Spring is coming and with it the highly anticipated Street of Eames modern home tour. If you missed Thursdays Oregonian feature  in the Homes and Garden section on the Street of Eames tour happening April 18th here is a link. http://www.oregonlive.com/hg/index.ssf/2009/02/the_street_of_eames_tour_revis.html . The tour features 6 architecturally significant homes in the Portland area.  Tickets went on sale Monday morning at 10:00 am and promptly sold out within the hour. The highlight this year will be a John Yeon home.  A lifelong resident of Portland, Mr. Yeon’s best-known work was the 1937 Watzek house, a wooden, pitched-roof house whose design exploited dramatic views of Mount Hood. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the shingled dwelling contrasted the machine-tooled look of the International style and helped define NW modern regionalism. Designs for the house were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in 1939.

Mr. Yeon also specialized in the design of museum installations and was responsible for the interior design of galleries at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., the Fagan galleries in the Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco and the Asian galleries in the Portland Art Museum.

To find out more info on this years tour and see photos of this years featured properties and from tours past check out the website at http://www.streetofeames.org/. Hope to see you in April!