
  Sarasota FL 34239
  
  SAF members are invited to our annual meeting for a 2015 Year in Review and plans for 2016. Volunteer for SAF committees - event planning; grant writing; publicity; membership. Wine and snacks reception.

  Thank you to our hosts! The South Gate Community House, designed by Sarasota School architect Victor Lundy in 1956, is now being restored and maintained by the non profit organization Foundation for the Preservation of Victor Lundy's South Gate Community House.
  
  SAF Members Free - RSVP Online
  
  Not a member? Join SAF online or at the meeting: Annual Dues $50 Individual; $90 Family (2 people); $35 Student. Visit SAF-SRQ.org/membership

  Questions? [email protected]
  

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• Film: Gray Matters - Eileen Gray Documentary

  • When
    Tuesday, February 09, 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Ringling College of Art + Design, Academic Center Auditorium, 2699 Old Bradenton Road, Sarasota, FL 34234
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  The Sarasota premier of the documentary "Gray Matters" examines the life of Eileen Gray, whose work in furniture, interior design and architecture was aptly described as a "rolling experiment through the decades."
  
  Director Marco Orsini filmed interviews with the foremost Gray scholars, museum curators and collectors and takes us on location to Paris, London, New York, Richmond, Munich, Dublin and along the French Riviera. Including stunning interior footage filmed of the newly restored Villa E-1027, the film is an historical, scholarly and cinematic investigation of the career of one of the most influential but least known modernist icons.

  Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Chelsea Bruner, Interior Design Historian, Ringling College of Art + Design

  “To create, one must first question everything.” – Eileen Gray
  

  Ringling College of Art + Design
  Academic Center Auditorium
  2699 Old Bradenton Road
  Sarasota, FL 34234

  SAF Members $10
  Public $15
  Students Free, full-time with ID
  

  5:00 – 5:30 pm Check-in
  5:30 – 5:45 pm Introductions
  5:45 – 7:00 pm Film Screening
  7:00 – 8:00 pm Discussion, Reception
  
  Thank You Ringling College of Art + Design for providing tonight's venue.
  

  Questions: 941-364-2199 or [email protected]

  Click to download the Ringling College Campus Map.
  
  

  Gray Matters "Teaser" from Marco Antonio Orsini on Vimeo.

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